Curator’s Note: This dynamic program was imagined having in mind the importance of assembly and collaboration across creative processes within the context of performance. In these shifting times, I want both the artist and the audience to witness each other, conjure together, showing up for each other; and perhaps in these gatherings as in conversation, ideas will appear even more legible, inspiring and fostering understanding about new ways in how we can perceive the world around us. 

Performance as in practice.
How can we inhabit space without invading it?

ERICK MONTES, Guest Curator

(He/his/el) 

I am a dancer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist who believes in the technology of movement as the threshold towards ancestral wisdom. 

My research gravitates between memory and representation in the intersection with dance aesthetics. I am passionate about liberation and very much about messing with the status quo whenever I can. My dances, practice, and training are highly influenced by American choreographer Bill T.Jones and the late Luis Fandiño (Mexico City, 1931-2022), among the array of dear friends and mentors across my transnational cultural community between the US and Mexico who have been supporting my dancing to date. 

Currently, I am interested in authenticity versus the manufacture of dance making and the body as a confluence of biology, biology as in culture. 

When I am not producing dances, I am guiding vinyasa practice or co-teaching a class as an Adjunct Professor at UArts in Philadelphia where I am also a fellow MFA candidate for the School of Dance. 

“What is not here, is somewhere else” - Thomas D.Frantz

We respectfully acknowledge that the work of Triskelion Arts is situated on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape peoples. We pay our respects to their land, water, and ancestors, past, present, and future. This acknowledgment demonstrates a commitment to the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and to learning to be better stewards of this land.