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, early stage rehearsal directing 
Lilach Orenstein: Early research phase production support

The performance on Friday September 18th will be followed by a dialogue facilitated by disability community dance artist, scholar, and teacher Elisabeth Motley. 

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

Valentina Baché was born into a cacophony of color and macaws, in the isolation of the Caribbean jungle in Playa del Carmen, México. They learned the language of movement before they learned to speak, taught by sea, dogs, and blood. At fifteen, they skipped high school to attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock, later transferring to Hunter College, where they graduated in 2020. Since then, they have done everything in their power to love and share.In a lifelong battle against the imperialist soul,they have found that love is the reason and that greed must be expelled from within each day. Through a spiritual devotion to dance as prayer, they explore the magic of nature and reveal the surreal ways in which we all contribute to cycles of harm.From this devotion, they have birthed a new technique, practice, and way of resisting. They spin because the divine is always spiraling, and they bark because the dog is a mirror reflecting our own malleability.They believe it is in the suppression of rage that energy becomes dangerous instead of transformative.Valentina is a multidisciplinary artist, a performer, textile artist, sculptor, and designer of beauty, violence, and truth, all at once.

Charlotte Hendrickson is a Brooklyn based choreographer, dancer, and yoga instructor. Their work has been shown at Dixon Place, Judson Memorial Church, Theater for The New City, and The House of Yes. They received a B.A. in dance from Bard College. Charlotte has been featured in works by Aileen Passloff, Catherine Gallant, Toby Armour, Sondra Loring, Noemie LaFrance, Susan Osberg, Anjoli Chadha, EmmaGrace Skove-Epes, and Megan Minturn.

Elisabeth Motley (PhD) is a disabled choreographer, scholar, and teacher whose work potentializes disability through epistemological and practice-as-research dance methodologies and methods. She has been a Fulbright US-UK Scholar, a Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist in Residence, a Movement Research Artist in Residence, a Center for Performance Research Artist in Residence, and a Dance/NYC Disability Dance Social Justice Fellow. Motley has presented choreography at Movement Research at Judson, Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Festival Oltre Passo Italy, and Springboard Danse Montreal, among others. Her writing has been published in Choreographic Practices, Dance Chronicle, Dance Research, The Drama Review, and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive. She is an Associate Professor of Dance at Northeastern University - NYC. https://www.elisabethmotley.com/

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

Accessibility:
The venue is directly accessible by way of one flight of stairs. If you need an elevator for access there is a freight elevator available, at 200 6th street, right down the block, though in order to get to the elevator, you need to ascend 5 steps. 

An air purifier will be running in the space during all performances. 

There will be flexible seating options and options for viewing the work while lying down, and standing during the work is also welcome. Some cushions will be available. 

The light of a projector will be shining in your direction for brief moments during the performance (30 seconds or less). 

*If you have access needs that are not addressed above or questions about access, please contact us- there is a contact form embedded within the ticket link that you can use prior to buying tickets. We will do our best to answer and accommodate them.