Mascher Space Co-op

Emily Sweeney is a movement artist living in Philadelphia, where she co-directs Perpetual Movement and Sound, an interdisciplinary performance collective in residence at the Mascher Space Cooperative. She is co-producer of paraphrase/NEXUS, a series in which artists create performances that respond and relate to current exhibitions at NEXUS/foundation for today’s art. Emily has presented her own improvised and choreographed works around Philadelphia as part of paraphrase/NEXUS, the bowerbird performance series, the Soundfield Festival, the CEC’s New Edge Mix series, and the Philly Fringe Festival. Currently, Emily dances with the Emergent Improvisation Ensemble and for independent choreographer Brigitta Herrmann. She is a native of Vermont, where she has taught dance technique and improvisation at the Southeastern Vermont Career Education Center, Marlboro College, and the Brattleboro School of Dance, where she was also twice commissioned to create works for pre-professional and community dancers. Emily studied dance, literature, and anthropology at Smith and Bennington Colleges under the auspices of Dana Reitz, Susan Sgorbati, Nia Love, Eva Karzcag, Edward Hoagland, and Terry Creach. In her own work she explores systems found in nature, as well as how humans’ sensory experience and memory shape our perceptions. She often works in collaboration with musicians, and her choreographed work is constantly inspired and nurtured by improvisation. Perhaps because she grew up in rural Vermont and feels most at home in a natural surround, Emily is driven to investigate how humans adjust their physical and sensory interactions to cope with new technology and the pace of the urban environment.

For more information, visit www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org