Three evenings, live at Gallery 198
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A performance with Renata Sheppard & Eldar Baruch.
Join us for an intimate evening performance with New York–based choreographer Renata Sheppard and musician/composer Eldar Baruch, along with dancers Brianna Lopez & Noam Carmeli, sharing a new work-in-progress that merges live movement, drawing, and sound.
Sheppard’s kinetic drawings expand the idea of dance beyond the body into visual form. During performance, choreography becomes a tool for mark-making: the dancer moves across paper with charcoal, generating large-scale drawings in real time. These drawings function as both visual artifacts and choreographic scores-traces of movement that remain after the performance ends.
Afterward, select sections of these delicate works are preserved through a bespoke resin process, transforming them into lasting visual art.
The choreography itself draws from conceptual systems-procedural algorithms, if/then sequencing, decision theory, and mathematical structures such as Fibonacci sequences and particle acceleration-creating patterns that translate physical movement into visual composition.
Through this practice, dance transcends its ephemeral nature. Sheppard’s work connects choreography with mathematics, physics, digital technologies, and interactive systems, inviting audiences to witness how movement can generate form, structure, and image. Photographer: Alex Kroke @kroke
