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Rosa Weinberg is a design educator and artist based in Massachusetts.



CREATIVE PRACTICE

Attunement
Shimmer
Digital Polished
Breathing
Love is About
Anna’s Delight
Stethosuit
(more)

TEACHING

Beaver Centered Design
Extraordinary Ordinary
User-Centered Design
Juxtapose
Intro to Architecture
Easing Cerebral Palsy
Neighborhood Marvels
(more)

misc.

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Breathing

2017

ROLE

Designer and fabricator

COLLABORATORS

Heidi Latsky, Jubil Khan

MATERIALS + METHODS

Cotton, corrugated plastic, elastic string

PERFORMANCES

ON DISPLAY at the Whitney Museum of Art and Lincoln Center Outdoors

Since 2016, high school students at NuVu Studio have collaborated with Heidi Latsky Dance, a physically integrated dance company (meaning some dancers have disabilities and some do not), through a series of studios called Juxtapose. In these studios, students work closely with dancers to create sculptural wearables for a live sculpture court called ON DISPLAY. This collaboration has greatly affected my creative practice, opening me up to the creative and artistic space of design for dance.

This sculptural wearable was designed for Heidi Latsky and worn by dancer Jubil Khan. Breathing exercises are integral to MARS (mindful activation release study), the training method Latsky developed. This project came out of conversations with Heidi Latksy about the expansion of ribs during deep breathing exercise. The mechanism of the “ribs” was inspired by the breakage of ligament linkages in my knee.

The project began during a residency at Pioneer Works Tech Lab in June of 2017. This third iteration was created for a performance at the Whitney Museum of Art which commemorated the 27th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Breathing

2017

ROLE

Designer and fabricator

COLLABORATORS

Heidi Latsky, Jubil Khan

MATERIALS + METHODS

Cotton, corrugated plastic, elastic string

PERFORMANCES

ON DISPLAY at the Whitney Museum of Art and Lincoln Center Outdoors

Since 2016, high school students at NuVu Studio have collaborated with Heidi Latsky Dance, a physically integrated dance company (meaning some dancers have disabilities and some do not), through a series of studios called Juxtapose. In these studios, students work closely with dancers to create sculptural wearables for a live sculpture court called ON DISPLAY. This collaboration has greatly affected my creative practice, opening me up to the creative and artistic space of design for dance.

This sculptural wearable was designed for Heidi Latsky and worn by dancer Jubil Khan. Breathing exercises are integral to MARS (mindful activation release study), the training method Latsky developed. This project came out of conversations with Heidi Latksy about the expansion of ribs during deep breathing exercise. The mechanism of the “ribs” was inspired by the breakage of ligament linkages in my knee.

The project began during a residency at Pioneer Works Tech Lab in June of 2017. This third iteration was created for a performance at the Whitney Museum of Art which commemorated the 27th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.