July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
August 24th 2024 ⎯ 7:30pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Featuring: Ray Toy, Leigh Huster, and Patricia Graham
August 24th 2024
7:30pm
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.
Artists are given a fixed rate and all proceeds go into a Studio Works pool that support future Studio Works programs.
Special thanks to our production manager Christina Gesualdi. Special thanks to our programming organizer Shannon Brooks.
Accessibility:
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We ask audience members to wear a mask. Performers may or may not be wearing masks while performing.
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The Art Room Studio is in a building with a 4-step stoop.
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The Art Room Studio is on the 2nd fl of the building.
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There is no elevator.
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There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building.
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If you are taking public transportation, the studio is close to the 57 bus route, and about a 20 minute walk from the BSL Snyder stop.
left to right: Patricia Graham, Leigh Huster, Ray Toy
Non-binary person with curly hair standing outside in a dark blue collared jacket. Photo credit: Ray Toy
Non-binary person with messy hair sitting outside shirtless in jeans. Photo credit: Ray Toy
Non-binary person in lavender baseball hat sitting outside shirtless in jeans. Photo credit: Ray Toy
Non-binary person with curly hair standing outside in a dark blue collared jacket. Photo credit: Ray Toy
RAY TOY
Ray Toy will lead the audience on a peripatetic journey powered by love, irony, and humor.
Artist 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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four performers are touching the trunk of a tree. Photo credit: Leigh Huster
four performers are touching the trunk of a tree. Photo credit: Leigh Huster
LEIGH HUSTER (they/them)
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.
Featured collaborators: shannon brooks (they/she), kimya jackson (she/her)
Artist Bio:
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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picture of woman's back, including spine. photo credit: Maya Jackson
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picture of woman's twisting back with hand. photo credit: Maya Jackson
picture of woman's back, including spine. photo credit: Maya Jackson
PATRICIA GRAHAM
neuro-box-reshuffle - an immersive video experience.
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