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 and 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.
Full body photo of Cory Seals leaning forward on his hands and knees. Pink and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. Projected text in the background reads random musings and desires. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black leather harness and purple/blue duochrome pants. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
A white dancer with brown hair and wearing a maroon dress, bends forward. They are screaming into the camera, eyes closed and mouth wide. Two musicians are visible behind them and several audience members are visible in the edges of the frame. photo credit: Rachael Warriner
Full body photo of Cory in motion, leaning backward, arms outstretched. Blue and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black sheer top with a black leather harness underneath, and purple/blue duochrome pants. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
Full body photo of Cory Seals leaning forward on his hands and knees. Pink and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. Projected text in the background reads random musings and desires. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black leather harness and purple/blue duochrome pants. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
Accessibility:
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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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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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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.
A white dancer with brown hair and wearing a maroon dress, bends forward. They are screaming into the camera, eyes closed and mouth wide. Two musicians are visible behind them and several audience members are visible in the edges of the frame. photo credit: Rachael Warriner
Black and white photo of a dancer in a checked shirt reaching the right with a long extended arm. A bare tree branch passes in front of the dancer, partially obscuring their body. photo credit: Michael Benko
A white dancer with brown hair and wearing a maroon dress, bends forward. They are screaming into the camera, eyes closed and mouth wide. Two musicians are visible behind them and several audience members are visible in the edges of the frame. photo credit: Rachael Warriner
Ella-Gabriel Mason
Ella-Gabriel Mason will be sharing some new investigations into square dance with Xander Cobb, Emma Sue Ewing, Kate Seethaler, and Katherine Kiefer Stark. We've been playing with pattern making and breaking, ways of abstracting square dance, and how we hold one another. It's been a really playful and quick experiment and we're looking forward to hearing how it lands with an audience.
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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Motion blurred close up of Cory Seals behind a microphone. Blue and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black sheer top and a black leather harness. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
Full body photo of Cory Seals leaning forward on his hands and knees. Pink and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. Projected text in the background reads random musings and desires. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black leather harness and purple/blue duochrome pants. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
Full body photo of Cory in motion, leaning backward, arms outstretched. Blue and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black sheer top with a black leather harness underneath, and purple/blue duochrome pants. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
Motion blurred close up of Cory Seals behind a microphone. Blue and purple light bounce around his iridescent make up and in the background. He has 6 cornrows with beads and shells on the ends and an undercut with a full beard. He is wearing a black sheer top and a black leather harness. Photo and Makeup Artist: Zay Ali
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?
Content Warning: Explicit Language.
Artist Bio:
Cory Seals is an interdisciplinary artist and community curator born in Atlanta, GA and based in Philadelphia, PA. Seals’ motivation is to use movement and sound to create a landscape of improvisational practices, promiscuous futuring, and emergent strategy towards collective action, radical care, and illuminating the diversely interconnected experiences of black and queer people. His interdisciplinary work seeks to identify restorative frameworks for self and community care through illuminating histories of black queer desire as embodied research and meditative/explorative/exhibitive performance. With projects ranging from experimental live performance to archive design— Seals devises fantastical and functional tools for black queer futurity.
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