Movement Research FALL Festival 2009 December 3-5-2009 [Thu-Sat] at 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) Festival Pass: $36 for three days Festival Pass: Movement Research, one of the world's leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms, returns to Danspace Project with its annual FALL Festival. The festival focuses on improvisation, combining three evenings of shared performances by acclaimed experimentalists highlighting and juxtaposing their varied investigations into the artistic currents of the form. Festival events will examine the inheritance of improvisation as a contemporary experimental dance practice/performance form. In addition to the performances at Danspace Project, the FALL Festival will feature classes and workshops taught by Festival participants November 30th through December 5th. THURSDAY December 3 2009, 8:00 PM Dance Gives Drama, hosted by Neal Medlyn Performances by: Johanna Constantine, MGM Grand, Dynasty Handbag, Stanley Love, Melanie Maar and Kenta Nagai, and more FRIDAY December 4 2009, 8:00 PM When Worlds Collide, hosted by The Factress (Lucy Sexton) Performances by: The Naked Lady (Anne Iobst), Big Art Group, Douglas Dunn, David Neumann, Okwui Okpokwasili with Peter Bornand, and more SATURDAY December 5 2009, 8:00 PM Ishmael Houston-Jones? Messies: Dance Shouts at the World hosted by Ishmael Houston-Jones Performances by: Monstah Black, Christine Elmo, Jack Ferver, Aki Sasamoto and Arturo Vidich, Layard Thompson, and more Carol Mullins is the lighting designer for the Festival.