July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
December 12th 2024 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Featuring: AZ Espinoza, tor breen, and Nerissa Tunnessen
December 12th, 2024
doors at 6:45
show at 7pm
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 located in a building with a 4-step stoop and is on the 2nd floor of the building. 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.
top to bottom: AZ Espinoza, tor breen, Nerissa Tennessen
AZ stands in a forest and looks at the camera. photo credit: AZ Espinoza
AZ stands, leaning away from an all encompassing pink light while wearing a vest made of belts. photo credit: Lu Donovan, Micah Lockman-Fine, Trinity Dahmus
AZ (left) Lu Donovan (center) Severin Black (right) sit in a circle on a floor in front of a projected image of themselves. photo credit: Jorge Cousineau
AZ stands in a forest and looks at the camera. photo credit: AZ Espinoza
AZ Espinoza (they/he)
In 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
Artist Bio:
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. follow them online: @azsp_noza
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A femme in a white dress with long black hair plays a violin sitting on the floor as another femme in a white dress with short hair lays over their legs with chest up with arms reaching backwards. photo credit: Isaac Harrell
There are two femmes in white dresses on a red washed stage. The one on the left side of the photo has short pulled back hair and is pulling a sheet that seems stuck on yarn. The other person has long black hair and watches with a shadowed face while playing the violin. photo credit: Isaac Harrell
Two femmes in white dresses are back to back. One plays a violin and is leaning back over the other’s pelvis and back. There is a ball of yarn that is unraveling at their feet. photo credit: Rosie Simmons
A femme in a white dress with long black hair plays a violin sitting on the floor as another femme in a white dress with short hair lays over their legs with chest up with arms reaching backwards. photo credit: Isaac Harrell
Nerissa Tunnessen
This work is in its very beginning phases, a new project for dance and violin.
Featured collaborator: Sam Xiao Cody
Artist 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.
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tor, a white person in a helmet and tank top, bites his shoulder photo credit: mik phillips
outdoors, tor, a white person in a helmet and tank top, holds a large gray stuffed bear by the cheek photo credit: mik phillips
in a grassy area, tor, a white person in a helmet, tank top, and shorts, jumps onto a large gray stuffed bear photo credit: mik phillips
tor, a white person in a helmet and tank top, bites his shoulder photo credit: mik phillips
tor breen
this experiment is about where and how satisfaction begins and ends. 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.
Artist 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. follow them online at: @toebreen (IG)
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