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UP THE STAIRS
SHORT FILM

An absurd take on the experience of  women of color, Up the Stairs concerns a young woman caught in a pattern of toxic behavior as she is helped in her journey of self-discovery by an astute therapist.  Comedic in tone the piece features  experimental editing to convey the sense of an endless loop of excess in food and sex.

Written by: Mallika Kavadi (@mallikakavadi), Salomé Egas (@salomeegas)
Direction: Mallika Kavadi, Art Direction: Javiera Valle (@javiera_valle_toro)
Edition: Melanie Flanagan (@mirrormephotography)
Production: Salomé Egas, Sound: Javiera Valle, Aaron Lynn (@aaronlslynn), Music: Emily Wexler (@es.wex)
Actors: Salomé Egas, A Justice (@ajustice) Javiera Valle,  Emily Wexler, Aaron Lynn, Andy Reyes (@realdoctorandy)
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UPRISING AFTER GRIEF

Collaboration w/ ES.WEX
Part of "Criminalize This!" Exhibit
Amos Eno Gallery
July 26, 2019
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This piece explores the ways in which our Criminal Legal System and our society at large criminalizes our bodies, especially marginalized queer femme bodies. Through a combination of live looping, electronic musical story-telling, and movement the piece questions the concept of safety: who has the right to define it and experience it.  Who is inherently deemed as unsafe? Who is our system built for and who was it designed to benefit? Therefore, who was it designed to alienate and push out?
The piece takes the audience on a journey through the physical and psychological oppression of our current system, grieving the losses experienced at its hands, into a space of reimagining, breaking down what exists to create space for something new. This is still a work in progress!

This evening of performances is held to bring a performative dimension to 'CRIMINALIZE THIS!' an exhibition about The Social Policing of Gender and the Criminalization of Queerness, co-curated by Mary Gagler and Lorenzo Triburgo.

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STEREOFLIGHT

Developed by F.U.N Collective
Directed by Brennan O'Rourke,
Katusha Jin
Sitting Shotgun, SQUARE 1
May 14-19, 2019

STEREOFLIGHT, heavily influenced by magical realism, is a play that imagines what would happen when you board a plane towards your dream destination, fall sleep on your seat, but your unconscious works intensely to reveal that your dream destination is just an illusion, a place built on stereotypes, meritocracy and broken institutions. The play was written and developed collaboratively by the members of F.U.N. Collective, and was initially inspired by the different immigrant experiences from the founding members of our collective. The show quickly became a project aimed at highlighting the lack of mobility that the US immigration system presses on newcomers while we manage to navigate, struggle and celebrate our intersectional identities. This iteration of STEREOFLIGHT is proud to feature only femme-identified artists: womyn of color, immigrants and queer folks.

​F.U.N. Collective (Fierce Untamed Niñes) will present its first full-length play STEREOFLIGHT on May 14 as part of a casual residency at Sitting Shotgun theater company. The play, written in collaboration by Kim Morales, Donna Gary and Salomé Egas and co-directed by Katusha Jin and Brennan O'Rourke will have a six-day run (May 14th-18th @ 8pm, May 19th @ 6pm) at SQUARE 1, 885 Park Avenue in Brooklyn, NY. The show, an evolving work-in-progress, is being produced by Myka Cue and Salomé Egas.
The cast of STEREOFLIGHT includes Camila Kann (Martha), Mouli Ghosh (Aquilah), Lesley Young (Bashita) and Claudia Job Pula (Devoción), they will be accompanied with live music by the talented Emily Wexler (ES Wex). The co-directors will be joined by fight choreographer Stephanie Orta.
​Photography by Lauren Pratt.

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IN OUR OWN BODIES: (UP)ROOTED

Solo Performance
​Written & Performed: Salomé Egas
Directed by Brennan O'Rourke 
Tang Teaching Museum 
April 6, 2019

How do identity and ancestry inform our creative work? How can performance art be used as a medium for cultural revitalization, community empowerment and social justice advocacy? What are the untapped resources we hold within ourselves? Using the lens of dance, these are some of the questions this festival will invite us to explore.
In Our Own Bodies will include workshops and performances by Dancing Earth, Urban Bush Women and Skidmore Alumna Salomé Egas ’14. These guest artists will share their impactful performance work with the Skidmore Community, and will facilitate conversations and movement-based activities designed to bring forth the memory, knowledge and creative potential that is already present in our own bodies.
This is an Intergroup Relations (IGR) Independent study led by Cinthia Duran Larrea ’19 in collaboration with Julia Gillis ’19, Stuti Bagri ’21, Sarah Maacha ’19 and Dejon Bunn ’19, with support from the Tang Teaching Museum and The Office of Student Diversity Programs (OSDP).

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