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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

you(logy)/me(logy) is a two part work. This work sifts through a vast and largely disorganized and diffuse archive of personal and artistic production. 

The first part, you(logy), is a multimedia installation and live performance presented in the conference room of University Settlement. Projected text tracking intertwining losses and parallels creates a container for personal archival materials to unfold in a performative space. 



me(logy), takes place immediately after in the upstairs theatre space of Speyer Hall. Reconstructed movement material developed as part of the previous work is enacted as an experiment in memory and decay. Video projection of early attempts at this task, as well as additional video footage of movement across bridges memorializes markers of time and space in a concrete way. 



Performers: Kiera Bono, Carlyn Kane, Zoe Papaeracleous, Ella Wasserman-Smith
Performed at University Settlement April 2019