July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
December 21st 2025 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Featuring: Ella-Gabriel Mason, annie peterson, Cory Seal
DECEMBER 21st
doors at 6:30pm
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 and our programming organizer Shannon Brooks.
Accessibility:
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We ask audience members to wear a mask and to not come to show if they are sick. Performers may or may not be wearing masks while performing. LIMITED N95 masks will be provided at the door.
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All performances will take place in The Art Room Studio. 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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There is no onsite parking! Please give yourself extra time to find street parking. The studio is close to the 57 bus route, and about a 20 minute walk from the BSL Snyder stop.
Ella-Gabriel Mason
Artist Bio:
Ella-Gabriel Mason (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist obsessed with embodiment, community, and reinvention. Trained as a dancer and choreographer, they also work with video, text, and installation. Mason works in spiral time, revisiting themes of gender, animality, Jewish Diasporism, sexuality, trauma, and collectivity from new contexts and with new collaborators. Their performance work has been presented in Pittsburgh, Tucson, NYC, and Philadelphia. Mason has received grants from the Heinz Endowments, PA Council on the Arts, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and the Leeway Foundation. In addition to their work as a creator and performer, Mason is a licensed massage therapist specializing in myofascial and trauma-sensitive bodywork.
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Cory Seal
Pro+Pro+ception is a rumination on the black queer experience. In a culture that simultaneously hyper visualizes, commodifies, and disappears black queer bodies, proprioception —felt awareness of the body’s position and motion— is a tactic of self-fashioning that both anticipates and evades the white supremacist gaze. I’m interested in the many ways we lean into our isms as love letters and forms of refusal. If W.E.B. DuBois, who gon be the gworls?
Artist Bio:
Kayliani Sood is a white, femme dance artist from Saint Peters, Missouri, currently based in Philadelphia. Their multidisciplinary work spans movement, songwriting and visual arts to articulate rich, personal narratives of neurodivergence and femmehood. Sood is a passionate teacher— whose practice ranges from the realm of early childhood to adult dance education. They hold a BFA in Dance from the University of the Arts, and have performed with Chloe Marie, Curt Haworth, Vincent Johnson, among others. Sood’s recent choreographic works have featured in the 20/92 film festival, Cannonball Festival, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Philadelphia Dance Projects’ DANCE UP CLOSE series.
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annie peterson
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Artist Bio:
Cierra Woods is a Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, and DJ born on the unceded land of the Susquehannock people, now Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She has refined her craft at Temple University, earning a BFA in Dance. Her artistry has been showcased on prominent stages, including the Kennedy Center, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Judson Memorial Church, and the Brooklyn Museum. Recently, Cierra served as a 2024-25 Mascher Space BIPOC Artist in Residence. Her mission is to inhabit sustainable systems that foster environments for diasporic communities to thrive.
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