Artists in Residence
Carmichael Jones
Carmichael Jones is an artist whose work is often playful and slightly irreverent, blending the everyday and the never-seen-before, the meticulous and the reckless, the handcrafted and the ready made.
Carmichael is a proud graduate of Tyler School of Art and SalemCC as well as the creative co-director of “The Whole Shebang”.
Currently a BFA artist in residence at Tyler School of Art and a 2015 CGCA fellow, Carmichael has shown work at Vox Populi, The Hatchatory, Little Berlin and Flux Space among others.
carmichaeljones.com
Meg Foley/movingparts
For 20 years, I have made performance projects with the self as subject—body-based explorations of identity, belonging, and time from a queer perspective. In a loving tumble with formalism in dance and what constitutes performance, and influenced by identifying as a queer mom in a trans family, I work on a research continuum that centers the 24-hour body and asks how identity is occupied: an all-the-time, ever-shifting self, a sacred site, a portal, a prism, bloody, sweaty, sexual, mundane. It is an active mapping of oneself from the inside. An avid and emotional improviser, my art-making practice is interwoven with relational aesthetics, play, parenting, and group-building.
I build elaborate text and movement scores that mess with time and memory. I danced wherever I was every day at 3:15pm for four years, including during labor. I developed “action is primary,” an improvisational performance practice that trains a hyper-articulate interiority in direct dialogue with shape/form/feeling/being as choreography (2010–2017). In 2016, I began using fabric, foam, and carpet to extend embodied space through interactive objects and installations, trying to present ontological experience through other media, affording somatic life to objects and exploring my body as an object in dialogue.
Click here to learn more: www.movingpartsdance.org
Learn more about my work with Grand re Union and the recent Tender Hotel event here.
Jordan Deal
Jordan Deal’s interdisciplinary practice merges sculpture, performance, painting and drawing, sound, and text play to create performance installations. Through the use of both worn and free-standing sculptures in his performances he interacts with the space questioning the interplay between the powers of race, gender, sex, and economic class. The work challenges the assumed roles of the body and aims to create dialogue around acknowledging and deconstructing micro-aggressions, while using play to explore relationship building between individuals and communities. His current work examines the dynamic between body and mind, physical and spiritual death and rebirth, role-play, and intimacy using characters or deities he creates that transcend the normalities of sex and gender. Through this mode of storytelling, Deal confronts issues of conformity, submission and resistance, violence, and separatism.
@jordandealart
Shannon Murphy
Shannon Murphy is a dance artist who creates invitations for gathering to practice complexity, differentiation, and resilience. These practices model possible ways of being through experiencing sensate, fleshly, and imaginative explorations of one's own biology. Her research exhumes, arouses, and destabilizes through improvisational methods generating dance, co-narratives, myths, and tactile artifacts. With a deep care for collaboration she prefers to work in groups, sharing through teaching, making, and performing. Shannon likes to engage in long conversations as well as language-less haptic interactions where what is felt becomes a proposal for sharing what cannot always be seen.
Shannon received her MFA in Dance from the University of the Arts in the summer of 2019. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Whole Shebang teaching and developing her current performance research. Her work has been awarded an Arts for Social Change grant from the Leeway Foundation, a Live Arts LAB fellowship, a New Edge Residency in Dance and a New Edge Mix Artist at the Community Education Center, and was an Artist in Residence at Mascher Space Co-Op. She has been a co-director of idiosynCrazy productions alongside founder, Jumatatu Poe since 2009. Shannon has studied Franklin Method with Eric Franklin for over 10 years and now as one of the first US/English speaking faculty members, specializes in Franklin Method for dancers. As an adjunct Assistant Professor, she teaches at UArts where she is the Curricular Head of Body Pathways, and is developing programming to reduce injury and support the healing and recovery of injured dancers. She also teaches at Stockton University and as an adjunct professor taught at Bryn Mawr College and Drexel University where she was the Assistant Director of Drexel Dance Ensemble from 2015-2017. Shannon has worked with many dance artists/companies, including: Peggy Baker, Group Motion Dance Co, Jaamil Kosoko, Jumatatu Poe, The Naked Stark, Nichole Canuso Dance Company, SCRAP Performance Group, and Kate Watson-Wallace.
