Collaborators Side-by-Side
Image description: a colorful graphic shows three groupings of people in different silly poses. In the background are three big circles, one blue, one orange, one green. The background of the graphic is yellow.
December 13th @ 7 PM
Mascher Space Cooperative
1170 S Broad St
FREE! Donations Accepted
Featuring works by Chloe Marie, Shannon Brooks, and Shannon Murphy
Collaborators Side-By-Side incubates new creativity and individual projects from Collaborators (past and present) of The Naked Stark. This free event features 2-3 artists sharing work at any stage of development followed by a discussion. Each collaborator receives an honorarium for sharing. All donations go to the pool to support the honorarium fund.
Accessibility: The entrance to Mascher Space Cooperative is up 3 steps. There is no ramp. Two non-gendered bathrooms are located in the basement down a flight of stairs. There is no elevator.
December 13 Program
Chloe sitting on the floor, knees up, feet on the floor, arms resting on knees, hands extended forward, head dropped. Alex is resting on Chloe, chest toward the ceiling, head resting on Chloe’s head, hands on his face. In the background audience members sit and stand.
Chloe Marie & Alex Brazinski
Chloe Marie is a multi-disciplinary artist from San Diego, California who is currently based in Philadelphia. In 2013, Chloe moved to Philadelphia to attend The University of the Arts where they received their BFA in 2017. While at UARTS they worked with artists of many different dance styles. Chloe is currently a full time freelance dance artist, this includes, performing, teaching, choreographing, and directing movement for theater and music videos. Chloe has been dancing, collaborating, and learning with The Naked Stark since 2018.
Alex Brazinski is a licensed acupuncturist and movement specialist and focuses his practice on sports injuries, pain management, mobility issues, and stress management. Alex spent most of his 20s pursuing movement-based practices such as acrobatics, floorwork, yoga, and martial arts. Alex has studied intensively under Tom Weksler through Movement Archery and Zen Acrobatics and now teaches dance acrobatics classes at Urban Movement Arts in Philadelphia. Alex had spent the summer of 2023 working as a dancer/acrobat with the Des Moines Metropolitan Opera in it’s production of The Love of Three Oranges. Alex is also currently practicing acupuncture in Philadelphia.
About today’s work:
Alex and Chloe are sharing a duet we have been working on for a few months now. First premiered at the UMA floor fundraiser.
Photo by Shannon Brooks
Image description: Two feet are in the lower part of the frame. The top half of the left. The whole right foot is visible with seaweed attached to each toe. The feet are standing on sand and other seaweed and beech creatures are visible.
Shannon Brooks
I am a multisensory, multimedia artist. I am a self-identified freak/weirdo. My practice is iterative, takes time and shifts form to research an idea, a feeling, or a question often using movement, performance, sound, sculpture, video, social-based practices. I play with the range of our senses to investigate relationships between ecology, disability, systems of power, and material and immaterial worlds. As a Disabled/low-vision person, I understand accessibility as a creative force and experiment with decentralizing sight in my practice - reaching into what we cannot see. I am a long time admirer of The Naked Stark and have had the pleasure of documenting a few of the company's performances and their Collaborator's Side-By-Side performances!
About today’s work:
Sharing an experiment with the seaweed wrack zone.
Shannon in a black tank top and black pants draped over a rock bolder that is covered in moss. In the background rock and moss.
Shannon Murphy
Shannon Murphy (she/her) is a dance artist and educator whose work invites attention to complexity, differentiation, and resilience across classroom, studio, and stage. She holds an MFA from the University of the Arts and a BA from Point Park University, and is senior faculty in the Franklin Method for dance at the Franklin Method Institute in Switzerland, training educators internationally since 2019. Committed to radical sustainability in education, Shannon develops curricula that reduce injury and support performer resilience. She is an Assistant Professor at Temple University and has previously taught at Drexel University, Stockton University, and UArts, where she served as Curricular Head of Body Pathways for a decade. Her choreography—spanning contemporary performance, dance theater, and musical theater—has been commissioned by Subcircle Residency and presented at Cannonball Festival, the Penn Museum, and The Painted Bride Art Center. She has performed with artists including Charles Anderson, Nichole Canuso, Group Motion, Jaamil Kosoko, and Annie Wilson, and co-directed idiosynCrazy productions with founder Makini (Jumatatu Poe).
A Rocky Award recipient, Shannon’s work has been supported by residencies at New Edge, Live Arts LAB, Mascher Space Co-Op, the Whole Shebang, Archedream for Humankind, UArts, and Temple University’s Duckworth Scholars Studio. She is grateful to share her work again with the support of The Naked Stark and appreciates Katherine’s stewardship of a nurturing creative community.
About today’s work:
Exploring the erosion and deposition of body and place, Shannon is sharing a solo work in process that was developed from the site specific performance journey, "To Enter We have to be Okay with Leaving." The Research for this work includes imagining a circulatory system that is connected to earth, and seeps into the space and pace of soil. The solo work remains untitled.
Collaborators Side-by-Side Past & Future!
UPCOMING February, 2026
Elizabeth Bergman
Kayliani Sood
Noel Price-Bracey
March 29, 2025
Dirtbaby Farm presented work by Amalia Colón-Nava, Evenlyn Langley, & Joseph Ahmed
Meredith Stapleton along with Wynn and Marland
April 18, 2024
Amalia Colón-Nava
Aubrey Donisch & Shana Crawford
Marcie Mamura
February 16, 2024
Chachi Perez
Chloe Marie & Lee Clarke
Katherine Kiefer Stark
A Series of informal events (2017 & 2019)
Before there was Collaborators Side-by-Side!
Motivated by our desire to share and discuss our own work-in-progress, paired with our philosophy that part of nourishing ourselves and creating sustainable movement-art practices is supporting other artists and working together to build a community, we created A Series of Informal Events.
Modeled after the old FringeArts ScratchNight series, our free series features 2-3 artists sharing 10-25 minutes of work, with each work followed by a discussion. Spring 2019, we collaborated with Shannon Murphy, guest curator, and Vox Populi, venue, hosted our events.
SPRING 2017, April, May, June: Curated by Katherine Kiefer Stark
Featured work-in-progress by Antonia Z Brown, Meredith Stapleton, stb x at, Teresa VanDenend Sorge, The Naked Stark
FALL 2017, October, November, December: Curated by Katherine Kiefer Stark
Featured work-in-progess by Amy Lynne Barr & Elizabeth Bergman, Lyons and Tigers,
Loren Groenendaal / Vervet Dance, Paige Phillips, Sean Thomas Boyt, The Naked Stark
SPRING 2019, February, April, June: Curated by Shannon Murphy
Featured work-in-progress by Chelsea Murphy, Harlee Trautman & Mary-Carmen Webb, Jhelan Gordon-Salaam, Meg Foley, Meghan Frederick & Kate Seethaler, Olive Prince Dance
