Madeline Hollander is an American artist, choreographer, and dancer, living and working in New York City.
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Madeline Hollander's work explores the evolution of human body movement and the intersection between choreography and visual art.
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Madeline Hollander was born in 1986 in Los Angeles, California.
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Madeline Hollander trained with Yvonne Mounsey while growing up in Los Angeles and she danced professionally with the Los Angeles Ballet and with Angel Corella's Barcelona Ballet.
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Madeline Hollander received a Bachelor's Associates degree from Barnard College of Columbia University in 2008 and attended the MFA program at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts from 2016 to 2019.
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Madeline Hollander's work investigates the body's ability to communicate and respond within the limits of everyday systems.
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Since 2013, Hollander has been adding to Gesture Archive, a longitudinal research project surveying expressive human movement in all its variety.
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Madeline Hollander uses performance and dance to communicate how the space in contemporary art can be experienced rather than the space being simply a reaction to the art object.
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Madeline Hollander participated in Helsinki Contemporary's, "Future Delay", a show curated by New York-based Amanda Schmitt, where she, Pearla Pigao, and Hans Rosenstrom were commissioned to explore the future potential of technological immortality.
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Madeline Hollander consistently seeks inspiration by drawing her choreography's vocabulary from varied sources such as the interaction of interface design ; sports referee gestures ; and building evacuation procedures.