SPLICE Festival VII 2026 Workshop 1
Friday March 6, 2026
10:00-11:30pm EDT
Studio 1, Colby College
Alexandra Berger & Allen Fogelsanger
InterTranslation : Movement < = > Sound
An embodied movement workshop focusing on physical movement interacting with electronic sound, led collaboratively by Alexandra Berger and Allen Fogelsanger. Participants, both dancers and musicians, will create movement that visualizes, converses with, opposes, and ignores electronic noise provided by Fogelsanger, while also exploring making movement collaboratively within compositional structures. While some very limited access to the noise-making instruments may be provided, this workshop is primarily about movement. Dialogue will be facilitated as a means of processing the experience, gaining a better understanding and comfort level in collaborative partnerships.
Bios
Working as A-B/F Movement/Sound Collective since August, 2024, Berger (movement) & Fogelsanger (sound) practice collaborative real-time movement/sound composition. They work as a duo, as well as with invited additional collaborators. They have composed work at GreenSpace in Queens, New York University in Manhattan, and most recently at the inaugural Global Performance & Sound Lab gathering hosted by Rutgers University at Newark & New York University.
Alexandra Berger has danced professionally in NYC since completing her BFA at The New School in 2003. Throughout her career as a freelancer she has danced for and with many artists and choreographers, including Merce Cunningham (RUG 2007) and Douglas Dunn. Seeking a world beyond dance, Alexandra earned her MSW from Fordham GSS in 2023 and is licensed in New York State. With a broad spectrum of interests, she is most drawn to our shared human experience. Together, Dance and Social Work provide her with overlapping frameworks with which to understand the world. She continues to investigate how the arts can intersect with other fields to improve our systems for a healthier and more inclusive society.
Allen Fogelsanger makes music for dances, videos and installations; teaches courses on dance and music; and accompanies dance classes. His work, alone and as part of multimedia performances and projects, has been presented in the Americas, Europe and Australia, including at the Bourges Festival of Electroacoustic Music and Festival Synthèse, the Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, the Cloud Dance Festival (London), the Boston Cyberarts Festival, il Corpo nel Suono (Rome), the global telematic festival Earth Day Art Model, and the New York City Electronic Music Festival. He teaches in the NYU Tisch Dance Department.