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Excerpts from an article I wrote digesting an experience I had performing @baba_yaga_gallery.Give it a look over. Let me know what you think. link in bio.

Thanks so much @culturebot for providing the space to work through some afropessimist theory on performance. Eve Bromberg you are a godsend.

Extra special thank you to my partner in crime Sidney Pettice @sidneyjp_ for always answering the phone.

Excerpts from an article I wrote digesting an experience I had performing @baba_yaga_gallery.Give it a look over. Let me know what you think. link in bio.

Thanks so much @culturebot for providing the space to work through some afropessimist theory on performance. Eve Bromberg you are a godsend.

Extra special thank you to my partner in crime Sidney Pettice @sidneyjp_ for always answering the phone.

Excerpts from an article I wrote digesting an experience I had performing @baba_yaga_gallery.Give it a look over. Let me know what you think. link in bio.

Thanks so much @culturebot for providing the space to work through some afropessimist theory on performance. Eve Bromberg you are a godsend.

Extra special thank you to my partner in crime Sidney Pettice @sidneyjp_ for always answering the phone.

Dance Poem Revolution is an on going participatory work by Melanie Hoff (@melanieh0ff), in which the artist uses open source code to remix the popular arcade game, Dance Dance Revolution. Melanie invites collaborators to contribute to a corpus of texts and images, which acts as source data for players to produce their own poems through their movements.

For their CultureHub Residency, Melanie invited Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) to perform with their Dance Poem Revolution system. Ime shared a vulnerable personal experience — a recorded phone call with a customer service employee at their bank. They reenacted the emotion of the scene with their movements, landing on random words from the phone call as they appeared on screen.

Read Michelle Santiago Cortés reflections on Melanie Hoff’s unique spin on Dance Dance Revolution at culturehub.org/read/choice-chance-and-revolution

Photos by Olena Shkoda

Dance Poem Revolution is an on going participatory work by Melanie Hoff (@melanieh0ff), in which the artist uses open source code to remix the popular arcade game, Dance Dance Revolution. Melanie invites collaborators to contribute to a corpus of texts and images, which acts as source data for players to produce their own poems through their movements.

For their CultureHub Residency, Melanie invited Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) to perform with their Dance Poem Revolution system. Ime shared a vulnerable personal experience — a recorded phone call with a customer service employee at their bank. They reenacted the emotion of the scene with their movements, landing on random words from the phone call as they appeared on screen.

Read Michelle Santiago Cortés reflections on Melanie Hoff’s unique spin on Dance Dance Revolution at culturehub.org/read/choice-chance-and-revolution

Photos by Olena Shkoda

Dance Poem Revolution is an on going participatory work by Melanie Hoff (@melanieh0ff), in which the artist uses open source code to remix the popular arcade game, Dance Dance Revolution. Melanie invites collaborators to contribute to a corpus of texts and images, which acts as source data for players to produce their own poems through their movements.

For their CultureHub Residency, Melanie invited Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) to perform with their Dance Poem Revolution system. Ime shared a vulnerable personal experience — a recorded phone call with a customer service employee at their bank. They reenacted the emotion of the scene with their movements, landing on random words from the phone call as they appeared on screen.

Read Michelle Santiago Cortés reflections on Melanie Hoff’s unique spin on Dance Dance Revolution at culturehub.org/read/choice-chance-and-revolution

Photos by Olena Shkoda

Dance Poem Revolution is an on going participatory work by Melanie Hoff (@melanieh0ff), in which the artist uses open source code to remix the popular arcade game, Dance Dance Revolution. Melanie invites collaborators to contribute to a corpus of texts and images, which acts as source data for players to produce their own poems through their movements.

For their CultureHub Residency, Melanie invited Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) to perform with their Dance Poem Revolution system. Ime shared a vulnerable personal experience — a recorded phone call with a customer service employee at their bank. They reenacted the emotion of the scene with their movements, landing on random words from the phone call as they appeared on screen.

Read Michelle Santiago Cortés reflections on Melanie Hoff’s unique spin on Dance Dance Revolution at culturehub.org/read/choice-chance-and-revolution

Photos by Olena Shkoda

Sunday June 7th at 12pm @abronsartscenter I’ll be showing
“Scripts We Learn and Lines We Misremember”
as a part of @newdancealliance dancealliance
Performance Mix Festival #40!

I am honored to be sharing a bill with
@binbinfactory and @gau.danse @imani.angele

Check the link in the bio to grab tix! While ur there check out the other programing featuring over 35 experimental movement makers!

📸: Monica Mirabile
🎤: Excerpt from Fred Moten’s Theory and Practice of Contradiction Lecture (2025)

Video excerpts and install shots of my work “A.I. Fruit Love Island. (not a.i.)” for the group exhibition “In Time” @basilicahudson. I renamed this work to “Fruit Love Island”— because it’s not ai and what the title references can still be captured without that buzzword.

“Fruit Love Island” is a collection of sculptures with moving images and sound. I’m thinking about how images determine us as much as we determine them. I am experimenting with splitting sound from videos to allow the formal qualities of either medium to stand on its own. In this, Screen 1 is presenting images and Sound Box is presenting corresponding sound across the room. It is bisected by Screen 2– a still image.

I have (thankfully) many exciting happenings coming up for me over the next couple months but it’s been hard for me to keep everyone up to date! Friends, consider subscribing to my newsletter to stay in the loop about my practice. It’s a monthly issue with exclusive pictures and videos from performances. You will be the first to know what’s tea with me!
link in b10!

Video excerpts and install shots of my work “A.I. Fruit Love Island. (not a.i.)” for the group exhibition “In Time” @basilicahudson. I renamed this work to “Fruit Love Island”— because it’s not ai and what the title references can still be captured without that buzzword.

“Fruit Love Island” is a collection of sculptures with moving images and sound. I’m thinking about how images determine us as much as we determine them. I am experimenting with splitting sound from videos to allow the formal qualities of either medium to stand on its own. In this, Screen 1 is presenting images and Sound Box is presenting corresponding sound across the room. It is bisected by Screen 2– a still image.

I have (thankfully) many exciting happenings coming up for me over the next couple months but it’s been hard for me to keep everyone up to date! Friends, consider subscribing to my newsletter to stay in the loop about my practice. It’s a monthly issue with exclusive pictures and videos from performances. You will be the first to know what’s tea with me!
link in b10!

Video excerpts and install shots of my work “A.I. Fruit Love Island. (not a.i.)” for the group exhibition “In Time” @basilicahudson. I renamed this work to “Fruit Love Island”— because it’s not ai and what the title references can still be captured without that buzzword.

“Fruit Love Island” is a collection of sculptures with moving images and sound. I’m thinking about how images determine us as much as we determine them. I am experimenting with splitting sound from videos to allow the formal qualities of either medium to stand on its own. In this, Screen 1 is presenting images and Sound Box is presenting corresponding sound across the room. It is bisected by Screen 2– a still image.

I have (thankfully) many exciting happenings coming up for me over the next couple months but it’s been hard for me to keep everyone up to date! Friends, consider subscribing to my newsletter to stay in the loop about my practice. It’s a monthly issue with exclusive pictures and videos from performances. You will be the first to know what’s tea with me!
link in b10!

Video excerpts and install shots of my work “A.I. Fruit Love Island. (not a.i.)” for the group exhibition “In Time” @basilicahudson. I renamed this work to “Fruit Love Island”— because it’s not ai and what the title references can still be captured without that buzzword.

“Fruit Love Island” is a collection of sculptures with moving images and sound. I’m thinking about how images determine us as much as we determine them. I am experimenting with splitting sound from videos to allow the formal qualities of either medium to stand on its own. In this, Screen 1 is presenting images and Sound Box is presenting corresponding sound across the room. It is bisected by Screen 2– a still image.

I have (thankfully) many exciting happenings coming up for me over the next couple months but it’s been hard for me to keep everyone up to date! Friends, consider subscribing to my newsletter to stay in the loop about my practice. It’s a monthly issue with exclusive pictures and videos from performances. You will be the first to know what’s tea with me!
link in b10!

Video excerpts and install shots of my work “A.I. Fruit Love Island. (not a.i.)” for the group exhibition “In Time” @basilicahudson. I renamed this work to “Fruit Love Island”— because it’s not ai and what the title references can still be captured without that buzzword.

“Fruit Love Island” is a collection of sculptures with moving images and sound. I’m thinking about how images determine us as much as we determine them. I am experimenting with splitting sound from videos to allow the formal qualities of either medium to stand on its own. In this, Screen 1 is presenting images and Sound Box is presenting corresponding sound across the room. It is bisected by Screen 2– a still image.

I have (thankfully) many exciting happenings coming up for me over the next couple months but it’s been hard for me to keep everyone up to date! Friends, consider subscribing to my newsletter to stay in the loop about my practice. It’s a monthly issue with exclusive pictures and videos from performances. You will be the first to know what’s tea with me!
link in b10!

Video excerpts and install shots of my work “A.I. Fruit Love Island. (not a.i.)” for the group exhibition “In Time” @basilicahudson. I renamed this work to “Fruit Love Island”— because it’s not ai and what the title references can still be captured without that buzzword.

“Fruit Love Island” is a collection of sculptures with moving images and sound. I’m thinking about how images determine us as much as we determine them. I am experimenting with splitting sound from videos to allow the formal qualities of either medium to stand on its own. In this, Screen 1 is presenting images and Sound Box is presenting corresponding sound across the room. It is bisected by Screen 2– a still image.

I have (thankfully) many exciting happenings coming up for me over the next couple months but it’s been hard for me to keep everyone up to date! Friends, consider subscribing to my newsletter to stay in the loop about my practice. It’s a monthly issue with exclusive pictures and videos from performances. You will be the first to know what’s tea with me!
link in b10!

get your tickets NOW!

because my amazing collaborators and i are about to go off @triskelionarts !!!!

@nailahmurraymoves @hi.ny__ @sazonpackets @kneaku
this piece would not be without yall frfr! rehearsal feels like my calm within a storm because of yall! the level of commitment and trust is an honor to be apart of.

@bikebitch made this incredible flyer!!!! thank you!

ticket link in my bio<3

🌀Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) leads this Sunday’s Open Movement workshop with:
SLOP POP: OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CROSS CULTURAL MEMORY BANKING AND THERAPEUTIC COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. 🌀

This practice seeks to identify a method of regulation in the discordant, peculiar, or out of time. SLOP POP borrows from the tradition of karaoke to create original scores from songs already sung, hollowed out archetypes and easily identifiable rhythms. We will draw on our collective memory bank of found text– lyrics or otherwise– and impulse movement to create individual and group scores. Come ready to scream and shout and let it all out.
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📆Sunday, April 5th | 4PM
📌FREE RSVP at the link in our bio!
🖤Curated & organized by Monica Mirabile (@fluct_monica)

🌀Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) leads this Sunday’s Open Movement workshop with:
SLOP POP: OTHERWISE KNOWN AS CROSS CULTURAL MEMORY BANKING AND THERAPEUTIC COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. 🌀

This practice seeks to identify a method of regulation in the discordant, peculiar, or out of time. SLOP POP borrows from the tradition of karaoke to create original scores from songs already sung, hollowed out archetypes and easily identifiable rhythms. We will draw on our collective memory bank of found text– lyrics or otherwise– and impulse movement to create individual and group scores. Come ready to scream and shout and let it all out.
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📆Sunday, April 5th | 4PM
📌FREE RSVP at the link in our bio!
🖤Curated & organized by Monica Mirabile (@fluct_monica)

GALLERY HOURS SAT/SUN 12-4 THROUGH APRIL

In Time highlights the creative practices of artists who work together under one roof for a prominent contemporary artist in the Hudson Valley. This exhibition marks the third year anniversary of Shift Work, with similar aims by the same team.

Proximity and duration connect these artists. Within the extended rhythm of shift work, questions about making are passed around and embroidered with new ideas. Someone mentions a material they’ve been experimenting with, another shares a problem they can’t solve, and someone else brings in pictures of a late-night breakthrough.

These artists’ own work develops alongside the schedule of studio labor: at night, on weekends, and in-between shifts. This exhibition grows out of ongoing and open-ended conversations, a shared pleasure in making, and the excitement of seeing what someone else has made.

This is where we are now, together, in time.

💫 INTRODUCING 💫 Our March Artist-in-Residence Ime Soul @sazonpackets

Ime Soul is a live arts practitioner working on ephemeral installations, moving images, and performance. Ime Soul presents biomythological work exploring Blackness, abjection, sexuality, and the constraints of language as articulation. Their performances misuse formal qualities of Black church. Often a combination of extended duration and high intensity, Ime Soul uses fatigue as a vehicle to open up a sensorial and reflective space. Like church, witness and participation makes their work complete. Ime Soul received an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022), as well as a graduate degree from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024). Their work has been shown across New York State at spaces ranging from fine art institutions to public interruptions– Performance Space NY, Gallery 495 (‘26), CultureHub (‘26), Intercomm (‘24, ‘25) to name a few.

More to come from Ime’s residency 💥

Slide 1: 📸 @__carolyne__
Slide 2: 🎥 @fluct_monica
Slide 3: 📸 Olena Shkoda

💫 INTRODUCING 💫 Our March Artist-in-Residence Ime Soul @sazonpackets

Ime Soul is a live arts practitioner working on ephemeral installations, moving images, and performance. Ime Soul presents biomythological work exploring Blackness, abjection, sexuality, and the constraints of language as articulation. Their performances misuse formal qualities of Black church. Often a combination of extended duration and high intensity, Ime Soul uses fatigue as a vehicle to open up a sensorial and reflective space. Like church, witness and participation makes their work complete. Ime Soul received an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022), as well as a graduate degree from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024). Their work has been shown across New York State at spaces ranging from fine art institutions to public interruptions– Performance Space NY, Gallery 495 (‘26), CultureHub (‘26), Intercomm (‘24, ‘25) to name a few.

More to come from Ime’s residency 💥

Slide 1: 📸 @__carolyne__
Slide 2: 🎥 @fluct_monica
Slide 3: 📸 Olena Shkoda

💫 INTRODUCING 💫 Our March Artist-in-Residence Ime Soul @sazonpackets

Ime Soul is a live arts practitioner working on ephemeral installations, moving images, and performance. Ime Soul presents biomythological work exploring Blackness, abjection, sexuality, and the constraints of language as articulation. Their performances misuse formal qualities of Black church. Often a combination of extended duration and high intensity, Ime Soul uses fatigue as a vehicle to open up a sensorial and reflective space. Like church, witness and participation makes their work complete. Ime Soul received an undergraduate degree in Fine Art and American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022), as well as a graduate degree from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024). Their work has been shown across New York State at spaces ranging from fine art institutions to public interruptions– Performance Space NY, Gallery 495 (‘26), CultureHub (‘26), Intercomm (‘24, ‘25) to name a few.

More to come from Ime’s residency 💥

Slide 1: 📸 @__carolyne__
Slide 2: 🎥 @fluct_monica
Slide 3: 📸 Olena Shkoda

🌀Open Movement DOUBLE FEATURE 🌀

effort embodiment, eternal research with Madison Wada (@____homesick____4):

An exploration of habits that write our characteristics of self and how to become fluent in our own physical language. With extreme physicality we learn to push our own boundaries, to be left in our most pure state. The eternal research of our human form.

🖤Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 4pm 🖤

WIP FEEDBACK FRONT (**rescheduled due to extreme weather) with Ime Soul & Torrestial:

@sazonpackets’s WIP: “Scripts we Learn and Lines we Misremember”
The banality of evil is when hardship meets protocol. Loosely borrowing movement forms from Black American stepping, Baptist praise and worship, and South African gumboot dancing, as well as, text from pop songs and push notifications, Ime Soul moves through financial negotiations with their credit union.

@torrestial’s WIP:
This solo observes a protection ritual. Torrestial learns how to fight, partaking in combat with self-imposed limitations and societal expectations through shadow boxing. Through high-impact dancing with heels, she will integrate sharp movement and slow control between bursts of antagonizing her imaginary opponent. This blatant denial follows the many-layered expressions of grief which will be examined further. She is not in control. Stamina, repetition, strain and exhaustion serve as the vehicle for rage in complete disorganization.

🖤Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 7pm 🖤
–
📌FREE RSVP at the link in our bio!
🖤Organized and curated by @fluct_monica

🌀Open Movement DOUBLE FEATURE 🌀

effort embodiment, eternal research with Madison Wada (@____homesick____4):

An exploration of habits that write our characteristics of self and how to become fluent in our own physical language. With extreme physicality we learn to push our own boundaries, to be left in our most pure state. The eternal research of our human form.

🖤Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 4pm 🖤

WIP FEEDBACK FRONT (**rescheduled due to extreme weather) with Ime Soul & Torrestial:

@sazonpackets’s WIP: “Scripts we Learn and Lines we Misremember”
The banality of evil is when hardship meets protocol. Loosely borrowing movement forms from Black American stepping, Baptist praise and worship, and South African gumboot dancing, as well as, text from pop songs and push notifications, Ime Soul moves through financial negotiations with their credit union.

@torrestial’s WIP:
This solo observes a protection ritual. Torrestial learns how to fight, partaking in combat with self-imposed limitations and societal expectations through shadow boxing. Through high-impact dancing with heels, she will integrate sharp movement and slow control between bursts of antagonizing her imaginary opponent. This blatant denial follows the many-layered expressions of grief which will be examined further. She is not in control. Stamina, repetition, strain and exhaustion serve as the vehicle for rage in complete disorganization.

🖤Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 7pm 🖤
–
📌FREE RSVP at the link in our bio!
🖤Organized and curated by @fluct_monica

🌀Open Movement DOUBLE FEATURE 🌀

effort embodiment, eternal research with Madison Wada (@____homesick____4):

An exploration of habits that write our characteristics of self and how to become fluent in our own physical language. With extreme physicality we learn to push our own boundaries, to be left in our most pure state. The eternal research of our human form.

🖤Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 4pm 🖤

WIP FEEDBACK FRONT (**rescheduled due to extreme weather) with Ime Soul & Torrestial:

@sazonpackets’s WIP: “Scripts we Learn and Lines we Misremember”
The banality of evil is when hardship meets protocol. Loosely borrowing movement forms from Black American stepping, Baptist praise and worship, and South African gumboot dancing, as well as, text from pop songs and push notifications, Ime Soul moves through financial negotiations with their credit union.

@torrestial’s WIP:
This solo observes a protection ritual. Torrestial learns how to fight, partaking in combat with self-imposed limitations and societal expectations through shadow boxing. Through high-impact dancing with heels, she will integrate sharp movement and slow control between bursts of antagonizing her imaginary opponent. This blatant denial follows the many-layered expressions of grief which will be examined further. She is not in control. Stamina, repetition, strain and exhaustion serve as the vehicle for rage in complete disorganization.

🖤Sunday, March 1, 2026 | 7pm 🖤
–
📌FREE RSVP at the link in our bio!
🖤Organized and curated by @fluct_monica

🌀WIP FEEDBACK FRONT

Open Movement presents WIP FEEDBACK FRONT, a chance for artists in our OM community to showcase works in progress in a casual, supportive atmosphere to receive feedback while the works are in development. This month’s WIP is presented by Ime Soul (@sazonpackets) and Torrestial (@torrestial)! 🖤

Ime Soul’s WIP: “Scripts we Learn and Lines we Misremember”
The banality of evil is when hardship meets protocol. Loosely borrowing movement forms from Black American stepping, Baptist praise and worship, and South African gumboot dancing, as well as, text from pop songs and push notifications, Ime Soul moves through financial negotiations with their credit union.

Torrestial’s WIP: 
This solo observes a protection ritual. Torrestial learns how to fight, partaking in combat with self-imposed limitations and societal expectations through shadow boxing. Through high-impact dancing with heels, she will integrate sharp movement and slow control between bursts of antagonizing her imaginary opponent. This blatant denial follows the many-layered expressions of grief which will be examined further. She is not in control. Stamina, repetition, strain and exhaustion serve as the vehicle for rage in complete disorganization.
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📆Open Movement is Sunday, February 22nd, 6PM
📌FREE RSVP at the link in our bio!
🖤Organized and curated by @fluct_monica

We want to sincerely thank everyone who joined us last week for the first iteration of the live performance, ‘Birdsong Blues’ by Ime Soul (@sazonpackets). The final performance will be at 1 PM January 31st. We look forward to seeing you there.

Images by Otto Ohle (@ottoohle)

We want to sincerely thank everyone who joined us last week for the first iteration of the live performance, ‘Birdsong Blues’ by Ime Soul (@sazonpackets). The final performance will be at 1 PM January 31st. We look forward to seeing you there.

Images by Otto Ohle (@ottoohle)

We want to sincerely thank everyone who joined us last week for the first iteration of the live performance, ‘Birdsong Blues’ by Ime Soul (@sazonpackets). The final performance will be at 1 PM January 31st. We look forward to seeing you there.

Images by Otto Ohle (@ottoohle)

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda

Melanie Hoff + Ime Soul Dance Poem Revolution collaboration 1/9/26 @culturehub_org

Incredibly energized and inspired by the poem(s) we made together.

We moved through grief and revolution and I called my bank.

📸: @shkoda