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In Machine Room Door four dancers with a shared drive towards heightened physicality, explore the edges of what the container of the performance environment can hold.
The dancers create and diffuse the performative space of the venue, navigating between material, structural relationships to the body, and imaginative environments and states. Through physical investigation of precarity, safety, and effort, the desires underlying these systems emerge.


Performers: Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Laura Witsken, Brendan Bunny Elefante
Lighting Design: Shana Crawford
Costumes: Brita
Sound Design: Skyler Skjelset 
Scenic Design: Chloe Friend

Performed March 2025at Pageant (Brooklyn)


photos 1-3 by Angelo Fiore
photo 4 by Vita Taurke

Demo body is a collection of practices and body materials developed in private and public spaces in relation to built structures, such as skyscrapers, bridges, and interconnecting roads. The movement essential to the stability of these structures is a score for developing a presence and tolerance for interiority. The performance of these materials happens in three distinct sites - the passageway between the two houses, the concrete behind the house, and the border between the meadow and the turf.


Performers: Zoe Papaeracleous, Kamilah Udomsap, Ellie Quiring
Performed July 2023 on Governors Island
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performer: Ella Dawn W-S
performed at Lawn Chair Dances, rooftop show (May 2021)

In It’s a beautiful day, too bad it won’t last and neither will you, personal histories collide with our limited collective imagination for the tangibility of grief as dancers reach, repair, and refashion across the surface of a performance. Everyday materials and conversations are distorted to expand our imaginations and create memorial landscapes, idols, and altars.


Performers: Jade Manns, Zoe Papaeracleous, Owen Prum, Ellie Quiring
Costume Contributions: E G Condon
Video Design: Dominika Jezewska

Performed at University Settlement as part of the Emerging Guest Artist Series, December 2019