July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
July 29 8pm
The Art Room Studio
STUDIO WORKS
May 29th 2026 ⎯ 7pm ⎯ The Art Room Studio
Juan Castrillón, Zeze Schorsch, and Robert Burden
May 29th
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 tor breen and our programming organizer Shannon Brooks.
dancer playing a flute around a bell. photo by Juan Castrillon
Tape has so many functions. photo credit: Zeze Schorsch by Zeze Schorsch
Bells on a street photo credit: Şirin Gazi
dancer playing a flute around a bell. photo by Juan Castrillon
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.
dancer playing a flute around a bell photo credit: Juan Castrillon
Bells on a street photo credit: Şirin Gazi
dancer playing a flute around a bell photo credit: Juan Castrillon
Juan Castrillón (He/They)
Impossible Crossings features an improvisation around a sound sculpture of glass bells. The piece wonders about longing and the inevitable transformation of past and present. The sculpture was developed in North Cyprus and renders the poetic imagery of cage-free sheep and goats transgressing the militarized divide of current Cyprus.
Artist Bio:
Juan Castrillón is a performing artist, multimodal cultural anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist with regional expertise in Türkiye and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His art practice fosters world-shifting, and the production of micro-atmospheric instantiations of light and affect. His work dialogues with contemporary debates about decoloniality, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the body, space, magic and technology.
Juan will be join by collaborator Matt Engle.
Matt Engle grew up in the Philadelphia area and has been an active member of the creative and improvised music scene for 20 years. His work extends to the world of electronic music, featured on his recording with poet Michael Szekely under the name The Alternate View. His work defies categorization seemlessly moving among different styles and disciplines. His love of the acoustic bass matches the intimacy of the pairing of his mind and body to this particular instrument. His deep interest in birds, waves, unique people, esoteric sounds, the moon and all celestial objects helps to increase the emotional, spiritual and creative content of his work in music.
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Zeze Schorsch by Zeze Schorsch Tape has so many functions.
Zeze Schorsch by Zeze Schorsch Tape has so many functions.
Zeze Schorsch (she/they)
Half Hall & Oates tribute, half desperate cry for help, Zeze Schorsch is bound, gagging, and giving you what you want.
Zeze will be joined by collaborator Vyette Tiya (she/her)
Content Warning: Nudity
Artist Bio:
Zeze (she/they) is hungry, horny, hairy, haunted and uses any artistic medium to deal with that. Since choreographing their first concert WISDOM TEETH (2018), they've performed on stages throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and now Philadelphia. There she has presented work in Cedar Becher & Annie Peterson’s YIELD series, choreographed for the Flamboyance Award-winning Little Orphan Annie But All Adults by Gene Farbe, and performed in Adam Kerbel’s We Pull The Trigger. Last October, Schorsch collaborated with Becher on a 24-hour performance To Time presented @hallpass.
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Robert Burden (he/him)
Rhythm in the clouds is an unfinished solo project created from Rob’s research practice “Gruv-Funq-Phlo”. “G.F.P” is a movement study investigating the conversation between dancers & musicians. In short Phlo is the response to the Gruv&Funq. In response to Gruv-Funq, Phloworq (flow work) is the natural bodies reactivity in real time making Gruv-Funq-Phlo a practice in personal transport. It is my understanding that Groove, Funk, & Flow as we know & define these words are separate fragments of Ritual play.
Artist Bio:
Robert Burden of Phloworqx: Robert Burden is a Philadelphia Native whose training started at Gwendolyn Bye Dance Center in various forms such as ballet, jazz, tap, codified modern techniques, and multiple hip hop styles. Burden is inspired by world building as a manifestation of the very experiences of being black and holding multiple identifications as well as the otherworldly and imaginative spaces of Anime and illustrative media. As a dancer, he is also inspired by developing a pedagogical approach to movement and holds teaching and choreographic skills of various levels.
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