ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

For over a decade, New York based artist and choreographer Moriah Evans has researched the social and political conditions that create dance, developing her own choreographic systems. Evans considers dance to be a mechanism that both conducts and conveys empathy between people, offering a space to explore the human condition in its most vulnerable states. Her work also explores the history of dance to consider its past, present and possible futures, interweaving choreography with somatic body practices: viewed through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory—her dances make unseen societal structures and sentiments visible through movement.

For Performa Studio, Evans will explore how we might create a radical dance studio, one that is not just a rehearsal space for movement, but a space for exploring human consciousness and the mind-body relationship, in all its forms. Every person has their own singular, lived embodied experience, that is unique to them. However, we all also participate in collective knowledge structures of movement that are influenced by the cultures we inhabit, conveyed by the title Every Body Knows.

This program of classes, events, and open rehearsals, explores how we bring our individual experience of embodiment together as a group and to consider what it means to be conscious. Evans has created a series of scores that consider where consciousness lives in the mind-body and how it might become a collective force. The scores will unfold over ten days in open rehearsals with dance collaborators Bria Bacon, Cyril Baldy, Malcolm-x Betts, Lizzie Feidelson, João dos Santos Martins, and Varinia Canto Vila. Participatory dance and somatic workshops transpire alongside discussions and musical events. See the schedule for details of classes, open rehearsals, and events.

ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.