MeMoSa | Things We Move, Things That Move Us by Adrienne Westwood
Performer in the image above: Katherine Paola De La Cruz
Adrienne Westwood presents: MeMoSa | Things We Move, Things That Move Us
Thursday, November 19, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Doors open at 6:00 PM. The event starts at 6:30 PM.
The Movement Lab at Barnard College | Milstein Center LL020, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Adrienne Westwood shares elements of her practice and experiments from her Summer 2026 residency in the Barnard Movement Lab. Over the summer, Westwood explored two projects integrating the dancing body with new media and technology: robot sensorium (working title), an intimate duet for two performers, scavenged materials, and eventually, two human-scale industrial robots; and MIGRATION PATTERNS, a collaboration with composer and violinist Mari Kimura that uses Kimura's MUGIC® motion sensors to explore the relationship between movement and sound.
Part artist talk and skill share, part work-in-progress showing, and part hands-on participatory experiment, this MeMoSa invites audiences into Westwood's creative process. She will be joined by collaborators and performers Nikki Cologne and Katherine Paola De La Cruz, and technologist and production designer Seth Easter. Across both projects, Westwood and her collaborators Westwood explore how technology can extend the expressive possibilities of the dancing body, and how movement, objects and machines might enter into unexpected relationships.
This work was developed, in part, with support from NYSCA Support for Artists and The Puffin Foundation, with residency support from Barnard Movement Lab and as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s subsidized space use opportunity, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts.
To visit, please RSVP at least 24 hours before the event. Visitors with Barnard/Columbia IDs can walk in.
Portrait by Murry Hall
Adrienne Westwood is a Brooklyn-based dance artist whose multi-layered work incorporates objects, materials, media, and technology into embodied explorations of memory, bringing traces of other times and places into the present moment. Her work has been presented widely in NYC and at Jacob's Pillow, CCN–Ballet de Lorraine (France), WUK (Vienna), Firkin Crane (Ireland), ODC Theater (San Francisco), and the Philly Fringe.
Her most recent work, [ ], created in radical collaboration with composer Angélica Negrón, was named a “Must-See” by Dance Magazine and premiered in October 2026 at Target Margin Theater in Brooklyn, following a multi-year development process that included a Summer 2023 residency in the Barnard Movement Lab. Recent support includes BRICLab, NYSCA Support for Artists, the Puffin Foundation, The Jew Jewish Culture Fellowship, and residencies at SLIPPAGE Lab at Northwestern University (directed by Prof. Thomas DeFrantz) and Harvestworks. Her work has been called “a finely crafted progression” (Lisa Kraus, The Philadelphia Inquirer) and noted for its “precision, attention to detail and unspecific but tangible sense of the barely remembered” (Andy Horwitz, Culturebot).
Adrienne was a 2023 Lead Artist at Mercury Store for box/truck, returning in 2026 to develop MIGRATION PATTERNS. She created s o u n d i n g line for Snug Harbor's historic Gardener's Cottage through the CUNY Dance Initiative and developed Record (2012) with support from BAX's pilot Parent-Artist Space Grant.
She co-organizes the ongoing Caremaking zine (caremaking.org) and peer pressure, an artist support initiative at Mercury Store. She has taught at the University of the Arts and Florida State University's FSU in NYC program, and served on the Bessies selection committee from 2011–2018. She is past recipient of The Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center and holds a BFA from UNCSA and an MFA from Hollins University/American Dance Festival, where she studied under the mentorship of Donna Faye Burchfield.