Upcoming Events

Let’s close *Traumwelt* with a double performance night and a surprise act for the afterparty. *Traumwelt* (German for “dream world”) is an immersive exhibition and performance series that reimagines the gallery as an evolving interior landscape of flowing textiles, moving projections, living sound, and somatic performance. Curated by Charlotte Müller and presented by Snap Collective, the exhibition brings together international artists working across dance, sound, photography, sculpture, and responsive technology. Together, they explore impermanence, memory, and resilience, weaving a shared thread of fabric, both literal and metaphorical, throughout the installation. Snap Collective also presents a curated selection of art books and activations, highlighting the craft and materiality behind each publication. For our closing night, we invite you to dream and let the art move you. **Show Details** 7:00 PM Arrivals and cocktails 7:30–8:00 PM Live piano meditation by Aida Saco Beiroa 8:00–8:30 PM Intermission 8:30–9:00 PM Live performance by Carly Lave & Johnny Tomasiello Afterwards Drinks, DJ, and surprise act **About the Artists** Choreographer and dancer Carly Lave performs draped in flowing textiles, her gestures activating a responsive sonic landscape developed by multidisciplinary artist and composer-researcher Johnny Tomasiello. Using wearable MUGIC® motion sensors, her movements generate an evolving bioresponsive score, allowing sound to emerge directly from gesture and motion in real time. The performance unfolds within a sculptural environment by photographer and installation artist Rob Woodcox. Aida Saco Beiroa performs a selection of her newest works. She is a Galician pianist and composer known for blending classical training with contemporary, cinematic influences. A Fulbright scholar, she studied across Europe and at the Manhattan School of Music, and now performs, composes, and teaches in New York. Relax and unwind from the rhythm of the city. Rob Woodcox’s installation combines sculpture, drapery, and photography to honor lives lost in recent conflicts, transforming fragility and devastation into expressions of beauty and resilience. Photographer Stasia Schmidt (Ephemerality series, 2024 Leica Women Foto Project Award) and artist Sok Song (Yale MFA) extend the exhibition’s exploration of impermanence and material transformation through sculptural and photographic works. Publisher and curator Charlotte Müller draws inspiration from early modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller, whose use of fabric, light, and motion helped establish a new visual language in performance. *Traumwelt* revisits this lineage through contemporary technologies and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Join us at Gallery 198 for an evening of surrealist comedy in short film: **“The Making of the Making Of”** by Fritz Donnelly — a mockumentary whose behind-the-scenes premise gradually spirals into comic collapse. **“When David Met Jane: A Lynchian Affair”** by Hannah Louise Barnard and Amy Catherine Welch — a dreamlike chance encounter that playfully channels the uncanny romance and tonal strangeness associated with the Lynchian universe. Doors open at 7pm; presentation at 7:30pm; DJ dance reception to follow. All ages welcome.

Doors open 1 hour before ticket/show time. **An Intimate 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** (Tel Aviv), along with dancer **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. For this special presentation, she is joined by Eldar Baruch, an internationally collaborating composer and live performer whose work spans dance, theatre, film, and video art. Based in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and New York, Baruch creates immersive sound environments that respond directly to choreography and performance. *“My kinetic drawings offer an expanded notion of dance as a multi-dimensional experience. The origin is the body—my tool for crafting choreographic tasks—and the byproduct is a visual artifact created by charcoal on paper: a ‘score’ or ‘print’ of the live performance that remains.” — Renata Sheppard* Renata Sheppard has lived and worked across the United States, Europe, and Asia as a Fulbright Scholar, Henry Luce Scholar, Kate Neal Kinley Fellow, and U.S. Embassy Artist Research grantee. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges performance, visual art, and public engagement, informed by a background in arts education and somatic practices including yoga, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, and Gyrotonic®.

Doors open 1 hour before ticket/show time. **An Intimate 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** (Tel Aviv), along with dancer **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. For this special presentation, she is joined by Eldar Baruch, an internationally collaborating composer and live performer whose work spans dance, theatre, film, and video art. Based in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and New York, Baruch creates immersive sound environments that respond directly to choreography and performance. *“My kinetic drawings offer an expanded notion of dance as a multi-dimensional experience. The origin is the body—my tool for crafting choreographic tasks—and the byproduct is a visual artifact created by charcoal on paper: a ‘score’ or ‘print’ of the live performance that remains.” — Renata Sheppard* Renata Sheppard has lived and worked across the United States, Europe, and Asia as a Fulbright Scholar, Henry Luce Scholar, Kate Neal Kinley Fellow, and U.S. Embassy Artist Research grantee. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges performance, visual art, and public engagement, informed by a background in arts education and somatic practices including yoga, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, and Gyrotonic®.

Doors open 1 hour before ticket/show time. **An Intimate 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** (Tel Aviv), along with dancer **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. For this special presentation, she is joined by Eldar Baruch, an internationally collaborating composer and live performer whose work spans dance, theatre, film, and video art. Based in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and New York, Baruch creates immersive sound environments that respond directly to choreography and performance. *“My kinetic drawings offer an expanded notion of dance as a multi-dimensional experience. The origin is the body—my tool for crafting choreographic tasks—and the byproduct is a visual artifact created by charcoal on paper: a ‘score’ or ‘print’ of the live performance that remains.” — Renata Sheppard* Renata Sheppard has lived and worked across the United States, Europe, and Asia as a Fulbright Scholar, Henry Luce Scholar, Kate Neal Kinley Fellow, and U.S. Embassy Artist Research grantee. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges performance, visual art, and public engagement, informed by a background in arts education and somatic practices including yoga, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Laban Movement Analysis, and Gyrotonic®.