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

For tickets, visit www.phillyfringe.org or call (215) 413-1318.

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 more information and biographical information about the artists, please visit www.perpetualmvmtsnd.org.