Ripple/Quake and Body Maps: Performances and Workshops by Sarah Muehlbauer (ACG ‘18)

Sarah Muehlbauer (ACG '18) is the 2019 Leeway x Icebox Project Space Artist-in-Residence. As part of her residency she is offering performances and workshops.

Body Maps: is a workshop that creates meaningful connections between self and environment through an imaginative movement process. With the map as a metaphor for both inner and outer worlds, we practice how to draw from our experience to create the images we desire. Directly following Body Maps, guest instructor Elliot Polinsky will lead a meditative practice of Yoga Nidra, or “sleep yoga”. This sequenced visualization brings about deep relaxation and assists in uncovering and releasing habitual patterns of body and mind."

In the beginning, maps were nothing more than theories, plans to journey to bring back data, rough pictures that helped explorers travel further into the unknown. Now that we’ve traversed our planet outwardly, we set forth to journey in. We can spend our whole lives getting to know the maps of our bodies, their patterns, preferences, joys, obstacles, and hidden history. The way we frame this journey has everything to do with where we end up. So let's create maps of our bodies.... separately, but together.

Saturday, June 22 // 1:00 - 3:00PM followed by Yoga Nidra at 3:15PM

Wear comfortable clothes. No performance is experience necessary. We recommend that you bring a notebook. Inclusivity is emphasized, please contact with any needs.

RSVP for Body Maps here.

Ripple/Quake: is a multidisciplinary performance event exploring the impact of the individual on the whole, viewed through the lens of disability and an ethic of care. Symbols traverse image, object, body, and sound, revealing threads of wildness and domesticity, anchoring and flow. The work centers on a tensile fabric wave form, which represents the collective unconscious. Artists contribute content based on personal, cultural, and creative intersections. Following the performance will be a short Q&A, and guest instructor Elliot Polinsky will lead a session of Yoga for Chronic Pain. This peaceful yoga practice calls on rhythmic, meditative motion and stable breathing to help the nervous system to settle, the body to relax, and the mind to re-map the body. 

Friday, June 28 // 7:30PM Ripple/Quake

Saturday, June 29 // 3:00PM Ripple/Quake followed by Yoga for Chronic Pain at 4:30PM 

RSVP for Ripple/Quake here.

Leeway x Icebox Resident Artist Sarah Muehlbauer acts as concept artist, performer, maker, and community organizer navigating horizontal leadership to seed and blend disparate practices. Ripple/Quake is created in collaboration with artists Dan Cole (concept, video design, and sound creation), Anne Weshinskey (performance art), Simon de Aguero (tensile fabric design), Will Turnbull (sculpture fabrication), Rexedog (music), Mieke D. (strategic support), and Elliot Polinsky (photography, yoga instruction), as well as previous participants from the Body Maps workshop series held in early 2019, in residence at the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts. 

BYO Yoga Mat or Blanket. Limited supply will be available.

This event is free and open to the public.

This venue is wheelchair accessible. ASL interpretation available by request if you RSVP by June 18.