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  • AuditionRhizomeMTyler2.jpg
    AuditionRhizomeMTyler2.jpg
    The Audition is a musing on the mechanisms of show biz. It is a part of a larger work-in-progress,"The Audition and The Program." An object based score, "The Program," is in development. It will invite the audience to join in a selection of movement based analyses of the first act ~ "The Audition." photo by Madonna Tyler LeBlanc.
  • Move Move Collaborative 2019 excerpt 2
    The Move Move Collaborative is an annual ten-day movement intensive. People come from all over North America and Europe to make an evening length performance using consensus based decision making. I founded this project in 2017. It is now much bigger than I. There is a group of five people who are meeting to organize the fourth annual gathering in June 2020. This excerpt is a full group moment from our 2019 gathering. The piece involved twelve dancers, five musicians, and was seen by more than seventy people.
  • PROP 2 in Baltimore
    The second installment in the PROP series is shown here in its Baltimore premier. More than thirty people participated in this performance. One aspect of my artistic research looks at how cultures transmit movement to the people that are part of them. I look at objects like books, and I see dances. As Ulises Carrion pointed out in 1975, the shape of a book and how it moves are important and separate from the text. These tools shape how the people that use them move. The PROP series is a set of objects that hold dances that dancers hold. There are six installments in this series to date: two books, three broadsides, and one newspaper.
  • digitaltextPROP2.pdf
    This is what the participants of PROP 2 see. It is the text inside the book.

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About Peter

Baltimore City
Peter Redgrave is an interdisciplinary performing artist and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. In his solo work, he explores vulnerability and the direct energetic exchange between performer and audience. In collaborative work he values the complex and deep connection of consensus. He cut his performing teeth in 1990’s Chicago in performative bands like Mother Country Death Rattle, 2X4, and Smelling Salt Amusements. 

Since 2010 he has trained with… more

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Move Move Collaborative

The Move Move Collaborative is a ten day movement intensive where artists come to Baltimore, MD to train together, eat together, and perform together. It is an intentionally diverse group in terms of race, gender, sexuality and movement styles. All creative decisions are made by consensus. We see consensus as an inherently radical community-building tool, ripe for shaping meaningful experiences for performers and audience alike. It is powerful work listening and being in dialogue with other artists about all the aspects of a performance. The trust and presence that arises out of the experience is transformative.


I founded Move Move Collaborative in 2017. It has grown to become an annual movement intensive dedicated to working in a temporary ensemble to create work none of us could make alone. Three different ensembles have gathered for ten days in June and created three different pieces that hold different modes of movement. We have trained with butoh, clowning, contact improvisation, interdisciplinary modes, site-specific techniques, choreographed musical phrases, voice work, philosophical texts, poppin' and lockin', spontaneaous composition, and many more. 
  • Move Move Collaborative 2019 excerpt 2
    The Move Move Collaborative is an annual ten-day movement intensive. People come from all over North America and Europe to make an evening length performance using consensus based decision making. I founded this project in 2017. It is now much bigger than I. There is a group of five people who are meeting to organize the fourth annual gathering in June 2020. This excerpt is a full group moment from our 2019 gathering. The piece involved twelve dancers, five musicians, and was seen by more than seventy people.
  • Move Move Collaborative 2019 2 min Excerpt
    In 2019, we included a section in the performance that was composed of small group improvisations. Talbolt Johnson, Elise Knudson, and Cristal Sabbagh are featured here, in a section that highlights all the Move Move Collaborative aspires to do: connect people of diverse backgrounds and movement styles in evocative performance.
  • Move Move Collaborative 2018 2 minute cut
    In 2018, nine people worked to create a 45 minute performance. We had a musical number, a group butoh section, connections between mark making, sound, and movement, as well as improvised sections.
  • Move Move Collaborative 2017
    In our inaugural gathering, we housed and fed five people (Cristal Sabbagh, Anna Thompson, Taylor Knight, Elise Knudson, and Jongwoon Kim) from along the east coast and Chicago as we created two nights of provocative dance performance. A total of ten movement artists were involved in creating the two scores. We did different pieces each night. The video is an excerpt for the first night.
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    • PROP 1

    The first in the PROP Series. 
    Inspired by Ulises Carrion's seminal essay "The New Art of Making Books" from 1975, The PROP series sets out to highlight how every book we have ever held included a dance, a score for movement. This dance is embedded in the way we hold and manipulate the pages of a book. I set out to highlight this acculturation, by making a book that held a dance that a dancer must hold.

    PROP 1 is a hand made book. Outside of a short introduction, all the text and illustrations are hand drawn. The cover is embossed. It is a sensual object, a little black book dance about self love. 

    It has been performed in Amsterdam and Baltimore by Peter Redgrave, in Oakland, California by Jonah Kagan, and in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan by Miki Bantjes.
    • PROP 1 in Baltimore
      Peter Redgrave presents the piece that began the PROP series. After an encounter with Ulises Carrion's seminal essay, The New Art of Making Books, Redgrave set out to make a book that held a dance that a dancer could hold - a PROP! After this work, a series has followed, but this is PROP 1.
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    PROP 2

    PROP 2 is a group dance. This little red book contains an invitation to dance together in celebration of the moment.
    • PROP 2 in Baltimore
      The second installment in the PROP series is shown here in its Baltimore premier. More than thirty people participated in this performance. One aspect of my artistic research looks at how cultures transmit movement to the people that are part of them. I look at objects like books, and I see dances. As Ulises Carrion pointed out in 1975, the shape of a book and how it moves are important and separate from the text. These tools shape how the people that use them move. The PROP series is a set of objects that hold dances that dancers hold. There are six installments in this series to date: two books, three broadsides, and one newspaper.
    • PROP 2 in Saskatoon
      This performance of PROP 2 was filmed on February 24th, 2019 in the Frances Morrison Library in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. The entire performance lasted 10 minutes
    • PROP 2 in Oakland
      PROP 2 is performed here at Temescal Art Center in Oakland, California on December 20th, 2018.
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    • PROP 6

    PROP 6 is a duet in the form of newspapers.
    Each performer writes six short scores, instructions for dances, onto panels of a 36" X 24" piece of newsprint paper. The paper is folded into eight sections. One has the title, PROP 6, and one is blank, then there are the six scores each on their own section of the paper.
    The first act of the dance is for each performer to give the object they have written, PROP 6, to the other performer. Each performer now has a set of six scores and one blank page, that designates they are ready to end, at their disposal. There are two performers with different scores. The overarching score is for each performer to dance either the score that they choose from their own paper, or read over the shoulder of the other performer and do theirs.
    I have performed this piece twice. Once in Oakland, California with Jane Selna, and once in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with Kyle Syverson.   
    • PROP 6 in Saskatoon
      PROP 6 is a duet performed here by Kyle Syverson and Peter Redgrave. This performance was filmed on February 24th, 2019 in the Frances Morrison Library in Saskatoon, SK, Canada. The entire performance lasted 11 minutes.
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    The Audition

     The Audition is a Work-in-Progress. It is the first act of an upcoming interdisciplinary performance piece by Peter Redgrave with the working title, "The Audition and The Program."
    Developed out of research into the history of the American entertainment industry, this work explores the male assertion of power and the desire to perform. The second act, which is currently in development, will be a book based score called "The Program." It will invite the audience to examine the role of advertising as they play with a response to act one.

    Stay tuned...
    • AuditionRhizomeMTyler2.jpg
      AuditionRhizomeMTyler2.jpg
      The Audition is a musing on the mechanisms of show biz. It is a part of a larger work-in-progress,"The Audition and The Program." An object based score, "The Program," is in development. It will invite the audience to join in a selection of movement based analyses of the first act ~ "The Audition." photo by Madonna Tyler LeBlanc.
    • The Audition: The Stand
      The Audition is musing on the mecanics of show biz. In this short excerpt, the performer is transfixed by the object of his desire to perform, the mic stand. He prepares himself as he approaches, only to lose his nerve.
    • The Audition: Nasal Penetration
      The Audition explores the mechanics of show biz. In this clip, the performer resorts to a brazen yet absurd strategy to exert his power over the object of his desire. It is on this act that the bumbling amateur turns predatory tool of the patriarchy. The homogenization machine has churned his desire to serve its own. The second section of this piece is a book that contains a score for the group to analyze the audition and determine how the performer can be re-positioned.
    • Act 1 The Audition at Dance H0L0 June 2019
      This is the complete presentation of The Audition as it was in June 2019 at Dance H0L0 in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC. The Audition is a Work-in-Progress. It is the first act of an upcoming Interdisciplinary piece with the working title, The Audition and The Program. Stay tuned... The Audition is Act 1. The second act is in development. It will be The Program, a score embedded in a book that invites the audience to participate in an analysis and response to the first act.
    • The Audition: Show Biz
      The Audition is a one person show exploring the entertainment machine. This clip is the closing. After working his way from the chairs to the mic stand a number of times, our amateur finally belts it out. The Audition is the first section of a diptych. The second section, "The Program" is still in development.
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