July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
July 24 2025 ⎯ 8 pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Featuring: Severin Blake, mik phillips, and Bee Johnson
July 24th, 2025
doors at 7:45
show at 8pm
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 and 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: Severin Blake, Bee Johnson, and mik phillips
Severin Blake outdoors at Bartram's Gardens, soft, assertive, mystical, flirtatious, iconic. Photo Credit: Ashley Smith @wideeyedstudios
Labyrinth Of The Other - We meet Severin aka the Minotaur at the cosmic threshold. Photo credit: Lloyd Mulvey Overlay: Severin Blake
Severin Blake outdoors at Bartram's Gardens, soft, assertive, mystical, flirtatious, iconic. Photo Credit: Ashley Smith @wideeyedstudios
Severin Blake
Artist Bio:
Severin Blake is an transdisciplinary artist, facilitator, and writer. The work they create interrogates language, imagery, and linear time. They facilitate intentional spaces of bravery, vulnerability, and joy making with the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) and Culture Change Lab (CCL). Their workbook Deprogramming Alienation can be found on their website. As a performer Severin has over 20 years of experience and has appeared on stage at InterAct, Orbiter 3, Simpatico, PolyGlamourous, Philadelphia Artists Collective, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, CCTC, Theatre Exile, StageWest, People’s Productions, Yael Bartana, and Alma’s Engine and in exhibition at the PMA. They’ve created original roles in collaboration with Headlong Dance Theater (incubated artist), Annie Wilson, Swim Pony, The Painted Bride, The Private Theater, Black Best Friend and Applied Mechanics (Company Member). Description of work: Labyrinth Of The Other (LOTO) is an immersive performance installation that upends the myth of the minotaur and travels through a labyrinth of diasporic experience. LOTO asks what is a monster? LOTO is a transformation, a call to go beyond the threshold of erasure, to rest, to learn and remember.
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a blurry photo of mik wearing white underwear and a white fitted tank top, laying on his side, facing away from the camera. Photo credit: Jorgie Ingram
a blurry photo of mik wearing white underwear and a white fitted tank top, laying on his side, facing away from the camera. Photo credit: Jorgie Ingram
mik phillips
Artist Bio:
mik is a white, trans, queer + fat dance and performance artist currently based in Philadelphia, who received their BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in 2021. he examines + lives inside a constant welling; a need for quivers, heaving, uncontrollable laughter, sobs, and indiscriminate violence guides them into creating temporary worlds that are maniacally unkempt and grotesquely forgiving. he aims to distort time, go elsewhere; while exploring humor, absurdity, death/dying, queer futurity, and intense physicality through different modes of efficiency and enactments. Description of work: roadkill, rigor mortis, resurrection — a practice of dying — a dirty, light, and thick experience with death.
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Bee posed on stage wearing a patchwork dress. Photo credit: Beloit College
Bee walking on stage bathed in blue light wearing jeans and a black and blue sports bra. Photo credit: Beloit College
Bee posed on stage wearing a patchwork dress. Photo credit: Beloit College
Bee Johnson
Artist Bio:
Bee Johnson (they/she) is queer, non-binary dance creative based in Philadelphia. They received their BA in Theatre, Dance and Media Studies with a concentration in Dance Performance and Choreography from Beloit College. One of their most performed works, “Brown Sugar Cinnamon,” investigates the audience’s relationship to a sensual Black body in motion as juxtaposed against different musical landscapes. Their passion is for movement that sustains the body not just for a good time, but for a long time. They are a community organizer with Philly Dance Share and seasonally teach a beginner-level hip-hop class with PDS. Description of work: Sitting with the internet archive of my body in motion, my little wiggles, this tumultuous time has teamed with joy and sorrow and the gray in-between. I want, I need to make it make sense in a sensual slinky sort of scene. I invite you to enjoy this little ditty, this long exploration of my body in space, this Brown Sugar Cinnamon digital adaptation of late.
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