NAKED STARK, A Partner in Movement at Fairmount Water Works

The Naked Stark is a Partner in Movement at Fairmount Water Works. Come celebrate the first performance of their residency on May 3rd at 12 pm with a repeat performance at 12:30 pm!

Join us to stand far below the surface in an excerpt of a new immersive dance piece, Bodies of Water. The Naked Stark’s Artistic Collaborators activate the imagination as they evoke a changing flood line in a historic site designed to overflow.

Free performances of this excerpt will be shown in tandem with free gallery tours of the Fairmount Water Works’ new art exhibit “CONFLUENCE.”

May 3, 12 PM & 12:30 PM

July 12, 12 PM & 12:30 PM

July 26, 12 PM & 12:30 PM

Come for a Curator Tour of the new Art Exhibit, Confluence at 11am and stay for a Naked Stark performance at 12pm!
Come for a Naked Stark performance at 12:30pm and stay for a Curator Tour of Confluence at 1pm!

Artistic Collaborators:

Amalia Colón-Nava, Chloe Marie, Harlee Trautman, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Marcie Mamura, and Meredith Stapleton

About The Naked Stark:

The Naked Stark is a West Philly-based dance company that crafts up-close, immersive dances for intergenerational audiences. The company’s collaborative structure engages multidisciplinary artists passionate about inspiring imaginations toward possibilities of change, intergenerational connections, and a process of deep research.

Jonathan Stein of thINKingDANCE writes The Naked Stark “challenges us to see the dynamics of power shaped by historic narrative, social conventions, and our own unselfconscious playfulness.”

The Naked Stark’s has created site-responsive dance works across Philadelphia, including: Falling Up (2023), Icebox Project Space; the time in between (2021), a film and installation at the Arts League;  Actor & The Leading Lady (2019), Clark Park; Taking Up Space (2015), The Porch at 30th St. Station; and Goodnight War (2012), Broad Street Love. We are appreciative of support from organizations including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, University City District, Fringe Arts, and ongoing support from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund.  

Website: https://www.thenakedstark.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thenakedstark