The IDM x Onassis ONX Speaker Series presents Tori Lawrence + Co

The IDM x Onassis ONX Speaker Series is thrilled to present Tori Lawrence + Co

Tori Lawrence + Co. is a collaborative group of artists and educators working with dance, sound, architecture, and film in nontraditional and immersive site-specific processes. They create cinematic live performances that become shaped by the audience’s associative relationships with their surrounding environment – exploring how spectator intervention/immersion into a performative world can positively affect the emotional connection between spectator, site, and performer. They recode, skew, and upcycle outmoded environments as a means to branch into fantastical worlds of possibility – to move beyond the assumed properties of place and inscribed movement pathways. Their talk will explore how they develop and utilize scores of movement, sound, and design for site-based making and teaching.

TL+Co. has adapted their interdisciplinary practice into a pedagogical framework where participating students gain experience in performing site-specific work as it relates to the camera. Students then live score and foley the silent dance film on stage. These courses have been held at Middlebury College, Keene State College, Drexel University, and Franklin & Marshall College.

TL+Co.’s most notable project is the site-adaptive dance & sound performance JUNKSPACE. The performance, where audience and performer are intermingled and journey through sites together, has been adapted for a large variety of spaces including the Brooklyn Army Terminal, an outmoded factory in Philadelphia, a farm in Sweden, historic theaters in Philadelphia and Oregon, and an abandoned parking lot in Holyoke (MA).

The company most recently installed SJØRADIO (Sea Radio) working over the course of a year at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder and USF Verftet, Norway. SJØRADIO is climate research through handmade instruments, FM radio, film, and live performance.

TL+Co. has been commissioned by The Barnes Foundation and Philadelphia Dance Projects. They have presented work at Dock11, Movement Research at Judson Church, Links Hall, Counterpulse, Joe Goode Annex, Chez Bushwick, SCDT, and Dance Films Association. They have had residencies at Brunakra (Sweden), Yaddo (NY), Playa (OR), Ucross (WY), Chez Bushwick (NYC), Djerassi (CA), Charlotte Street Foundation (MO), Volland Foundation (KS), Dance Ireland, and Budapest's Workshop Foundation.

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This event is free of charge, but guests outside NYU must RSVP via this Eventbrite. Information about building access will be distributed to registered guests before the event.

For more information about the event and the IDM x Onassis ONX speaker series, please visit our site: https://idmnyu.github.io/ONX2026/

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