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Inside the Room with Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel
November 2, 2023 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Free
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“The Space is a Body and You Are In It” is a collaborative world-building (and world-falling apart) game designed by Anna Kroll and Chloë Engel featured in their installation in the SPARK 6: Refractions exhibition. Developed during the early days of the pandemic when dancing together only became possible through speech, the game engages bodily awareness, the
(im)possibility of a shared imagination, and coping with inevitable disaster. In this intimate performance, audience members are invited to watch Anna and Chloë play the game–building an imaginary space and watching it fall apart.
Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel are interdisciplinary artists, improvisers, listeners, and long-term collaborators. We swear we make dances, but they’re also phone calls, choose-your-own-adventure vignettes, living installations, games, and/or oracles for predicting our ecological destiny. Our work has been presented in Tendon magazine and a part of re:semblance at New Media Artspace (NYC/ online), in Spark IV: A New World? (Baltimore/online) and Mind on Fire (Baltimore). Our current project is an immersive tabletop game called “The Space is a Body and You Are In It.” We have facilitated collaborative imagining workshops independently and through The Deep Play Institute and School of Making Thinking.
Anna’s work has been shown at No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), in Philadelphia theaters, rivers, and subway underpasses, at FringeArts’ Scratch Night, Open Call Guerilla Outdoor Performance Festival, Invisible River’s Schuylkill River Arts Day, Cathy Weis’ Sundays on Broadway (NYC), and Danspace’s Draftwork series (NYC). She received an MFA in
Intermedia and Digital Art from UMBC in 2023.
Chloë works with children and makes performances about being a child. Chloë’s performance work has been shown at Lifeworld (Brooklyn, NY), AUNTS (Brooklyn, NY), Open Performance at Movement Research, No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA), Middlebury College, and Bennington College.
SPARK programming is made possible by a partnership with PNC Bank.
Accessibility
Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available upon request for this event. ASL requests must be made three full business days prior to an event.
Wheelchair and Physical Building Access / The Peale has a brand new elevator! The new accessible entrance is on the left side of the building, down Watchouse alley about 100 ft. There is a keypad on the right side of the elevator door. Press the button to call the elevator. There is a door that will swing open automatically once the elevator is called so stand back. Once the door is open you can enter the elevator portico and then step/roll/dance into the elevator. When you come out of the elevator you will be in a short hallway by the bathrooms and the lobby and welcome desk is on the right. There are three floors in the Peale there is a handrail on all flights of stairs. Various and ample forms of seating is available in every room. The historic entrance has five steps and no functioning handrail.
Parking / There is a temporary drop off spot in the “no parking” zone directly in front of the Holliday St. entrance. There are multiple public paid parking lots within a two block radius of The Peale as well as street parking. There are 4 access parking spots on the 200 block of Holliday Street.
Visual Descriptions and more / For additional information about captioning, ASL, services, and more, please visit our Accessibility page.
Visual Descriptions and more / For additional information about captioning, ASL, services, and more, please visit our Accessibility page.