July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
May 23rd 2025 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Featuring: kaijo caggins and Xander Cobb
May 23rd, 2025
doors at 6:45
show at 7pm
The Art Room Studio: 2329 s 3rd st. - 2nd fl
$15 - $35 • pay at door
no one turned away for lack of funds
Studio Works is an informal performance series for local artists to share work in any stage of their process. Artists are given studio space and complete full agency over how and what they share.
Artists are given a fixed rate and all proceeds go into a Studio Works pool that support future Studio Works programs.
Special thanks to our production manager Christina Gesualdi. Special thanks to our programming organizer Shannon Brooks.
Accessibility:
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We ask audience members to wear a mask! Performers may or may not be wearing masks while performing.
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The Art Room Studio is located in a building with a 4-step stoop and is on the 2nd floor of the building. There is no elevator.
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There is a single stall gender neutral bathroom in the basement of the building.
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If you are taking public transportation, the studio is close to the 57 bus route, and about a 20 minute walk from the BSL Snyder stop.
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top to bottom: kaijo caggins and Xander Cobbs
kaijo pictured at the Centre national de la danse in France
in process rehearsal 2025
glitched baby picture of kaijo
kaijo pictured at the Centre national de la danse in France
kaijo caggins
they/he
tiny recollections of alternate lives -- remember when living was about losing your virginity and not your mind????? i'm improvising
Artist Bio:
kaijo caggins is a Black trans performance artist, educator and doula. they observe improvisation and defiance through pleasure in their performance practices. kaijo works within the body, sounding and disorientation; with an emphasis on queerness, somatics and liberation as life force. they facilitate a queer Contact Improvisation jam + teach CI based classes. Living within land home to the Lenni-Lenape People of Lenapehoking, he is currently in community with local Contact Improvisation dancers, multidisciplinary artists, families and the rivers. kaijo will be pursuing their MA in Women’s, Gender + Sexuality Studies at George Washington University.
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Profile photograph of two white dancers with brown hair and brown and beige tank tops/t-shirts reach their arms directly out in front of them, their hands meeting and their eyes looking at the place where they meet. Photo by Colter Carlstedt
Profile photograph of two white dancers with brown hair and brown and beige tank tops/t-shirts reach their arms directly out in front of them, their hands meeting and their eyes looking at the place where they meet. Photo by Colter Carlstedt
Xander Cobbs
I’m working with a statement Julianna May made in Choerographic Idiom: “The process is not the piece.” I’m working with a process from Jeanine Durning: non-stopping. Here are my principles: start before I’m ready (Jeanine Durning) first, clean the studio move at the velocity of my thinking pass through myself work in set chunks of time alternating between non-stop moving and not-stop speaking rest in between The process is not the piece. I’m asking my subconscious to show me what convictions, questions, movements, directions, wants to come through. I’m scared because I don’t know what I’m making. Some concepts coming through: desiring queer platonic partnership with friends I’m too scared to ask because logistically it seems impossible; discontent with my movement; whiteness; interruption.
Artist Bio:
Xander is a choreographer, performer, teacher and organizer. Their pathway to performance entwines competitive ski racing, studies of earth science, a passion for community organizing and a fascination with alchemizing grief. They’ve collaborated and performed with Millie Heckler, Laurel Jenkins and Julian Barnett. Their work has been shown at Burlington City Arts, The Off Center for the Dramatic arts and The Flynn. Their current obsessions include House Dance, asexual aromantic love stories, and applying improvisational dance practices to political organizing strategy. They dream of creating a performance art collective of culture workers, dancers, musicians, poets, sculptors, film makers and designers who collaborate on experimental and accessible works in public spaces.
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