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VOL 2: Gesture Studies w/@gesturestudies Sunday, Nov 8 | 2:30pm - 5:30 >Free Sign Up + Limited Space Available Use Link In Bio . . . VOL 2 > A curated workshop series spotlighting boundary-pushing artists and their practices. > Each month, we’ll dive into movement, sound, text, and visual play designed to spark new ideas and expand your creative toolbox. All workshops are FREE Learn more: Deviseexperiment.com #Theater #theatre #nyctheater #workshop #devisedtheatre
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still reeling from last week……….I produced my first show: Noel Olson Is Getting Top Surgery and it was the best night ever :’3 huge thanks incoming to…… all the incredible performers @avame0 @lizzychoi @groovybluezy @lulumunte @tench.nology @rswittles @mjmarkovitz @gesturestudies our insanely talented dj @clouds_marbles_pianos_puppies @zoethehumanoid for taking these stunning photos everyone on the auction table @herekittyjean @eliza.bayne @tench.nology @sick4sythe @nyahmarie.4 for reading tarot @piouspriusprince on spotlight @purgatory.bk for hosting and everyone working that night AND TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT!!!!! I can’t begin to express how grateful I am to have such a wonderful community, I feel overwhelmingly supported and loved and I count those blessings every day - thank you :’)
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Cboy swag
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Summer is OVER! Hot sweaty robot time Also love life, life is good Cool :P
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Lou as ROBO CLOWN AND MANY OTHERS for NEW VOICES at @creaturespacenyc Photography by @phinn.with.an.f
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I hope that if the robots do take our jobs that they’re at least hot and sexy It was such a pleasure to lend my body and voice to @gesturetheater @gesturestudies to this incredible project - happy to be ur sexy front flipping, twirling, manic apple iPhone voice assistant any day 🫡 📸 Photos by @phinn.with.an.f
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LULU THE ROBO CAT! New Voices 2026 at Creature Space :) Brilliant dancer @lulumunte Beautiful photos by Finn Piper @phinn.with.an.f
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A summer of love 🦋🥭🌻🌱🦎👣🍇🍍🌶️ 1- Morgen and I 2- tinyDANCE @bar.jade.bk photo by @youknowju 3- @emly.ol and I visit Anna, ft. carrots 4- waterfall with uila, Morgen, and Miranda 5- Morgen and I again 6- waterfall with uila, Miranda, Morgen, and Brianna 7- Lou and I ft. the tallest mountain of my hair, photo by @youknowju 8- Morgen and Brianna making skewers 9- Miranda cracking an egg 10- Miranda and I ft. @pitviper 11- Emily and I visit Anna, picnic edition 12- the holly bush for a roast with Anna and Brian 13- Morgen and I in the waterfall pool 14- Jane, Annie and I at the Dyke March 15- my baby Frida
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Gesture Theater & slowDANCE are proud to present NEW VOICES, the robot show by Lou Sydel. August 8+9th at @creaturespacenyc 🤖 TICKETS IN BIO! Live sound by Jo Weinberg @clouds_marbles_pianos_puppies Guest performances: Lulu Munteanu @lulumunte & Peet Elizalde @peteralfredelizalde NEW VOICES peers into the history of technologically generated voices and the trans experience of building a new voice. We meet a range of masked characters, from the 1939 World’s Fair “Voice Operation Demonstrator” to Amazon’s Alexa and more. What can we learn about ourselves by looking at how we interact with artificial voices? Poster by @gesturestudies 1 by @johnengphotography 2 by @_cb0y @carriganboynton 3 by @judefrancesdurr 4 by @_joaosanchez_ 5-7 by @alicechaconphotography
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tinyDANCE II at @bar.jade.bk was a night to remember :) Photography tagged accordingly by @clouds_marbles_pianos_puppies & @youknowju THANKS FOR COMING and supporting our conceptual queer site specific programming :) ARTISTS: @morgenlittlejohn @suzmurrayy / @kachonk_tm @femmeinboots @drop_dead_joe & @melmadness03 @lizzychoi @emmaree13 SOUND: @chaosmopolitan
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We’re excited to welcome Lou Sydel @gesturestudies/ @gesturetheater as our first ever solo space artist! Lou will share NEW VOICES, a solo performance exploring gender, technology, and the trans experience through physical theater, gesture, and voice. Blending characters from the 1939 World’s Fair to Amazon’s Alexa, the work asks what our changing relationships with technology—and our own voices—can reveal about identity. 📅 August 8 & 9 🕒 7:30pm (no late-entry!) 📍 Creature Space, Gowanus, Brooklyn Ticket link in bio. 🎟 We offer tiered ticket pricing to help keep our performances accessible for artists and our broader community. If you’re able, choosing a Supporter Ticket helps make lower-cost tickets possible for others. See you soon at Creature Space! 🪩 second page poster design by Lou Sydel ~~ Lou Sydel is a choreographer, clown, and physical-theater artist. His work connects the linguistic study of gesture to experiences of queerness, asking the question: what does movement reveal about culture? Lou is the artistic director of Gesture Theater, a devising company of trans clowns, dancers, actors, and puppeteers. Lou is a founder and part of the curatorial team for NYC’s first ever Physical Theater festival, PhysFest, at Stella Adler. More curatorial work with WestFest Top Floor and Dance Parade. Together with Lucia Gagliardone, Lou runs slowDANCE, a dance cooperative with an emphasis on community and process-forward work, where they produce monthly workshare potlucks, immersive nightlife pop-ups, full length works, and more. Lou has taught children and adults at: Wendy’s Subway, Devise/Experiment, Bill Bowers’ Physical Theater Lab, WADE’s Movement for Survivors, Soma Soup, and more. He trained in mask work and clown at the Accademia Dell’Arte in Italy, and interdisciplinary performance theater at Bowdoin College. Notable performances include NYLA with Ellen Robbins’ Alumni, Arts on Site, Creature Space, Triskelion Arts, La MaMa Puppet Slam, Celebration Barn Theater, Brooklyn Art Haus, The Center at West Park, Edinburgh Fringe, and the International Society for Gesture Studies.
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Pride! For being gay and trans! Love is here and in the air! We are all queer all year but I can't help but celebrate a little with the photo dump :P June was full of beauty and blooms! Woot woot!
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