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Performance

STUDIO WORKS

Join us for our first Studio Works of 2025 with artists kaijo caggins, and Xander Cobb on May 23rd at 7pm.

Studio Works is an informal, works-in-progress series designed for makers of all disciplines creating live work to share new and old work at any stage of development.

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Leah Stein Dance Company

carry with you this place

An iterative deep listening movement-sound practice weaving in personal story, images and metaphor.

More info on our practice and public showings in 2024 coming soon.

pictured left to right: Maddie Hopfield, Kimya Jackson, Shannon Brooks, Josie Smiith. Subcircle residency 2023.

“tiny recollections of alternate lives — remember when living was about losing your virginity and not your mind?????” — @kjocaggins

kaijo caggins is improvising in collaboration with sound curator blair lauren (she/her).
at STUDIO WORKS!

May 23rd, doors at 6:45, show at 7pm.
The Art Room Studio: 2329 S. 3rd St, 2nd Fl — $15 - $35 • pay at door —
no one turned away for lack of funds

Link in bio for full program and accessibility info.

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kaijo caggins @kjocaggins is a Black trans performance artist, educator and doula. they observe improvisation and defiance through pleasure in their performance practices. kaijo works within the body, sounding and disorientation; with an emphasis on queerness, somatics and liberation as life force. they facilitate a queer Contact Improvisation jam + teach CI based classes. Living within land home to the Lenni-Lenape People of Lenapehoking, he is currently in community with local Contact Improvisation dancers, multidisciplinary artists, families and the rivers. kaijo will be pursuing their MA in Women’s, Gender + Sexuality Studies at George Washington University.

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image id: (1) kaijo pictured at the Centre national de la danse in France. (2) in process rehearsal 2025. (3) glitched baby picture of kaijo.

“tiny recollections of alternate lives — remember when living was about losing your virginity and not your mind?????” — @kjocaggins

kaijo caggins is improvising in collaboration with sound curator blair lauren (she/her).
at STUDIO WORKS!

May 23rd, doors at 6:45, show at 7pm.
The Art Room Studio: 2329 S. 3rd St, 2nd Fl — $15 - $35 • pay at door —
no one turned away for lack of funds

Link in bio for full program and accessibility info.

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kaijo caggins @kjocaggins is a Black trans performance artist, educator and doula. they observe improvisation and defiance through pleasure in their performance practices. kaijo works within the body, sounding and disorientation; with an emphasis on queerness, somatics and liberation as life force. they facilitate a queer Contact Improvisation jam + teach CI based classes. Living within land home to the Lenni-Lenape People of Lenapehoking, he is currently in community with local Contact Improvisation dancers, multidisciplinary artists, families and the rivers. kaijo will be pursuing their MA in Women’s, Gender + Sexuality Studies at George Washington University.

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image id: (1) kaijo pictured at the Centre national de la danse in France. (2) in process rehearsal 2025. (3) glitched baby picture of kaijo.

STUIDO WORKS May 23, 2025
Featuring: kaijo caggins and Xander Cobb

Doors at 6:45
Show at 7pm
The Art Room Studio:
2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$15 - $35 • pay at door
no one turned away for lack of funds

We’re so excited to be starting Studio Works again! Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.

Link in bio for full program and accessibility info.

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kaijo caggins @kjocaggins is a Black trans performance artist, educator and doula. they observe improvisation and defiance through pleasure in their performance practices. kaijo works within the body, sounding and disorientation; with an emphasis on queerness, somatics and liberation as life force. they facilitate a queer Contact Improvisation jam + teach CI based classes. Living within land home to the Lenni-Lenape People of Lenapehoking, he is currently in community with local Contact Improvisation dancers, multidisciplinary artists, families and the rivers. kaijo will be pursuing their MA in Women’s, Gender + Sexuality Studies at George Washington University.

Xander @xander_cobb is a choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer. Their pathway to performance entwines competitive ski racing, studies of earth science, a passion for community organizing and a fascination with alchemizing grief. They’ve collaborated and performed with Millie Heckler, Laurel Jenkins and Julian Barnett. Their work has been shown at Burlington City Arts, The Off Center for the Dramatic arts and The Flynn. Their current obsessions include House Dance, asexual aromantic love stories, and applying improvisational dance practices to political organizing strategy. They dream of creating a performance art collective of culture workers, dancers, musicians, poets, sculptors, film makers and designers who collaborate on experimental and accessible works in public spaces.

STUIDO WORKS May 23, 2025
Featuring: kaijo caggins and Xander Cobb

Doors at 6:45
Show at 7pm
The Art Room Studio:
2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$15 - $35 • pay at door
no one turned away for lack of funds

We’re so excited to be starting Studio Works again! Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.

Link in bio for full program and accessibility info.

………………….………………….

kaijo caggins @kjocaggins is a Black trans performance artist, educator and doula. they observe improvisation and defiance through pleasure in their performance practices. kaijo works within the body, sounding and disorientation; with an emphasis on queerness, somatics and liberation as life force. they facilitate a queer Contact Improvisation jam + teach CI based classes. Living within land home to the Lenni-Lenape People of Lenapehoking, he is currently in community with local Contact Improvisation dancers, multidisciplinary artists, families and the rivers. kaijo will be pursuing their MA in Women’s, Gender + Sexuality Studies at George Washington University.

Xander @xander_cobb is a choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer. Their pathway to performance entwines competitive ski racing, studies of earth science, a passion for community organizing and a fascination with alchemizing grief. They’ve collaborated and performed with Millie Heckler, Laurel Jenkins and Julian Barnett. Their work has been shown at Burlington City Arts, The Off Center for the Dramatic arts and The Flynn. Their current obsessions include House Dance, asexual aromantic love stories, and applying improvisational dance practices to political organizing strategy. They dream of creating a performance art collective of culture workers, dancers, musicians, poets, sculptors, film makers and designers who collaborate on experimental and accessible works in public spaces.

Today is the last day to drop-in/RSVP for ReMap: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse @ 6pm with @zavozavito
Link in bio to RSVP/more class info 🌿
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It has been such a pleasure to host zavé martohardjono during their time here in Philly 💚
If you can’t make it today, you can catch zavé’s upcoming performance, ASMR4APOCALYPSE at @voxpopuligallery April 26th!

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Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

ReMAp workshops offer somatic warm ups, deep and quantum listening exercises, shaking practice, and choreographic prompts that explore composting, Deep Time, geology, regenerative natural cycles, and interspecies relationality. Activities include dance, sounding, meditation, writing, small rituals, and group reflections. Research and practices in this workshop draw from Japanese Butoh, Chinese Qi Gong, ecological science, and feminist praxis from the work of Audre Lorde and Pauline Oliveros.

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COST:
$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.
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Artist Bio
zavé martohardjono is a trans, queer, and mixed race (Indonesian and Italian-American) artist, activist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. They make performances, films, and installations, and work as a community organizer. Dance, ritual, and multimedia are primary languages across zavé’s creative practice which engages decolonized memory, queered mythologies, and ecological and somatic intelligence to envision more just futures. For information about their projects, visit zavemartohardjono.com.

Today is the last day to drop-in/RSVP for ReMap: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse @ 6pm with @zavozavito
Link in bio to RSVP/more class info 🌿
.
It has been such a pleasure to host zavé martohardjono during their time here in Philly 💚
If you can’t make it today, you can catch zavé’s upcoming performance, ASMR4APOCALYPSE at @voxpopuligallery April 26th!

………………………..

Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

ReMAp workshops offer somatic warm ups, deep and quantum listening exercises, shaking practice, and choreographic prompts that explore composting, Deep Time, geology, regenerative natural cycles, and interspecies relationality. Activities include dance, sounding, meditation, writing, small rituals, and group reflections. Research and practices in this workshop draw from Japanese Butoh, Chinese Qi Gong, ecological science, and feminist praxis from the work of Audre Lorde and Pauline Oliveros.

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COST:
$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.
………………………..

Artist Bio
zavé martohardjono is a trans, queer, and mixed race (Indonesian and Italian-American) artist, activist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. They make performances, films, and installations, and work as a community organizer. Dance, ritual, and multimedia are primary languages across zavé’s creative practice which engages decolonized memory, queered mythologies, and ecological and somatic intelligence to envision more just futures. For information about their projects, visit zavemartohardjono.com.

ReMAp: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse is back with @zavozavito March 20th 6pm!!! 🌀
RSVP link in bio
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Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

ReMAp workshops offer somatic warm ups, deep and quantum listening exercises, shaking practice, and choreographic prompts that explore composting, Deep Time, geology, regenerative natural cycles, and interspecies relationality. Activities include dance, sounding, meditation, writing, small rituals, and group reflections. Research and practices in this workshop draw from Japanese Butoh, Chinese Qi Gong, ecological science, and feminist praxis from the work of Audre Lorde and Pauline Oliveros.

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Workshop Info:
Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to attend all workshop dates to participate. You can RSVP to hold a spot.

MARCH
Thursday March 20 6-8pm
Saturday March 22 12-2pm
Monday March 24 6-8pm

$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.

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Artist Bio
zavé martohardjono is a trans, queer, and mixed race (Indonesian and Italian-American) artist, activist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. They make performances, films, and installations, and work as a community organizer. Dance, ritual, and multimedia are primary languages across zavé’s creative practice which engages decolonized memory, queered mythologies, and ecological and somatic intelligence to envision more just futures. For information about their projects, visit zavemartohardjono.com.

ReMAp: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse is back with @zavozavito March 20th 6pm!!! 🌀
RSVP link in bio
………………………..

Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

ReMAp workshops offer somatic warm ups, deep and quantum listening exercises, shaking practice, and choreographic prompts that explore composting, Deep Time, geology, regenerative natural cycles, and interspecies relationality. Activities include dance, sounding, meditation, writing, small rituals, and group reflections. Research and practices in this workshop draw from Japanese Butoh, Chinese Qi Gong, ecological science, and feminist praxis from the work of Audre Lorde and Pauline Oliveros.

………………………..

Workshop Info:
Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to attend all workshop dates to participate. You can RSVP to hold a spot.

MARCH
Thursday March 20 6-8pm
Saturday March 22 12-2pm
Monday March 24 6-8pm

$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.

………………………..

Artist Bio
zavé martohardjono is a trans, queer, and mixed race (Indonesian and Italian-American) artist, activist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. They make performances, films, and installations, and work as a community organizer. Dance, ritual, and multimedia are primary languages across zavé’s creative practice which engages decolonized memory, queered mythologies, and ecological and somatic intelligence to envision more just futures. For information about their projects, visit zavemartohardjono.com.

We can’t wait for Friday, 2/21 @ 6pm…

ReMap: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse
w. zavé martohardjono @zavozavito begins! ⭐️

Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

See you there!
Link in bio to RSVP, accessibility, and more class info.
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Dates:
Friday February 21 6-8pm
Monday February 24 6-8pm
Thursday February 27 6-8pm

Thursday March 20 6-8pm
Saturday March 22 12-2pm
Monday March 24 6-8pm

Cost:
$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.

Location:
The Art Room Studio, 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl  ………………………………..  id: “asmr4apocalypse” excerpt by zavé martohardjono at Brooklyn Arts Exchange Short Visual Description: zavé performs in BAX’s wood floor and white walled studio theater to a small audience seen in silhouette. zavé is a queer mixed race Asian person who wears a green teeshirt, wide legged white pants, pink glasses and has short brown hair.

We can’t wait for Friday, 2/21 @ 6pm…

ReMap: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse
w. zavé martohardjono @zavozavito begins! ⭐️

Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

See you there!
Link in bio to RSVP, accessibility, and more class info.
………………………………..

Dates:
Friday February 21 6-8pm
Monday February 24 6-8pm
Thursday February 27 6-8pm

Thursday March 20 6-8pm
Saturday March 22 12-2pm
Monday March 24 6-8pm

Cost:
$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.

Location:
The Art Room Studio, 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl  ………………………………..  id: “asmr4apocalypse” excerpt by zavé martohardjono at Brooklyn Arts Exchange Short Visual Description: zavé performs in BAX’s wood floor and white walled studio theater to a small audience seen in silhouette. zavé is a queer mixed race Asian person who wears a green teeshirt, wide legged white pants, pink glasses and has short brown hair.

Resiliency, land, ASMR, the Pentagon…we are so thrilled to host zavé martohardjono @zavozavito at the Art Room Studio to teach their upcoming movement series….

ReMAp: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse
Link in bio to RSVP!

………………………………..

Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

ReMAp workshops offer somatic warm ups, deep and quantum listening exercises, shaking practice, and choreographic prompts that explore composting, Deep Time, geology, regenerative natural cycles, and interspecies relationality. Activities include dance, sounding, meditation, writing, small rituals, and group reflections. Research and practices in this workshop draw from Japanese Butoh, Chinese Qi Gong, ecological science, and feminist praxis from the work of Audre Lorde and Pauline Oliveros.
………………………………..

Workshop Info:
Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to attend all workshop dates to participate. You can RSVP to hold a spot.

Dates:
Friday February 21 6-8pm
Monday February 24 6-8pm
Thursday February 27 6-8pm

Thursday March 20 6-8pm
Saturday March 22 12-2pm
Monday March 24 6-8pm

Cost:
$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.

Location:
The Art Room Studio, 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl

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For more details on accessibility & the class series, please visit https://www.leahsteindanceco.org/remap-resiliency-motions-4-apocalypse

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zavé poses with their hands framing their face against a mural painted as a foliage filled backdrop. They wear a multi-hued green button down top with a gold chain necklace. zavé is a queer mixed race Asian person and wears pink framed glasses.

Resiliency, land, ASMR, the Pentagon…we are so thrilled to host zavé martohardjono @zavozavito at the Art Room Studio to teach their upcoming movement series….

ReMAp: Resiliency Motions 4 Apocalypse
Link in bio to RSVP!

………………………………..

Join NYC-based artist zavé martohardjono for a dance workshop that explores our bodies’ regenerative systems and ecological resilience. Currently building a performance and sound installation called “asmr4apocalypse”, zavé is facilitating ReMAp workshops to build community with dancers and conduct choreographic research. “asmr4apocalypse” uses sound, performance, somatic activation, and herbal ritual to prompt audiences to imagine a seemingly impervious colonial institution, the Pentagon, breaking down into its elements in future eons to compost back into the earth.

ReMAp workshops offer somatic warm ups, deep and quantum listening exercises, shaking practice, and choreographic prompts that explore composting, Deep Time, geology, regenerative natural cycles, and interspecies relationality. Activities include dance, sounding, meditation, writing, small rituals, and group reflections. Research and practices in this workshop draw from Japanese Butoh, Chinese Qi Gong, ecological science, and feminist praxis from the work of Audre Lorde and Pauline Oliveros.
………………………………..

Workshop Info:
Drop-ins are welcome! You do not need to attend all workshop dates to participate. You can RSVP to hold a spot.

Dates:
Friday February 21 6-8pm
Monday February 24 6-8pm
Thursday February 27 6-8pm

Thursday March 20 6-8pm
Saturday March 22 12-2pm
Monday March 24 6-8pm

Cost:
$5-15 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. Donations go towards rental cost of studio.

Location:
The Art Room Studio, 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl

………………………………..

For more details on accessibility & the class series, please visit https://www.leahsteindanceco.org/remap-resiliency-motions-4-apocalypse

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zavé poses with their hands framing their face against a mural painted as a foliage filled backdrop. They wear a multi-hued green button down top with a gold chain necklace. zavé is a queer mixed race Asian person and wears pink framed glasses.

this is about where and how satisfaction begins and ends. about wading through pleasure, collapse, pain, and futility. tor wants to try something he’s always wanted to try! and maybe learn more about enough being enough.

Catch and tumble with tor (@toebreen) this Thursday at STUDIO WORKS ⎯ Dec 12th, 7pm at The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl ! $10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in bio!

tor breen is a white, queer, trans dance artist living on Lenni Lenape land, currently known as Philadelphia. playing with obsession, intimacy, shame, and aggression, he devises circumstances for sensory satisfaction and physical risk. tor creates landscapes that are precisely current, a way of honoring prolonged global, local, and personal crisis and catastrophe. tor has lived in New Hampshire and Minneapolis, where he learned so much from the mountains and the river and from artists including Ananya Chatterjea, Carl Flink, Erin Thompson, Chris Schlichting, HIJACK, and Leslie Parker.

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Photo credit: mik phillips

this is about where and how satisfaction begins and ends. about wading through pleasure, collapse, pain, and futility. tor wants to try something he’s always wanted to try! and maybe learn more about enough being enough.

Catch and tumble with tor (@toebreen) this Thursday at STUDIO WORKS ⎯ Dec 12th, 7pm at The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl ! $10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in bio!

tor breen is a white, queer, trans dance artist living on Lenni Lenape land, currently known as Philadelphia. playing with obsession, intimacy, shame, and aggression, he devises circumstances for sensory satisfaction and physical risk. tor creates landscapes that are precisely current, a way of honoring prolonged global, local, and personal crisis and catastrophe. tor has lived in New Hampshire and Minneapolis, where he learned so much from the mountains and the river and from artists including Ananya Chatterjea, Carl Flink, Erin Thompson, Chris Schlichting, HIJACK, and Leslie Parker.

Image id in alt text.

Photo credit: mik phillips

Witness Nerissa Tunnessen (@_nerissat_) and Sam Xia Cody (@scodyxiao) as they share a new work exploring dance and violin this Thursday at STUDIO WORKS ⎯ Dec 12th, 7pm at The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl ! $10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Nerissa and Sam are a creative dance and music duo based in Philadelphia, PA. They practice a cross-disciplinary investigation of form through text, conversation, and embodied practice.

Image id in alt text.

Photo credit #1: Rosie Simmons
Photo credit #2 and #2: Isaac Harrell

Witness Nerissa Tunnessen (@_nerissat_) and Sam Xia Cody (@scodyxiao) as they share a new work exploring dance and violin this Thursday at STUDIO WORKS ⎯ Dec 12th, 7pm at The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl ! $10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Nerissa and Sam are a creative dance and music duo based in Philadelphia, PA. They practice a cross-disciplinary investigation of form through text, conversation, and embodied practice.

Image id in alt text.

Photo credit #1: Rosie Simmons
Photo credit #2 and #2: Isaac Harrell

Join AZ in a cosmic exploration of their research MAR-Z: A Menstrual Musical this Thursday at STUDIO WORKS !

Dec 12th, 7pm at The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. (2nd fl). $10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

AZ Espinoza (@azsp_noza ) will share their work/research with MAR-Z: A Menstrual Musical. AZ Espinoza is building a map out of the dysphoria of the masculine menstruation experience. Explorations of movement and ritual, astrological inspirations, imaginary friends from childhood, and the tropes of standup comedy are the tools for building a narrative for stories where words fail to make meaning or provide comfort. MAR-Z is a duet for one body, a trans confessional, and a laboratory for perpetual transformation (it’s also funny). This piece was initially developed with Severin Blake and Lu Donovan at Subcircle Residency in Biddeford, Maine.

AZ Espinoza is an afro-futurist-trans-masculine-feminist making magic through theatre. As a playwright, director, mover and maker, their praxis is grounded in community building, embodiments of queer joy, and decolonial ritual practice. AZ’s solo performance work has been supported by Subcircle Residency in Biddeford, Maine and recent collaborations include Thomas Choinacky’s Forehand Down the Line and Dream Sweet, Rough Man with Lu Donovan and Micah Lockman-Fine. His plays All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, Homeridae, and Caribbean King have been supported and produced by Azuka Theatre, National New Play Network, Black Spatial Relics, and the Four Seasons Playwriting Residency. AZ is a student of liberation everywhere, and for everyone.

Join AZ in a cosmic exploration of their research MAR-Z: A Menstrual Musical this Thursday at STUDIO WORKS !

Dec 12th, 7pm at The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. (2nd fl). $10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

AZ Espinoza (@azsp_noza ) will share their work/research with MAR-Z: A Menstrual Musical. AZ Espinoza is building a map out of the dysphoria of the masculine menstruation experience. Explorations of movement and ritual, astrological inspirations, imaginary friends from childhood, and the tropes of standup comedy are the tools for building a narrative for stories where words fail to make meaning or provide comfort. MAR-Z is a duet for one body, a trans confessional, and a laboratory for perpetual transformation (it’s also funny). This piece was initially developed with Severin Blake and Lu Donovan at Subcircle Residency in Biddeford, Maine.

AZ Espinoza is an afro-futurist-trans-masculine-feminist making magic through theatre. As a playwright, director, mover and maker, their praxis is grounded in community building, embodiments of queer joy, and decolonial ritual practice. AZ’s solo performance work has been supported by Subcircle Residency in Biddeford, Maine and recent collaborations include Thomas Choinacky’s Forehand Down the Line and Dream Sweet, Rough Man with Lu Donovan and Micah Lockman-Fine. His plays All My Mothers Dream in Spanish, Homeridae, and Caribbean King have been supported and produced by Azuka Theatre, National New Play Network, Black Spatial Relics, and the Four Seasons Playwriting Residency. AZ is a student of liberation everywhere, and for everyone.

STUDIO WORKS ⎯ December 12th, 2024 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl

Join us for our cozy, fall Studio Works this December featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists AZ Espinoza, Nerissa Tennessen, and tor breen!

$10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

AZ Espinoza (@azsp_noza ) will share his work/research with MAR-Z: A Menstrual Musical. AZ Espinoza is building a map out of the dysphoria of the masculine menstruation experience. Explorations of movement and ritual, astrological inspirations, imaginary friends from childhood, and the tropes of standup comedy are the tools for building a narrative for stories where words fail to make meaning or provide comfort. MAR-Z is a duet for one body, a trans confessional, and a laboratory for perpetual transformation (it’s also funny). This piece was initially developed with Severin Blake and Lu Donovan at Subcircle Residency in Biddeford, Maine.

Nerissa Tennessen (@_nerissat_ ) and collaborator Sam Xiao Cody will share a work in its very beginning phases, a new project for dance and violin.

Tor breen (@toebreen ) will share research about where and how satisfaction begins and ends. about wading through pleasure, collapse, pain, and futility. tor wants to try something he’s always wanted to try! and maybe learn more about enough being enough.

Interested in sharing research at a future Studio Works? Email us at artroomstudiophilly@gmail.com to get involved!

STUDIO WORKS ⎯ December 12th, 2024 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl

Join us for our cozy, fall Studio Works this December featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists AZ Espinoza, Nerissa Tennessen, and tor breen!

$10 - $35 ⎯ pay at door ⎯ no one turned away for lack of funds!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

AZ Espinoza (@azsp_noza ) will share his work/research with MAR-Z: A Menstrual Musical. AZ Espinoza is building a map out of the dysphoria of the masculine menstruation experience. Explorations of movement and ritual, astrological inspirations, imaginary friends from childhood, and the tropes of standup comedy are the tools for building a narrative for stories where words fail to make meaning or provide comfort. MAR-Z is a duet for one body, a trans confessional, and a laboratory for perpetual transformation (it’s also funny). This piece was initially developed with Severin Blake and Lu Donovan at Subcircle Residency in Biddeford, Maine.

Nerissa Tennessen (@_nerissat_ ) and collaborator Sam Xiao Cody will share a work in its very beginning phases, a new project for dance and violin.

Tor breen (@toebreen ) will share research about where and how satisfaction begins and ends. about wading through pleasure, collapse, pain, and futility. tor wants to try something he’s always wanted to try! and maybe learn more about enough being enough.

Interested in sharing research at a future Studio Works? Email us at artroomstudiophilly@gmail.com to get involved!

Join 2024 REAP artist Kimya Imani Jackson (@artsciencehybrid ) for a multimedia workshop Love Letter to Gas Stations: a collage Sunday October 20th 11am-1pm. 🌈

full workshop description, accessibility info and RSVP using the link in bio!

Workshop Description: Public space. Private space. Gas stations exist in both spaces simultaneously while also being a place that all of us will pass through at least once in our lifetime. This 3-hour workshop will explore our experiences/stories at gas stations. A mashup of movement exercises, questions, photos, sounds, discussion, and snack breaks will guide us in creating our collage. Open to adults at all levels of movement experience.

About Kimya Imani Jackson: I am a dancer, creator, clown and Ph.D. trained Biobehavioral Health scientist. I work in these mediums because I am excited by the extraordinary nature of ordinary things. I believe that magical things are happening every day if one just pays attention.

About REAP: Residency for Emerging Artists Project (REAP) is an artist-centered and self-led residency typically spanning from three months to one-year for 2-3 local artists in Philadelphia working across dance, music, theater, and performance. The length of each artist’s residency is decided by REAP artists at preliminary meetings with LSDC’s team. Artists are offered unlimited FREE studio space at The Art Room Studio, 10-hours of mentorship from an artist of their choice, and administrative support for a culminating event. There is no requirement for artists to execute a project within any set parameters, however, artists have the opportunity to share work in a culminating event in any form/format that supports their work (private/public showing, workshop, etc).

Join 2024 REAP artist Kimya Imani Jackson (@artsciencehybrid ) for a multimedia workshop Love Letter to Gas Stations: a collage Sunday October 20th 11am-1pm. 🌈

full workshop description, accessibility info and RSVP using the link in bio!

Workshop Description: Public space. Private space. Gas stations exist in both spaces simultaneously while also being a place that all of us will pass through at least once in our lifetime. This 3-hour workshop will explore our experiences/stories at gas stations. A mashup of movement exercises, questions, photos, sounds, discussion, and snack breaks will guide us in creating our collage. Open to adults at all levels of movement experience.

About Kimya Imani Jackson: I am a dancer, creator, clown and Ph.D. trained Biobehavioral Health scientist. I work in these mediums because I am excited by the extraordinary nature of ordinary things. I believe that magical things are happening every day if one just pays attention.

About REAP: Residency for Emerging Artists Project (REAP) is an artist-centered and self-led residency typically spanning from three months to one-year for 2-3 local artists in Philadelphia working across dance, music, theater, and performance. The length of each artist’s residency is decided by REAP artists at preliminary meetings with LSDC’s team. Artists are offered unlimited FREE studio space at The Art Room Studio, 10-hours of mentorship from an artist of their choice, and administrative support for a culminating event. There is no requirement for artists to execute a project within any set parameters, however, artists have the opportunity to share work in a culminating event in any form/format that supports their work (private/public showing, workshop, etc).

Connect, reset and immerse yourself in Patricia Graham’s installation Neuro-Box-Reshuffle this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - AUGUST 24th - 7:30pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Image credit by Maya Jackson. Image description in alt text provided by artists.

Connect, reset and immerse yourself in Patricia Graham’s installation Neuro-Box-Reshuffle this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - AUGUST 24th - 7:30pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Image credit by Maya Jackson. Image description in alt text provided by artists.

Be intrigued, be very intrigued.

Join Ray Toy as they lead the audience on a peripatetic journey powered by love, irony, and humor this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - AUGUST 24th - 7:30pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Ray Toy is an experimental novelist and performer. They hold an MA from the Royal College of Art in London, UK and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, US.

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Be intrigued, be very intrigued.

Join Ray Toy as they lead the audience on a peripatetic journey powered by love, irony, and humor this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - AUGUST 24th - 7:30pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Ray Toy is an experimental novelist and performer. They hold an MA from the Royal College of Art in London, UK and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, US.

Image description in alt text provided by artists.

What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale….

Join Leigh Huster (@jock_witch ) in experimenting with somatic gratitude this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - AUGUST 24th - 7:30pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

More on clapping for nature: Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting the damage to our ecosystems. This outdoor, immersive dance performance attempts to restore our relationship with our local ecosystems through tapping into the radical present through a combination of performance and somatic practice.

Featured collaborators in STUDIO WORKS clapping for nature iteration: shannon brooks (they/she), kimya jackson (she/her)

Leigh Huster is a mover and performance artist based in Philly. They are a dance instructor and organizer with West Philly Queerobics, a collectively-run, monthly accessibility-centered, all-levels community aerobics class. Additionally, they are an assistant producer of Night of 1,000 Kates, an evening of Kate Bush performance art and worship. They completed an artist residency in 2019 with Headlong Performance Institute.

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What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale….

Join Leigh Huster (@jock_witch ) in experimenting with somatic gratitude this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - AUGUST 24th - 7:30pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

More on clapping for nature: Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting the damage to our ecosystems. This outdoor, immersive dance performance attempts to restore our relationship with our local ecosystems through tapping into the radical present through a combination of performance and somatic practice.

Featured collaborators in STUDIO WORKS clapping for nature iteration: shannon brooks (they/she), kimya jackson (she/her)

Leigh Huster is a mover and performance artist based in Philly. They are a dance instructor and organizer with West Philly Queerobics, a collectively-run, monthly accessibility-centered, all-levels community aerobics class. Additionally, they are an assistant producer of Night of 1,000 Kates, an evening of Kate Bush performance art and worship. They completed an artist residency in 2019 with Headlong Performance Institute.

Image description in alt text provided by artists.

STUDIO WORKS
AUGUST 24th 2024 at 7:30pm

Featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists Leigh Huster (@jock_witch ), Patricia Graham (@patriciagraham654 ), and Ray Toy (rayyytoyyy ).

The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Leigh Huster: What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale. Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting the damage to our ecosystems. This outdoor, immersive dance performance attempts to restore our relationship with our local ecosystems through tapping into the radical present through a combination of performance and somatic practice.

Ray Toy will lead the audience on a peripatetic journey powered by love, irony, and humor.

Patricia Graham: neuro-box-Reshuffle, an immersive video experience.

STUDIO WORKS
AUGUST 24th 2024 at 7:30pm

Featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists Leigh Huster (@jock_witch ), Patricia Graham (@patriciagraham654 ), and Ray Toy (rayyytoyyy ).

The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Leigh Huster: What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale. Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting the damage to our ecosystems. This outdoor, immersive dance performance attempts to restore our relationship with our local ecosystems through tapping into the radical present through a combination of performance and somatic practice.

Ray Toy will lead the audience on a peripatetic journey powered by love, irony, and humor.

Patricia Graham: neuro-box-Reshuffle, an immersive video experience.

Radiating in memories from our 2024 Studio Works series! Here are a few of our favorite moments from this past January’s Studio Works with artists (gen)ise paige (@gen.aissance) and Mikah Simone(@sheheretoda.y), with Aya Razzaz (@leila_delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet (@ness_rose_ ).

Enjoy more experiments in performance at our NEXT STUDIO WORKS this AUGUST 24th with local artists Leigh Huster (@jock_witch ), Ray Toy (rayyytoyyy), and Patricia Graham (@patriciagraham654 ).

August 24th 7:30pm
The Art Room Studio (2329 s3rd st. fl 2)
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.

Radiating in memories from our 2024 Studio Works series! Here are a few of our favorite moments from this past January’s Studio Works with artists (gen)ise paige (@gen.aissance) and Mikah Simone(@sheheretoda.y), with Aya Razzaz (@leila_delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet (@ness_rose_ ).

Enjoy more experiments in performance at our NEXT STUDIO WORKS this AUGUST 24th with local artists Leigh Huster (@jock_witch ), Ray Toy (rayyytoyyy), and Patricia Graham (@patriciagraham654 ).

August 24th 7:30pm
The Art Room Studio (2329 s3rd st. fl 2)
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.

Envelop yourself in the world of Blood Baby! Repost from our friends at @paintedbrideartcenter
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Disco. Boulders. An electric hug. This June, immerse yourself in Blood Baby (@_bloodbaby), a multidisciplinary dance project by Meg Foley (@actionisprimary) exploring queer & gender-expansive identity and family-building.

Engage in queer parent groups, interactive libraries, movement performances, and more at sites across Philadelphia this Pride Month! Get tickets and learn more about Blood Baby‘s five-part constellation of offerings at the link in the bio.

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Pic 1: performance of “Carpet Womb”
Pic 2: participant in “Touch Library”
Pic 3: “Primordial” installation UB

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Made possible with support from @pewcenterarts, with additional support from @nefa_arts and @npnarts

Envelop yourself in the world of Blood Baby! Repost from our friends at @paintedbrideartcenter
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Disco. Boulders. An electric hug. This June, immerse yourself in Blood Baby (@_bloodbaby), a multidisciplinary dance project by Meg Foley (@actionisprimary) exploring queer & gender-expansive identity and family-building.

Engage in queer parent groups, interactive libraries, movement performances, and more at sites across Philadelphia this Pride Month! Get tickets and learn more about Blood Baby‘s five-part constellation of offerings at the link in the bio.

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Pic 1: performance of “Carpet Womb”
Pic 2: participant in “Touch Library”
Pic 3: “Primordial” installation UB

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Made possible with support from @pewcenterarts, with additional support from @nefa_arts and @npnarts

“We are figuring out the Echosystem”. This is: A duet that exists in phases. A duet that transposes space. A duet that transmits the energy. A duet that acts as the carbon. A duet that is built from and for more than just us.

Glide into and engage with Aubrey and Shana’s reverberating flow this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - JUNE 1st - 8pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

We are Shana Crawford and Aubrey Donisch, a long-distance dancing duo from Minneapolis. Shana by trade is a lighting designer and production manager in New York City, and Aubrey is a Philadelphia-based dance teacher and arts administrator. We have a deeply embedded shared history of movement as a practice of access. We ground ourselves in principles of shared authorship, building around the people who are in the room, autonomy over one’s own body and thoughts, and a belief that dancing isn’t about image, it’s about people.

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“We are figuring out the Echosystem”. This is: A duet that exists in phases. A duet that transposes space. A duet that transmits the energy. A duet that acts as the carbon. A duet that is built from and for more than just us.

Glide into and engage with Aubrey and Shana’s reverberating flow this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - JUNE 1st - 8pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

We are Shana Crawford and Aubrey Donisch, a long-distance dancing duo from Minneapolis. Shana by trade is a lighting designer and production manager in New York City, and Aubrey is a Philadelphia-based dance teacher and arts administrator. We have a deeply embedded shared history of movement as a practice of access. We ground ourselves in principles of shared authorship, building around the people who are in the room, autonomy over one’s own body and thoughts, and a belief that dancing isn’t about image, it’s about people.

Image description in alt text provided by artists.

“I’m taking up so much space I’m excreting it.” This work in progress explores themes of abundance and scarcity in our individual lives, communities, and ecosystems. Whenever I approach clarity of what abundance might look like for me personally, I snag when I consider how my wildest hopes or dreams would affect the environment or communities around me. How could we actually navigate personal and collective abundance? And what is that, past the buzzwords, anyway?...

Bask in your edges and untangle the mess with Miryam Coppersmith’s work this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - JUNE 1st - 8pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Featured collaborators: Shannon Brooks (@shalynbro ), Leigh Huster (@jock_witch) , Kimya Imani Jackson (@artsciencehybrid ).

** slide to the end to witness Miryam take their TIME to untangle yarn after a recent rehearsal **

2nd photo credit Johanna Austin

Miryam Coppersmith (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, writer, dance leader, and teacher. In her own performance, she works with movement, speech, and sound coming from her body, drawing on training in Contact Improvisation, Six Viewpoints, acting, Black American social dance, and other influences. She is also a skilled Yiddish dancer, having trained under Steve Weintraub. Miryam’s solo dance/theater piece “Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish” which premiered in the Cannonball Festival this September, was hailed a “must-see performance” by The Dance Journal, and recently opened SoloFest at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill, NY. miryamcoppersmith.com

“I’m taking up so much space I’m excreting it.” This work in progress explores themes of abundance and scarcity in our individual lives, communities, and ecosystems. Whenever I approach clarity of what abundance might look like for me personally, I snag when I consider how my wildest hopes or dreams would affect the environment or communities around me. How could we actually navigate personal and collective abundance? And what is that, past the buzzwords, anyway?...

Bask in your edges and untangle the mess with Miryam Coppersmith’s work this Saturday at STUDIO WORKS - JUNE 1st - 8pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Featured collaborators: Shannon Brooks (@shalynbro ), Leigh Huster (@jock_witch) , Kimya Imani Jackson (@artsciencehybrid ).

** slide to the end to witness Miryam take their TIME to untangle yarn after a recent rehearsal **

2nd photo credit Johanna Austin

Miryam Coppersmith (she/they) is a Philadelphia-based performance artist, writer, dance leader, and teacher. In her own performance, she works with movement, speech, and sound coming from her body, drawing on training in Contact Improvisation, Six Viewpoints, acting, Black American social dance, and other influences. She is also a skilled Yiddish dancer, having trained under Steve Weintraub. Miryam’s solo dance/theater piece “Mirele Lernt Zich Yiddish” which premiered in the Cannonball Festival this September, was hailed a “must-see performance” by The Dance Journal, and recently opened SoloFest at the Bridge Street Theater in Catskill, NY. miryamcoppersmith.com

“building a house for a home” explores what it means to seek steady ground. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, this piece considers recollection, displacement, lineage, and homemaking – a calling back to move forward. Featured collaborator: Daniel Sohn (@sanieldohn )

We are honored and delighted to be with Vyette Tiya’s work at this Spring’s STUDIO WORKS - Saturday, JUNE 1st - 8pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Vyette Tiya (she/her) is a Kenyan-American dancer and performance artist based in Philadelphia. Her work often explores cultural heritage and sense of belonging. Vyette is most interested in interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation as practice, and centering movement as a way to tap into our authentic selves. Vyette studied international studies and dance at American University and she holds an MPA from Princeton University. Connect with her at vyettetiya.com or by following them at @vyettetiya

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“building a house for a home” explores what it means to seek steady ground. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, this piece considers recollection, displacement, lineage, and homemaking – a calling back to move forward. Featured collaborator: Daniel Sohn (@sanieldohn )

We are honored and delighted to be with Vyette Tiya’s work at this Spring’s STUDIO WORKS - Saturday, JUNE 1st - 8pm @ The Art Room Studio! Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

Vyette Tiya (she/her) is a Kenyan-American dancer and performance artist based in Philadelphia. Her work often explores cultural heritage and sense of belonging. Vyette is most interested in interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisation as practice, and centering movement as a way to tap into our authentic selves. Vyette studied international studies and dance at American University and she holds an MPA from Princeton University. Connect with her at vyettetiya.com or by following them at @vyettetiya

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STUDIO WORKS
June 1st 2024 at 8pm
Featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists Vyette Tiya (@vyettetiya ), Miryam Coppersmith (@miryam.moves ), and Aubrey Donisch (@aubrey_rsr ) with Shana Crawford (@sortofhere).

The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artist are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Vyette Tiya
“building a house for a home” explores what it means to seek steady ground. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, this piece considers recollection, displacement, lineage, and homemaking – a calling back to move forward.
featured collaborator: Daniel Sohn (@sanieldohn ).

Miryam Coppersmith
“I’m taking up so much space I’m excreting it.” This work in progress explores themes of abundance and scarcity in our individual lives, communities, and ecosystems. Whenever I approach clarity of what abundance might look like for me personally, I snag when I consider how my wildest hopes or dreams would affect the environment or communities around me. How could we actually navigate personal and collective abundance? And what is that, past the buzzwords, anyway? This ensemble of artists has been exploring these questions through discussion, movement, and play in space.
featured collaborators: Kimya Imani Jackson (@artsciencehybrid ), Shannon Brooks (@shalynbro ), and Leigh Huster
(@jock_witch ).

Aubrey Donisch and Shana Crawford
We are figuring out the Echosystem. This is: A duet that exists in phases. A duet that transposes space. A duet that transmits the energy. A duet that acts as the carbon. A duet that is built from and for more than just us.

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

STUDIO WORKS
June 1st 2024 at 8pm
Featuring experiments in performance, sound, and materials with local artists Vyette Tiya (@vyettetiya ), Miryam Coppersmith (@miryam.moves ), and Aubrey Donisch (@aubrey_rsr ) with Shana Crawford (@sortofhere).

The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$10 - $35 • pay at door • no one turned away for lack of funds

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artist are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share. All proceeds go to the artists.

Vyette Tiya
“building a house for a home” explores what it means to seek steady ground. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, this piece considers recollection, displacement, lineage, and homemaking – a calling back to move forward.
featured collaborator: Daniel Sohn (@sanieldohn ).

Miryam Coppersmith
“I’m taking up so much space I’m excreting it.” This work in progress explores themes of abundance and scarcity in our individual lives, communities, and ecosystems. Whenever I approach clarity of what abundance might look like for me personally, I snag when I consider how my wildest hopes or dreams would affect the environment or communities around me. How could we actually navigate personal and collective abundance? And what is that, past the buzzwords, anyway? This ensemble of artists has been exploring these questions through discussion, movement, and play in space.
featured collaborators: Kimya Imani Jackson (@artsciencehybrid ), Shannon Brooks (@shalynbro ), and Leigh Huster
(@jock_witch ).

Aubrey Donisch and Shana Crawford
We are figuring out the Echosystem. This is: A duet that exists in phases. A duet that transposes space. A duet that transmits the energy. A duet that acts as the carbon. A duet that is built from and for more than just us.

Full program and accessibility information using the link in our bio.

“…Our intention was to meet people where they were and create immersive artistic experiences that enhanced or awakened their day…”

Immersive yourself into physicality and interconnection in 'SU.21.AC', a work from Camille Rennie, Company of Collaborative Artists (CoCA @cocamoves ) at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of the The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st).

In the summer of 2021, the Company of Collaborative Artists made the commitment to continue to bring dance art to people despite the global shutdown and closing of theaters and traditional performance spaces for dance. We elected to bring our creative process and performances outdoors and into public spaces, making dance art accessible to new and unsuspecting audiences. Our intention was to meet people where they were and create immersive artistic experiences that enhanced or awakened their day. This film work was created in residency at Stockton University and recorded in one-take on the boardwalk in front of their Atlantic City campus residence hall. [Music: “Ahya Simone Enough No BPM” by Kelela (the remixes) “Waking up in Assam” by Dan Savell]

Camille Rennie (MFA, Rutgers University) is a freelance choreographer and dance artist from New Jersey who serves her community as a choreographer, a university professor in dance and somatics, a wellness practitioner, and a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200-hour). She currently presents her choreography, movement practices, and artistic collaborations through the artwork & immersive events of her dance company, the Company of Collaborative Artists; a 501c3 nonprofit dance company with a mission to spread love and light internationally through dance arts and creative community…

Read more about Camille Rennie and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“…Our intention was to meet people where they were and create immersive artistic experiences that enhanced or awakened their day…”

Immersive yourself into physicality and interconnection in 'SU.21.AC', a work from Camille Rennie, Company of Collaborative Artists (CoCA @cocamoves ) at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of the The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st).

In the summer of 2021, the Company of Collaborative Artists made the commitment to continue to bring dance art to people despite the global shutdown and closing of theaters and traditional performance spaces for dance. We elected to bring our creative process and performances outdoors and into public spaces, making dance art accessible to new and unsuspecting audiences. Our intention was to meet people where they were and create immersive artistic experiences that enhanced or awakened their day. This film work was created in residency at Stockton University and recorded in one-take on the boardwalk in front of their Atlantic City campus residence hall. [Music: “Ahya Simone Enough No BPM” by Kelela (the remixes) “Waking up in Assam” by Dan Savell]

Camille Rennie (MFA, Rutgers University) is a freelance choreographer and dance artist from New Jersey who serves her community as a choreographer, a university professor in dance and somatics, a wellness practitioner, and a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200-hour). She currently presents her choreography, movement practices, and artistic collaborations through the artwork & immersive events of her dance company, the Company of Collaborative Artists; a 501c3 nonprofit dance company with a mission to spread love and light internationally through dance arts and creative community…

Read more about Camille Rennie and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“Red Shadow is an impermanent body duet shifting constantly through past and present…”

Feel the textural wash of time in Leslie Bush’s (@midden_heap_movement ) work Red Shadow at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st). RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Leslie Bush is a Philadelphia based interdisciplinary artist working with dance and media. Fascinated by discrete/discreet movements, her improvisational practice exists in the in-between, the unstable, and the hard to describe. Her creative process amplifies the subtle body, often through technological mediation…

Read more about Leslie Bush and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

“Red Shadow is an impermanent body duet shifting constantly through past and present…”

Feel the textural wash of time in Leslie Bush’s (@midden_heap_movement ) work Red Shadow at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st). RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Leslie Bush is a Philadelphia based interdisciplinary artist working with dance and media. Fascinated by discrete/discreet movements, her improvisational practice exists in the in-between, the unstable, and the hard to describe. Her creative process amplifies the subtle body, often through technological mediation…

Read more about Leslie Bush and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

“When are you safe? Where are you safe?…”

Witness Megan Mizanty’s (@mizanty.art ) vulnerable inspection of security, risk, and safety with her work Everyday at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st). RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

When are you safe? Where are you safe? “Everyday” explores the lived experiences of walking alone in a myriad of places circumstances, real and imagined.

Megan Mizanty, Audren Harden and Lillian Stamey are artists based in the tri-state region.

Read more about Megan Mizanty and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“When are you safe? Where are you safe?…”

Witness Megan Mizanty’s (@mizanty.art ) vulnerable inspection of security, risk, and safety with her work Everyday at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st). RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

When are you safe? Where are you safe? “Everyday” explores the lived experiences of walking alone in a myriad of places circumstances, real and imagined.

Megan Mizanty, Audren Harden and Lillian Stamey are artists based in the tri-state region.

Read more about Megan Mizanty and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“Rooted in interviews with displaced individuals and housing activists, the work interrogates power structures and policies that have displaced generations of US residents and surfaces solutions to our national housing crisis…”

Experience Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action’s (@avivageismar ) passionate look into power in their work ‘Dis Place’ at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st) RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Dis Place: Paper Edition” investigates our national legacy of displacement under the banner of “urban renewal.” Rooted in interviews with displaced individuals and housing activists, the work interrogates power structures and policies that have displaced generations of US residents and surfaces solutions to our national housing crisis.

Aviva Geismar is a New York City-based dancer, dance educator, choreographer and artistic director of Drastic Action, a contemporary dance company. She is also an Associate Professor at Queensborough Community College. Since 1989 she has been creating a body of theatrical dances, rooted in a full-bodied physicality and an interest in social justice…

Read more about Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“Rooted in interviews with displaced individuals and housing activists, the work interrogates power structures and policies that have displaced generations of US residents and surfaces solutions to our national housing crisis…”

Experience Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action’s (@avivageismar ) passionate look into power in their work ‘Dis Place’ at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st) RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Dis Place: Paper Edition” investigates our national legacy of displacement under the banner of “urban renewal.” Rooted in interviews with displaced individuals and housing activists, the work interrogates power structures and policies that have displaced generations of US residents and surfaces solutions to our national housing crisis.

Aviva Geismar is a New York City-based dancer, dance educator, choreographer and artistic director of Drastic Action, a contemporary dance company. She is also an Associate Professor at Queensborough Community College. Since 1989 she has been creating a body of theatrical dances, rooted in a full-bodied physicality and an interest in social justice…

Read more about Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“It’s hard to be a colonizer. Constant anxiety, nervous breakdowns. Nature dying and stuff...”

Experience Irina Varina’s (@irvarina ) investigation with Colonizers at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st) RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Irina Varina makes movies and theater. She moonlights as the Minister of Loneliness on the streets of New York and Philly collecting people’s loneliness claims.

Read more about Irina Varina and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“It’s hard to be a colonizer. Constant anxiety, nervous breakdowns. Nature dying and stuff...”

Experience Irina Varina’s (@irvarina ) investigation with Colonizers at FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/18 at 7pm in the basement of theThe Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st) RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Irina Varina makes movies and theater. She moonlights as the Minister of Loneliness on the streets of New York and Philly collecting people’s loneliness claims.

Read more about Irina Varina and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order...”

Witness Oona Taper’s (@oonataper ) textural world Sound of Sinking Ships created with video, degraded 16mm, 8mm film and hand drawn animation, at FILM WORKS, tomorrow Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on ZOOM ! RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order- explored through movement, music, video and film. The Sound of Sinking Ships is a dance improvisation documented in film, video, and animation. This video highlights movement itself as the figure flows through mediums, styles and levels of obfuscation and abstraction- including video, degraded 16mm and 8mm film and hand drawn animation.

Oona Taper is a Chicago-based artist creating films, installations and animations that are invested in the materiality of moving images to create tactile and embodied experiences for the viewer.

Read more about Oona Taper and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

“Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order...”

Witness Oona Taper’s (@oonataper ) textural world Sound of Sinking Ships created with video, degraded 16mm, 8mm film and hand drawn animation, at FILM WORKS, tomorrow Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on ZOOM ! RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Clarity and obfuscation, entropy and order- explored through movement, music, video and film. The Sound of Sinking Ships is a dance improvisation documented in film, video, and animation. This video highlights movement itself as the figure flows through mediums, styles and levels of obfuscation and abstraction- including video, degraded 16mm and 8mm film and hand drawn animation.

Oona Taper is a Chicago-based artist creating films, installations and animations that are invested in the materiality of moving images to create tactile and embodied experiences for the viewer.

Read more about Oona Taper and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

“…an embodied exploration of integrating the shadow self using archetypes in astrology and tarot… “

Join us for the second screening of FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on ZOOM, and feel the embodied, esoteric experience of Amber Hongsermeier’s (@amber_in_motion ) video “Penumbra”. RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

“Penumbra” is an embodied exploration of integrating the shadow self using archetypes in astrology and tarot. Important archetypes used for movement generation were the dance artist’s Cancer Sun sign and the Four of Swords card that was pulled multiple times throughout the creative process.

Amber Hongsermeier is a neurodivergent and interdisciplinary movement artist, educator, and dance filmmaker. She received her BA in Dance with a history minor from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she was awarded the Porter Award for Creativity in Dance. In 2021, she earned her MFA in Dance from Rutgers University with her thesis focused on finding embodiment by exploring archetypes in astrology and tarot…

Read more about Amber Hongsermeier and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“…an embodied exploration of integrating the shadow self using archetypes in astrology and tarot… “

Join us for the second screening of FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on ZOOM, and feel the embodied, esoteric experience of Amber Hongsermeier’s (@amber_in_motion ) video “Penumbra”. RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

“Penumbra” is an embodied exploration of integrating the shadow self using archetypes in astrology and tarot. Important archetypes used for movement generation were the dance artist’s Cancer Sun sign and the Four of Swords card that was pulled multiple times throughout the creative process.

Amber Hongsermeier is a neurodivergent and interdisciplinary movement artist, educator, and dance filmmaker. She received her BA in Dance with a history minor from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she was awarded the Porter Award for Creativity in Dance. In 2021, she earned her MFA in Dance from Rutgers University with her thesis focused on finding embodiment by exploring archetypes in astrology and tarot…

Read more about Amber Hongsermeier and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“…both an investigation of physical surfaces and a contemplation of the nature of space and time...”

Join us for the second screening of FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on ZOOM, and dive into the surreal explorations of Christy Walsh’s (@christy_walsh_ ) video Cistern;After Murakami. RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Cistern; After Murakami; Inspired by the author’s surrealistic use of empty wells as a conduit between multiple realities, Cistern places the dancer in an empty stone reservoir. Later, in true Murakami style, she suddenly finds herself on a desolate rock formation by the sea. The dance is both an investigation of physical surfaces and a contemplation of the nature of space and time. The recorded passage of chronological time in the dark cistern seems to pass very slowly, even though there is little of it. On the beach, where most of the action takes place, the sense of time is condensed because of the relative sense of freedom. The dancer explores the cistern’s contours, she has a dance with her shadow, the floors, and the walls, but she makes no attempt to leave. She just happens to find a spot on the wall that leads elsewhere. Like one of Murakami’s characters, she is in the cistern by choice, passively awaiting the adventure that will find her if she remains open to the possibility.

Christy Walsh started her performance career as a child, singing, acting and dancing with her grandmother, Alice Wamsley, in Wamsley’s musical theater company, Norfolk Musical Theater. Walsh went on to study with Gene Hammett, Glenn White, Susan Boree and others at the Tidewater Ballet in Norfolk, Virginia, where she also graduated from the Governor’s Magnet School…

Read more about Christy Walsh and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“…both an investigation of physical surfaces and a contemplation of the nature of space and time...”

Join us for the second screening of FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on ZOOM, and dive into the surreal explorations of Christy Walsh’s (@christy_walsh_ ) video Cistern;After Murakami. RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Cistern; After Murakami; Inspired by the author’s surrealistic use of empty wells as a conduit between multiple realities, Cistern places the dancer in an empty stone reservoir. Later, in true Murakami style, she suddenly finds herself on a desolate rock formation by the sea. The dance is both an investigation of physical surfaces and a contemplation of the nature of space and time. The recorded passage of chronological time in the dark cistern seems to pass very slowly, even though there is little of it. On the beach, where most of the action takes place, the sense of time is condensed because of the relative sense of freedom. The dancer explores the cistern’s contours, she has a dance with her shadow, the floors, and the walls, but she makes no attempt to leave. She just happens to find a spot on the wall that leads elsewhere. Like one of Murakami’s characters, she is in the cistern by choice, passively awaiting the adventure that will find her if she remains open to the possibility.

Christy Walsh started her performance career as a child, singing, acting and dancing with her grandmother, Alice Wamsley, in Wamsley’s musical theater company, Norfolk Musical Theater. Walsh went on to study with Gene Hammett, Glenn White, Susan Boree and others at the Tidewater Ballet in Norfolk, Virginia, where she also graduated from the Governor’s Magnet School…

Read more about Christy Walsh and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“ … | community | noun: a feeling of interpersonal connection with others, as a result of sharing attitudes, interests, goals, or experiences…”

Join us for the second screening of FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on zoom, and witness Loren McFalls’ (@lorencatherine_ ) stunning exploration of interconnection with her film | community |. RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Loren McFalls is a choreographer, performer, and teaching artist. Her dance training began in 1993 and continues indefinitely. She is most notably a member of the Drexel Dance Ensemble, co-founder of the femme. artists’ collective, and a board member with DanceATL. She currently teaches at Pointe of Grace, Atlanta Ballet, and is a live stream engineer for Core Dance. Her works have been featured in Philadelphia Fringe, DanceATL’s A.M. Collaborative Program, Spring for Spring & Fall for Fall Festivals, Zoetic Dance’s MIXTAPE, Full Radius Dance’s MAD Festival, Peace One Day, and Core Dance’s REEL Arts Series.

Read more about Loren McFalls and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“ … | community | noun: a feeling of interpersonal connection with others, as a result of sharing attitudes, interests, goals, or experiences…”

Join us for the second screening of FILM WORKS, Saturday 5/11 at 7pm on zoom, and witness Loren McFalls’ (@lorencatherine_ ) stunning exploration of interconnection with her film | community |. RSVP using the link in bio to receive the link!

Loren McFalls is a choreographer, performer, and teaching artist. Her dance training began in 1993 and continues indefinitely. She is most notably a member of the Drexel Dance Ensemble, co-founder of the femme. artists’ collective, and a board member with DanceATL. She currently teaches at Pointe of Grace, Atlanta Ballet, and is a live stream engineer for Core Dance. Her works have been featured in Philadelphia Fringe, DanceATL’s A.M. Collaborative Program, Spring for Spring & Fall for Fall Festivals, Zoetic Dance’s MIXTAPE, Full Radius Dance’s MAD Festival, Peace One Day, and Core Dance’s REEL Arts Series.

Read more about Loren McFalls and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio.

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“We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales”

We are so grateful for the warmth and intentional research Amalia (@amalia_cn_ ) has brought to LSDC and The Art Room Studio throughout 2023-2024 as one of our REAP artists!

Read details below on upcoming opportunities to connect with Amalia’s research “We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales”, and join Amalia at the Art Room Studio on MAY 17th for a workshop exploring journaling in dance and playing with archival processes.

Details below and on our website!

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After a winter of traveling and volunteering at farms in Mexico & Puerto Rico, Amalia is integrating and sharing her experiences through art and community offerings this spring! Digesting history, legacy, land, and family with our Philly community here.. and seeing how this journey radiates outward. This multifaceted project is called We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales; which is something @amalia_cn_ ‘s grandmother has said to them many times about their family’s land in Mexico.

Below are details for the events of this project! 🍊

MAY 8 & 9th, 7pm
Performance: We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales
Presented by @philadelphia_dance_projects
@ Christ Church Neighborhood House
$20 tickets

MAY 17th, 7-10pm
Workshop: “We could plant fruit trees—journaling in dance and playing with archival processes”
@leahsteindanceco, ArtRoom Studio
$5-15 sliding scale

“We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales”

We are so grateful for the warmth and intentional research Amalia (@amalia_cn_ ) has brought to LSDC and The Art Room Studio throughout 2023-2024 as one of our REAP artists!

Read details below on upcoming opportunities to connect with Amalia’s research “We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales”, and join Amalia at the Art Room Studio on MAY 17th for a workshop exploring journaling in dance and playing with archival processes.

Details below and on our website!

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Repost from @dirtbabyfarm

After a winter of traveling and volunteering at farms in Mexico & Puerto Rico, Amalia is integrating and sharing her experiences through art and community offerings this spring! Digesting history, legacy, land, and family with our Philly community here.. and seeing how this journey radiates outward. This multifaceted project is called We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales; which is something @amalia_cn_ ‘s grandmother has said to them many times about their family’s land in Mexico.

Below are details for the events of this project! 🍊

MAY 8 & 9th, 7pm
Performance: We could plant fruit trees/Podríamos plantar arboles frutales
Presented by @philadelphia_dance_projects
@ Christ Church Neighborhood House
$20 tickets

MAY 17th, 7-10pm
Workshop: “We could plant fruit trees—journaling in dance and playing with archival processes”
@leahsteindanceco, ArtRoom Studio
$5-15 sliding scale

“…Conjuring the absent presence of community during the global pandemic, this work is about listening and includes movement, marches, choreographies, music, and rites as a love letter to Pittsburgh…”

Witness Propelled Animal’s (@propelledanimals) spectacular exploration of a community in motion with SWITCH SIGNAL at FILM WORKS tomorrow SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater, SWITCH SIGNAL is a site-responsive film rooted in the technologies of imagination and mindfulness taught by Pittsburgh’s beloved Mister Rogers. The film was shot on location at Kelly Strayhorn Theater and throughout Pittsburgh with moments in The Hill District and at Carrie Furnace in June 2021. Conjuring the absent presence of community during the global pandemic, this work is about listening and includes movement, marches, choreographies, music, and rites as a love letter to Pittsburgh.Through performance we simultaneously mourn what we lose in our quest for growth, while embodying hope for the future….

**Full film description on our website - link in bio

Propelled Animals are: Esther Baker-Tarpaga (Philadelphia), Barber (Chicago), Heidi Wiren Bartlett (Pittsburgh), Raquel Monroe (Austin), Doc Courtney Jones (Boca Raton), Papa Djiga (Ouagadougou). Founded in 2014, Propelled Animals is a group of artists, dancers, scholars, musicians, and designers who embed innovative and provocative art in unconventional spaces. We are committed to creating work that interrogates, challenges, and ultimately attempts to dismantle the systemic “isms” of oppression. We adapt our projects and processes to address the specific needs of the communities we engage. Our performances encourage efficacy of the body, resilience, and radical tenderness as strategies for self-empowerment. Our work is centered on art as social action and ritual as performance…

**Read more about Propelled Animals and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS on our website, using the link in our bio

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“…Conjuring the absent presence of community during the global pandemic, this work is about listening and includes movement, marches, choreographies, music, and rites as a love letter to Pittsburgh…”

Witness Propelled Animal’s (@propelledanimals) spectacular exploration of a community in motion with SWITCH SIGNAL at FILM WORKS tomorrow SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Commissioned by Kelly Strayhorn Theater, SWITCH SIGNAL is a site-responsive film rooted in the technologies of imagination and mindfulness taught by Pittsburgh’s beloved Mister Rogers. The film was shot on location at Kelly Strayhorn Theater and throughout Pittsburgh with moments in The Hill District and at Carrie Furnace in June 2021. Conjuring the absent presence of community during the global pandemic, this work is about listening and includes movement, marches, choreographies, music, and rites as a love letter to Pittsburgh.Through performance we simultaneously mourn what we lose in our quest for growth, while embodying hope for the future….

**Full film description on our website - link in bio

Propelled Animals are: Esther Baker-Tarpaga (Philadelphia), Barber (Chicago), Heidi Wiren Bartlett (Pittsburgh), Raquel Monroe (Austin), Doc Courtney Jones (Boca Raton), Papa Djiga (Ouagadougou). Founded in 2014, Propelled Animals is a group of artists, dancers, scholars, musicians, and designers who embed innovative and provocative art in unconventional spaces. We are committed to creating work that interrogates, challenges, and ultimately attempts to dismantle the systemic “isms” of oppression. We adapt our projects and processes to address the specific needs of the communities we engage. Our performances encourage efficacy of the body, resilience, and radical tenderness as strategies for self-empowerment. Our work is centered on art as social action and ritual as performance…

**Read more about Propelled Animals and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS on our website, using the link in our bio

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“… I/we were playing with the idea of brothers of different races being family and how they need or don’t need each other…”

Take witness to the breath and connection in S’KIN to SKIN by Meredith Rainey (@meredith_rainey_dance ) at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

“S’KIN to SKIN” was conceived of as a video response/continuation of S’KIN a site-specific work that premiered In Kent, CT at the Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts. In S’KIN I/we were playing with the idea of brothers of different races being family and how they need or don’t need each other. In S’kin to SKIN we wanted to take some of the movement vocabulary, motifs and intention and put them outside - figuratively and literally.

Meredith Rainey began dancing at 15 in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale. In 1985, he became the first African American dancer of the Milwaukee Ballet. In 1987, he joined the newly formed Pennsylvania-Milwaukee Ballet, when the collaboration ended, he remained with the Pennsylvania Ballet for 17 years—much of that time as a soloist—until his retirement in 2006…

Read more about Meredith Rainey and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio

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“… I/we were playing with the idea of brothers of different races being family and how they need or don’t need each other…”

Take witness to the breath and connection in S’KIN to SKIN by Meredith Rainey (@meredith_rainey_dance ) at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

“S’KIN to SKIN” was conceived of as a video response/continuation of S’KIN a site-specific work that premiered In Kent, CT at the Earl Mosley Institute of the Arts. In S’KIN I/we were playing with the idea of brothers of different races being family and how they need or don’t need each other. In S’kin to SKIN we wanted to take some of the movement vocabulary, motifs and intention and put them outside - figuratively and literally.

Meredith Rainey began dancing at 15 in his hometown of Fort Lauderdale. In 1985, he became the first African American dancer of the Milwaukee Ballet. In 1987, he joined the newly formed Pennsylvania-Milwaukee Ballet, when the collaboration ended, he remained with the Pennsylvania Ballet for 17 years—much of that time as a soloist—until his retirement in 2006…

Read more about Meredith Rainey and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio

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“The hinges are off the office the door. The ham is on the face…”

Bask within the absurd tomfoolery inherent in the 9to5 worklife with Office Best Practices, brought to us by Circuitous Situationship (@roseluardo and @e.w.www ) at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

The hinges are off the office the door. The ham is on the face. The donut has been dipped in the coffee, and the dildo dipped in the donut. Somewhere between a dance video and an industrial film, Office Best Practices is a work out, and an absurd study of deviant work-craft.

Circuitous Situationship was born when the inimitable performer, Crackhead Barney, thought Emmett was Rose’s husband at a show in which Rose shared her persona, Shelly Nut, and Emmett shared their persona, Yung&Bizzy. The two mingle their multitudes in this project for fun, for freaks, for family, forever.

Read more about Circuitous Situationship and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio

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“The hinges are off the office the door. The ham is on the face…”

Bask within the absurd tomfoolery inherent in the 9to5 worklife with Office Best Practices, brought to us by Circuitous Situationship (@roseluardo and @e.w.www ) at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

The hinges are off the office the door. The ham is on the face. The donut has been dipped in the coffee, and the dildo dipped in the donut. Somewhere between a dance video and an industrial film, Office Best Practices is a work out, and an absurd study of deviant work-craft.

Circuitous Situationship was born when the inimitable performer, Crackhead Barney, thought Emmett was Rose’s husband at a show in which Rose shared her persona, Shelly Nut, and Emmett shared their persona, Yung&Bizzy. The two mingle their multitudes in this project for fun, for freaks, for family, forever.

Read more about Circuitous Situationship and all the other brilliants artists sharing works through FILM WORKS using the link in our bio

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“They arrived with costumes and makeup, and just played...”

Immerse yourself in a radiant, playful-flow in And Eat It Too (I always do the dishes right on time) from Kayla Bobalek, Julia Bryck, and Maddie Hopfield at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

The last time Bobalek (@sneaky.veg ), Bryck (@jbryckhouse ), and Hopfield (@wibmd ) were all in the studio together was in February 2020. They throught their rehearsals would be on pause for a couple of week. Instead, they grieved and waited. When they finally returned to the studio in August, it was like being let our for recess. They arrived with costumes and makeup, and just played. Seriously, collaboratively, continuously. And eat it too (I always do the dishes right on time) shares their joy in movement and togetherness.

Kayla Bobalek, Julia Bryck, and Maddie Hopfield met in 2013 while studying dance at Bard College. They have collaborated on and off for many years, performing work in Philadelphia and New York…

(Read more about Kayla Bobalek, Julia Bryck, and Maddie Hopfield using the link in our bio)

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“They arrived with costumes and makeup, and just played...”

Immerse yourself in a radiant, playful-flow in And Eat It Too (I always do the dishes right on time) from Kayla Bobalek, Julia Bryck, and Maddie Hopfield at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio-basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

The last time Bobalek (@sneaky.veg ), Bryck (@jbryckhouse ), and Hopfield (@wibmd ) were all in the studio together was in February 2020. They throught their rehearsals would be on pause for a couple of week. Instead, they grieved and waited. When they finally returned to the studio in August, it was like being let our for recess. They arrived with costumes and makeup, and just played. Seriously, collaboratively, continuously. And eat it too (I always do the dishes right on time) shares their joy in movement and togetherness.

Kayla Bobalek, Julia Bryck, and Maddie Hopfield met in 2013 while studying dance at Bard College. They have collaborated on and off for many years, performing work in Philadelphia and New York…

(Read more about Kayla Bobalek, Julia Bryck, and Maddie Hopfield using the link in our bio)

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Six dancers explore the slipperiness of connection, to themselves and to each other, shifting and snapping between locations.

Traverse space, relationship and the body in Ella-Gabriel Mason's video The Road Is Long at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio Basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Click the link in our bio to learn more about all the brilliant artists and films/videos we are sharing at FILM WORKS. Looking forward to connecting with you!

Ella-Gabriel Mason is an artmaker, educator and bodyworker, they combine rigorous academic research with lived experience, words with dance, brain with body, living in the tension between ways of knowing and methods of being...
(Read Ella-Gabriel Mason's full bio using the link in our bio)

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Six dancers explore the slipperiness of connection, to themselves and to each other, shifting and snapping between locations.

Traverse space, relationship and the body in Ella-Gabriel Mason's video The Road Is Long at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio Basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Click the link in our bio to learn more about all the brilliant artists and films/videos we are sharing at FILM WORKS. Looking forward to connecting with you!

Ella-Gabriel Mason is an artmaker, educator and bodyworker, they combine rigorous academic research with lived experience, words with dance, brain with body, living in the tension between ways of knowing and methods of being...
(Read Ella-Gabriel Mason's full bio using the link in our bio)

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"...Watch what happens when the up-close and intimate gets big."

Experience Saskia Globig 's (@glowbig.or.go.home) world-blending video, Switchback Swan Song at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio Basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Switchback Swan Song: This is a series of rebounds: coming together and apart and pushing to support, in play, anger, and affection. Witnessing and feeling seen are magnified through mediation. Watch what happens when the up-close and intimate gets big.

Saskia Globig and Michael Ipsen perform together for live audiences and for film. They have collaborated on installations, publication design, and curation for projects at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Icebox, AUTOMAT Gallery, and HOT BED Micro Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as at Artspace New Haven...
(Read Saskia Globig's full bio using the link in our bio)

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"...Watch what happens when the up-close and intimate gets big."

Experience Saskia Globig 's (@glowbig.or.go.home) world-blending video, Switchback Swan Song at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY, APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio Basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Switchback Swan Song: This is a series of rebounds: coming together and apart and pushing to support, in play, anger, and affection. Witnessing and feeling seen are magnified through mediation. Watch what happens when the up-close and intimate gets big.

Saskia Globig and Michael Ipsen perform together for live audiences and for film. They have collaborated on installations, publication design, and curation for projects at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Icebox, AUTOMAT Gallery, and HOT BED Micro Gallery in Philadelphia, as well as at Artspace New Haven...
(Read Saskia Globig's full bio using the link in our bio)

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“... Radical ecofeminism celebrates the relationship between women and nature through the revival of ancient rituals, creating a source of inspiration and empowerment...”

Joining us at our first FILM WORKS screening is Britt Whitmoyer Fishel (@bfandartists ) with her stunning video Cognatus.

Connect with Britt and many other brilliant artists at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio Basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Cognatus on the larger scale investigates ecofeminism and the patriarchal mechanisms that assimilate women and nature. Both often devalued and exploited, seeking elevation and liberation, the relationship between them is a rhizome of interconnections...
(full video description using the link in bio)

Britt Whitmoyer Fishel is an award-winning choreographer, screendance maker, educator, author, and scholar. Her work examines relationships between the ephemeral nature of live performance and the permanence of dance in the digital sphere, with a research focus on the rhizomes of feminism, gender gap, access, and community.
(Read Britt Whitmoyer Fishel's full bio using the link in our bio)

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“... Radical ecofeminism celebrates the relationship between women and nature through the revival of ancient rituals, creating a source of inspiration and empowerment...”

Joining us at our first FILM WORKS screening is Britt Whitmoyer Fishel (@bfandartists ) with her stunning video Cognatus.

Connect with Britt and many other brilliant artists at FILM WORKS this SUNDAY APRIL 21 at 7pm in The Art Room Studio Basement (2329 s 3rd st.)

Cognatus on the larger scale investigates ecofeminism and the patriarchal mechanisms that assimilate women and nature. Both often devalued and exploited, seeking elevation and liberation, the relationship between them is a rhizome of interconnections...
(full video description using the link in bio)

Britt Whitmoyer Fishel is an award-winning choreographer, screendance maker, educator, author, and scholar. Her work examines relationships between the ephemeral nature of live performance and the permanence of dance in the digital sphere, with a research focus on the rhizomes of feminism, gender gap, access, and community.
(Read Britt Whitmoyer Fishel's full bio using the link in our bio)

image descriptions in alt text - written by artists.

PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us this Spring 2024 online and in person for FILM WORKS.

FILM WORKS is a three-part screening series celebrating films and videos by artists connected to Philadelphia experimenting with movement and the body.

Curated with Keila Cordova (@madebykloca )

Read the full program and RSVP: leahsteindanceco.org/filmworks
(link in bio)

→ April 21th • 7pm • The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
Britt Fishel and Artists
Saskia Globig
Ella-Gabe Mason
Julia Bryck, Kayla Bobalek, & Maddie Hopfield
Rose Luardo and Emmett Wilson
Meredith Rainey
Propelled Animals

→ May 11th • 7pm • Zoom
Loren McFalls
Oona Taper
Christy Walsh
Amber Hongsermeier

→ May 18th • 7pm • The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action
Megan Mizanty
Irina Varina
Leslie Bush

PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT:
Join us this Spring 2024 online and in person for FILM WORKS.

FILM WORKS is a three-part screening series celebrating films and videos by artists connected to Philadelphia experimenting with movement and the body.

Curated with Keila Cordova (@madebykloca )

Read the full program and RSVP: leahsteindanceco.org/filmworks
(link in bio)

→ April 21th • 7pm • The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
Britt Fishel and Artists
Saskia Globig
Ella-Gabe Mason
Julia Bryck, Kayla Bobalek, & Maddie Hopfield
Rose Luardo and Emmett Wilson
Meredith Rainey
Propelled Animals

→ May 11th • 7pm • Zoom
Loren McFalls
Oona Taper
Christy Walsh
Amber Hongsermeier

→ May 18th • 7pm • The Art Room Studio (2329 s 3rd st)
Aviva Geismar/Drastic Action
Megan Mizanty
Irina Varina
Leslie Bush

We are completely inspired by the creative care and curation brought into The Art Room Studio and to STUDIO WORKS by gen deal (@gen.aissance ) ! Get an exclusive look into/experience gen’s practice/process as a florist, writer, musician, performing artist, curator, etc + at STUDIO WORKS – JAN 20th - 7pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Through facilitating the stretch club at The Art Room Studio gen has explored different ideas about the smallest parts of ourselves creating and wants to share that process by demonstrating a stretch, reciting treatments for future projects, and a small arrangement that will turn into an instillation for gen’s curated floral music show installation January 21st, a part of a collaboration with Sound Museum Collective.

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

🌸 BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE (so much more!)🌸

Join gen in collaboration with the sound museum collective (@sound_museum_collective ) irl at The Art Room Studio or url (via the link in their bio) on Jan 21st from 1-6pm for PHILA FLORADORA a glorious floral music video wonder featuring live performances from local artists @full.of.sand @east.aj @andy_loebs @katnzinghasdead @g0gavine

FLORADORA flier made by @new.haunted.romantic.world

We are completely inspired by the creative care and curation brought into The Art Room Studio and to STUDIO WORKS by gen deal (@gen.aissance ) ! Get an exclusive look into/experience gen’s practice/process as a florist, writer, musician, performing artist, curator, etc + at STUDIO WORKS – JAN 20th - 7pm @ The Art Room Studio!

Through facilitating the stretch club at The Art Room Studio gen has explored different ideas about the smallest parts of ourselves creating and wants to share that process by demonstrating a stretch, reciting treatments for future projects, and a small arrangement that will turn into an instillation for gen’s curated floral music show installation January 21st, a part of a collaboration with Sound Museum Collective.

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

🌸 BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE (so much more!)🌸

Join gen in collaboration with the sound museum collective (@sound_museum_collective ) irl at The Art Room Studio or url (via the link in their bio) on Jan 21st from 1-6pm for PHILA FLORADORA a glorious floral music video wonder featuring live performances from local artists @full.of.sand @east.aj @andy_loebs @katnzinghasdead @g0gavine

FLORADORA flier made by @new.haunted.romantic.world

alt •a•e• r
is a work in progress that embodies our best selves! Or rather, our other selves, the ones you see, the ones we want you to see! It is a phone call to the ancestors and family that made us who we are now…who are we now?

We are honored to be-holding the practice of Mikah Simone (@mikahbd ), with collaborators Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious @leila_delicious ) and Vanessa Rosensweet (@ness_rose_ ) at STUDIO WORKS – JAN 20th - 7pm @ The Art Room Studio! Learn more about Mikah Simone, the full program, and accessibility details using the links in our bio.

Mikah Simone is a Jewish-Egyptian-American dance artist who is fascinated by the memories and queerness their body holds. With Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet, the three explore how resistance, conversation, food, parties, and love encapsulate all the bodies they hold together.

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete control of how and what they share.

alt •a•e• r
is a work in progress that embodies our best selves! Or rather, our other selves, the ones you see, the ones we want you to see! It is a phone call to the ancestors and family that made us who we are now…who are we now?

We are honored to be-holding the practice of Mikah Simone (@mikahbd ), with collaborators Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious @leila_delicious ) and Vanessa Rosensweet (@ness_rose_ ) at STUDIO WORKS – JAN 20th - 7pm @ The Art Room Studio! Learn more about Mikah Simone, the full program, and accessibility details using the links in our bio.

Mikah Simone is a Jewish-Egyptian-American dance artist who is fascinated by the memories and queerness their body holds. With Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious) and Vanessa Rosensweet, the three explore how resistance, conversation, food, parties, and love encapsulate all the bodies they hold together.

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete control of how and what they share.

Ring in the New Year with STUDIO WORKS !

Join us on January 20th at The Art Room Studio for an evening of experiments in altar-making, breath, movement, and moment featuring local artists (gen)ise paige deal (@gen.aissance ), with the sound museum collective (@sound_museum_collective ), and Mikah Simone (@mikahbd ), with Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious @leila_delicious ) and Vanessa Rosensweet (@ness_rose_ ).

Read the full program and accessibility details using the link in our bio!

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete control of how and what they share.

Ring in the New Year with STUDIO WORKS !

Join us on January 20th at The Art Room Studio for an evening of experiments in altar-making, breath, movement, and moment featuring local artists (gen)ise paige deal (@gen.aissance ), with the sound museum collective (@sound_museum_collective ), and Mikah Simone (@mikahbd ), with Aya Razzaz (Leila Delicious @leila_delicious ) and Vanessa Rosensweet (@ness_rose_ ).

Read the full program and accessibility details using the link in our bio!

STUDIO WORKS
January 20th
The Art Room Studio - 2329 s 3rd st, second fl.
Doors @ 7pm
$10 - $25 (pay at door - no one turned away for lack of funds)

Accessibility: The Art Room Studio is in a building with a stoop and up 3 flights of stairs. There is no elevator. There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building. Please mask!

Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete control of how and what they share.

🌞 Reflecting on 2023 and dreaming of 2024. 🌕

Celebrate LSDC with a tax-deductible, donation and sustain our creative practice in the Art Room Studio and beyond! Make a donation or become a monthly supporter using the link in our bio + on our website leahsteindanceco.org.

In 2024, LSDC will continue to fortify our creative work by cultivating a resilient, artist-centered community for experimentation, exploration, and research in movement and performance practice. The Art Room Studio, our home in South Philly, supports movement artists and programming, celebrating a diversity of ideas and perspectives for meaningful exchange and connection.

No donation is too small and will make a HUGE impact - support our community to connect and create. Thank you for launching us toward the New Year!

Pictured: Kimya Jackson, Josie Smith, and Shannon Brooks. Carry with you this place, The Art Room Studio, Nov. 2023

Image by Aubrey Donisch @aubrey_rsr

🌞 Reflecting on 2023 and dreaming of 2024. 🌕

Celebrate LSDC with a tax-deductible, donation and sustain our creative practice in the Art Room Studio and beyond! Make a donation or become a monthly supporter using the link in our bio + on our website leahsteindanceco.org.

In 2024, LSDC will continue to fortify our creative work by cultivating a resilient, artist-centered community for experimentation, exploration, and research in movement and performance practice. The Art Room Studio, our home in South Philly, supports movement artists and programming, celebrating a diversity of ideas and perspectives for meaningful exchange and connection.

No donation is too small and will make a HUGE impact - support our community to connect and create. Thank you for launching us toward the New Year!

Pictured: Kimya Jackson, Josie Smith, and Shannon Brooks. Carry with you this place, The Art Room Studio, Nov. 2023

Image by Aubrey Donisch @aubrey_rsr

There is still time to join ~stretch club~ !

Connect with others, loosen up, and spend time listening to your body this winter at The Art Room Studio with artist and human Gen Deal @gen.aissance !

Then join us in the new year on January 20th for STUDIO WORKS with Gen Deal (@gen.aissance) and Mikah Baumrin-Daniels (@mikahbd).

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Hi y’all 👋🏾🌸🫶🏾
My biggest ally to art making is stretching. We hold a lot of energy in our smallest cramped up spaces within and I want to share and explore movement to the vessels between container and ocean, in all of us. Please join me at my residency with @leahsteindanceco :) please bring a water bottle!!
$5 suggested donations (to support me a living run of the mill artist) to Venmo @genise-deal cash app: $genisedeal
Afterwards if you have time and want to help me workshop some scenes I’m writing for future projects, I’ll provide a light dinner(pizza) and snack:)

Flyer by: @iidkkkkkkkkk 🤪🌹

There is still time to join ~stretch club~ !

Connect with others, loosen up, and spend time listening to your body this winter at The Art Room Studio with artist and human Gen Deal @gen.aissance !

Then join us in the new year on January 20th for STUDIO WORKS with Gen Deal (@gen.aissance) and Mikah Baumrin-Daniels (@mikahbd).

___ Repost @gen.aissance

Hi y’all 👋🏾🌸🫶🏾
My biggest ally to art making is stretching. We hold a lot of energy in our smallest cramped up spaces within and I want to share and explore movement to the vessels between container and ocean, in all of us. Please join me at my residency with @leahsteindanceco :) please bring a water bottle!!
$5 suggested donations (to support me a living run of the mill artist) to Venmo @genise-deal cash app: $genisedeal
Afterwards if you have time and want to help me workshop some scenes I’m writing for future projects, I’ll provide a light dinner(pizza) and snack:)

Flyer by: @iidkkkkkkkkk 🤪🌹

LSDC is thrilled to be awarded $5K through the #creativesectorflexfund program of the @paartscouncil!

With this support we can nourish the ecology of our creative practices and organizational structures in 2024!

We are grateful for the support and clarity offered by @asiminachremos as we write grants and articulate the evolution of our mission statement. Thank you Asimina for sharing your powers with us over the years!❤️❤️

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📯Congrats to @leahsteindanceco for being awarded $5K through the #creativesectorflexfund program of the @paartscouncil! I am proud to be assisting this amazing Philly arts organization as it continues to evolve in its mission to create site-specific performances that evoke and illuminate the living histories of built and natural spaces. #artistcareerstrategist #artistcareer #nonprofitarts #dancecompany #philadelphiaart #philadelphiadance

LSDC is thrilled to be awarded $5K through the #creativesectorflexfund program of the @paartscouncil!

With this support we can nourish the ecology of our creative practices and organizational structures in 2024!

We are grateful for the support and clarity offered by @asiminachremos as we write grants and articulate the evolution of our mission statement. Thank you Asimina for sharing your powers with us over the years!❤️❤️

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📯Congrats to @leahsteindanceco for being awarded $5K through the #creativesectorflexfund program of the @paartscouncil! I am proud to be assisting this amazing Philly arts organization as it continues to evolve in its mission to create site-specific performances that evoke and illuminate the living histories of built and natural spaces. #artistcareerstrategist #artistcareer #nonprofitarts #dancecompany #philadelphiaart #philadelphiadance

Embracing LSDC’s emerging research process ‘carry with you this place’. Tracing memories from our Subcircle residency in Maine this past summer - pictured here is Maddie Hopfield and Josie Smith at the beach.

We are looking forward to digging back into our practice together this fall at our home in the art room studio!

LSDC’s ongoing research performance project ‘carry with you this place’ digs into our deep listening movement sound practice and weaves in personal story, images and metaphors.

Embracing LSDC’s emerging research process ‘carry with you this place’. Tracing memories from our Subcircle residency in Maine this past summer - pictured here is Maddie Hopfield and Josie Smith at the beach.

We are looking forward to digging back into our practice together this fall at our home in the art room studio!

LSDC’s ongoing research performance project ‘carry with you this place’ digs into our deep listening movement sound practice and weaves in personal story, images and metaphors.

Thinking about SCREENBODIES but have questions? Read our FAQ and/or reach out to us here, @asiminachremos , or @shalynbro with any questions!

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If you've got more Qs please DM me or @shalynbro
#leahsteindancecompany

Thinking about SCREENBODIES but have questions? Read our FAQ and/or reach out to us here, @asiminachremos , or @shalynbro with any questions!

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If you've got more Qs please DM me or @shalynbro
#leahsteindancecompany

SCREENBODIES starting this September!

Get connected to this new synchronous/asynchronous practicum developed by Asimina Chremos (@asiminachremos) with assistance from Shannon Brooks (@shalynbro ).

Full details and registration page on our website or by using the link in our bio!
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Hello Everyone! I am thrilled to announce that the registration page for SCREENBODIES is open. Please join @shalynbro and I on this exciting journey! Thanks to @leahsteindanceco for hosting us. You can find it on this webpage: https://www.leahsteindanceco.org/screenbodies Also, link in bio!

SCREENBODIES starting this September!

Get connected to this new synchronous/asynchronous practicum developed by Asimina Chremos (@asiminachremos) with assistance from Shannon Brooks (@shalynbro ).

Full details and registration page on our website or by using the link in our bio!
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Repost from @asiminachremos
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Hello Everyone! I am thrilled to announce that the registration page for SCREENBODIES is open. Please join @shalynbro and I on this exciting journey! Thanks to @leahsteindanceco for hosting us. You can find it on this webpage: https://www.leahsteindanceco.org/screenbodies Also, link in bio!

We are delighted to be hosting the titillating Circuitous Situationship (Rose Luardo and Emmett Wilson) at STUDIO WORKS – THIS SATURDAY JULY 29th - 8pm @ the art room studio!

"An Undertaking" is a diddy to a dirge, a compost pile of characters, a eulogy of ourselves always shifting. As undertakers, it is our business to prepare for burial, and what we bury carries on underground. The arrangements have been made, like a bed once messy with little and big deaths, soiled, but planted with seedlings seeking sun while rooting down in rot. Come shed something if not a tear or a smile while Rose and Emmett lick their psychic-plates clean and compost scraps of heartfelt wishes with soft smiles and necessary neurosis. This piece is interactive by choice- choose your own adventure to witness wonder and wit.

Studio Works
July 29 - 8pm
Art Room Studio - 2nd fl, 2329 s 3rd st, Philly
$10 - $35+ (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Full program and accessibility information using link in bio!

Circuitous Situationship was born when the inimitable comedian, Crackhead Barney, thought Emmett was Rose’s husband at a show in which Rose shared her persona, Shelly Nut, and Emmett shared their persona, Yung&Bizzy. The two mingle their multitudes in this project for fun, for freaks, for family, forever.

Learn more about Rose and Emmet at leahsteindanceco.org!

We are delighted to be hosting the titillating Circuitous Situationship (Rose Luardo and Emmett Wilson) at STUDIO WORKS – THIS SATURDAY JULY 29th - 8pm @ the art room studio!

"An Undertaking" is a diddy to a dirge, a compost pile of characters, a eulogy of ourselves always shifting. As undertakers, it is our business to prepare for burial, and what we bury carries on underground. The arrangements have been made, like a bed once messy with little and big deaths, soiled, but planted with seedlings seeking sun while rooting down in rot. Come shed something if not a tear or a smile while Rose and Emmett lick their psychic-plates clean and compost scraps of heartfelt wishes with soft smiles and necessary neurosis. This piece is interactive by choice- choose your own adventure to witness wonder and wit.

Studio Works
July 29 - 8pm
Art Room Studio - 2nd fl, 2329 s 3rd st, Philly
$10 - $35+ (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Full program and accessibility information using link in bio!

Circuitous Situationship was born when the inimitable comedian, Crackhead Barney, thought Emmett was Rose’s husband at a show in which Rose shared her persona, Shelly Nut, and Emmett shared their persona, Yung&Bizzy. The two mingle their multitudes in this project for fun, for freaks, for family, forever.

Learn more about Rose and Emmet at leahsteindanceco.org!

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