It's up! I finally have a real website to call my own. Check it out at ashleyfm.com. 

Also, I've been excited to have a few pieces come out in the last couple of months. 

My article on Rachid Ouramdane's "Far..."…

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Ever wonder how online instruction in higher education is going to impact dance? Might teaching composition courses online add a layer of richness on top of physical practice? Perhaps, so long as administrations don't reduce our course content to online instruction.



In MOOCing?, a new composition that I am working on for UC Berkeley students, I will choreograph and set a dance remotely. Of course distance collaboration is nothing new to the arts, but under the heading of "online… Continue

Erin Jonhson and I are working on a new piece called "Bobinetting" for the ZERO1 Biennial in San Jose this January. More information to come soon, but until then: 

Bobinetting is the contemporary appropriation of an anachronistic feminist device. In 1832 French ballerina Marie Taglioni dawned the first tutu to dance the ballet La Sylphide. The tutu is made of tulle, light fabric that consists of strong hexagonal stitching. The light and strong makeup of the…

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I recently found an old program from my 2008 piece, "the blank." It's interesting to look back and realize how many of the concepts that I had at the earliest stages of my creative and academic development still resonate with my work today. I will upload a short video of highlights from "the blank." later today. For now, I thought I'd share the program text. 

the blank. 

Choreographed by Ashley Ferro-Murray

April 4-5, 2008

Cornell…

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I am looking forward to participating as a HASTAC scholar this year. I will be blogging about various performance/dance and technology events at UC Berkeley and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out my blog!

 

Also, I am beginning work on a new piece. Stay tuned as I develop this new work that will draw upon technologies of various eras of art, innovation, and intervention: 1930s, 1960s, 1990s, and today.…

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This Friday, December 11 at 6pm PST



"Fragment 3" is the third fragment in a process-based series that choreographer Ashley Ferro-Murray has been working on since Fall 2008.



Exploring the space between digital spectrality and digital saturation, this piece moves through various networks as it leads an audience through various iterations of digital choreographies. Wireless accelerometers used throughout the choreographic process inspire the conceptual context of this piece.… Continue

Check out this 10 minute compilation video of my 2008 piece, "the blank." This video will be shown at Laura Cull's book launch this coming week. The book is a collection, "Deleuze and Performance" and looks incredibly… Continue

Everyone should check out -empyre- on "Critical Movement Practice" this month. Guests include Stamatia Portanova, Johannes Birringer, Laura Cull, Sarah Drury, Erin Manning, Nora Zuniga Shaw, Stelarc and myself. Click here to join in the discussion!



Below is my introductory post:



Hello everyone! What an exciting opportunity to engage with this

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I am thrilled to take some workshops with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at Berkeley summer. I have been wanting to play with an Arduino Lilypad for some time now and can't wait to get started!



I am curious if anyone knows of some good choreographies that engage this technology?



It seems like projects that work with these and similar technologies are often more focused on musical production. This is particularly… Continue

A New York Times Article on William Kentridge

I've been looking at William Kentridge's work a lot lately and had the opportunity to see an exhibit of his work at SFMoma yesterday. I was blown away by how intricately he treads the line between over stimulation and a delicate and subtle emotionality. His multi-media oeuvre also tends to include a great deal of choreography. Although the exhibition blurb coined Kentridge as someone who looks at painting, drawing, film etc, they didn't notice the implicit gesture toward choreography that… Continue