Fluid Exchange

Thursday through Saturday,
September 17th, 18th & 19th
7:30pm

TICKETS

$25 general admission
$30 supporter
$50 big supporter
$20 early bird special, expires September 7th. 

Created by EmmaGrace Skove-Epes in collaboration with the performers
Valentina Baché: Performance, production support, textile fabrication, and rigging
Charlotte Hendrickson: Performance, production support, rehearsal directing 
Lilach Orenstein: Early research phase production support

Fluid Exchange, an installation and performance, calls on sensuous absurdity, tactile curiosity, eroticism, shapeshifting, and slow time as ways into contending with dynamic disability and medical mythologies of anatomical “normativity” and “deformity”. Projecting larger than life images of my own body in duet with an anatomical model of a pelvis onto surfaces of a room- floor, ceiling, walls, windows, curtains, mirrors, and vessels of water, this work resituates small and seemingly subtle bodily actions as huge and multiplying. Internal and external topographies meld, slip between, and refract one another. Sensation is cast as its own form of language that simultaneously traces and transforms memories and fantasies of moving, surfaced amidst my own periods of very limited mobility. 

EmmaGrace Skove-Epes is a Brooklyn-born and based artist, performer, educator, bodyworker, and former caregiver. Her performance work has lived at venues including the Center for Performance Research, the 92nd street Y, TheaterLab, Theater for the New City, Roulette Intermedium, New York Live Arts, AUNTS, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Riverside Park, Triskelion Arts, and Chez Bushwick. She has been a collaborating performer in the works of choreographers Edisa Weeks, marion spencer, Julie Mayo, RoseAnne Spradlin, Jill Sigman, Kathy Westwater, Mariangela Lopez, Jon Kinzel, Dianne McIntyre, Jodi Melnick, Peniel Guerrier, Jonathan González, Mor Mendel, Jesse Phillips-Fein, Nadia Tykulsker, Sondra Loring, Noemie LaFrance, Leslie Boyce, Maria Simpson, and Aileen Passloff.

EmmaGrace has taught dance studies, writing, movement practice, improvisation, and composition at studios and colleges including Sarah Lawrence College, Bard College, Stella Adler/NYU Tisch, the American Dance Festival, DanceWave, Failspace, Third Root, and New York Live Arts in partnership with James Baldwin High School. She has a somatics/bodywork practice influenced by the Feeling Fascia method, Hypermobile Accessible Proprioceptive Therapy, and the MELT Method, and has organized with Artists Co-Creating Real Equity, European Dissent, Resource Generation, and Bodies For Bodies.

Website: emmagraceskove-epes.com
Instagram: @emmagracedances

Image credit: Video still by Iki Nakagawa, picturing EmmaGrace Skove-Epes