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Photo by Tasha Doremus

NEXUS/foundation for today's art presents asNEXUS, performance installations by member artists J. Makary and Perpetual Movement and Sound that heighten the experience of the body through technology. Seeking form in minutiae, Perpetual Movement and Sound amplify the movements of dancers using live-feed audio and video, while J. Makary's video-based performance enters a fantasy where youth subculture never dies but instead matures.

Friday, September 5 through Monday, September 8
8:30 p.m.
$10

NEXUS/foundation for today's art
Crane Arts Building, 1400 N. American St. #102, Philadelphia

For tickets, please call the Festival Box Office at 215.413.1318 or visit www.livearts-fringe.org.

J. Makary creates movement and video works that unite social dance, contemporary movement study, and the language of film. This shared evening will be the premiere of Wanna Kiss Myself, a character-based dance film created in collaboration with Philadelphia dancers, and an interconnected live performance featuring New York-based dance artist Pedro Jimenez and Ms. Makary. Set at a casual party among friends, the new video work blurs the line between what's scripted and what's organic, as a naturalistic setting is revealed to be a backdrop for a peculiar revival of popular dance. Please visit www.jmakary.com to view the artist's past work.

Perpetual Movement and Sound will premiere assembling minutiae, an installation in which solo dancer Emily Sweeney inhabits a landscape designed by Bilwa, with video by Blaine Siegel and an electronic sound score by Michael McDermott. Surrounded by projections of duets with dancers Brigitta Herrmann, Rebecca Patek, and Jil Stifel, as well as video and audio recordings of her moving body taken live, Sweeney meticulously disassembles and reassembles movement phrases, exploring how our senses evoke a person's presence or mitigate their absence; how memories are not static entities, but are recreated each time we call them to mind. For biographical information about the artists, please click here.

Photo by Tasha Doremus

perfect seconds by perpetual mvmt<>snd

Recorded in the summer of 2007 as a companion piece to Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd's 2007 Philly Fringe Performance, "gasp," this album runs the range of lo-fi ambient, lush sound layers, percussive persuasion, minimal melodic motifs and digital experimentations. Perpetual Mvmt<>Snd musical directors, Mikronesia and Bilwa, took a year’s worth of inspiration from their dance counterparts (led by Emily Sweeney) and culled some live recordings and improvisation sessions to create new tracks in the studio inspired by the dance and movement of the group. Visit http://www.earsnake.com/ to purchase a copy.

vxvii by mikronesia

vxvii was released in January on kikapu. Sadly this will be the last release ever on the formidable net label. You can download vxvii here.