Earwalk Towards the Clavicle

Saturday November 7 | doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm

$20 ADVANCE tickets | $25 DAY OF SHOW | $10 STUDENT tickets with ID | always pay what you can

Earwalk Toward the Clavicle suspends in the instant a bolt of lightning strikes the exact coordinates it struck a millennium ago, a millisecond stretching into eternity. Oracle Egg transforms into a crater, a particle accelerator where concentrated energy changes state without losing its trace, spewing out creatures of song, speed, and pure light.

Lightning becomes a model for the work’s investigation into how concentrated energy can persist across realms. A spectrogram translates sound into an image, mapping frequency and amplitude over time. Normally, the resulting image bears little obvious resemblance to the physical event that produced the sound. Lightning is different. The electrical discharge we perceive as a branching form generates measurable signals that, when translated into spectrograms, retain recognizable traces of the event itself. This suggests that energy does not necessarily lose its form as it moves between sensory or representational realms.

Drawing from our explorations of embodiment and sound that disrupt contemporary forms in order to return them to something more primal, in this performance we use the spectrographic record of a lightning bolt as an analogy for the relationship between physical movement and sound. In this relationship, movement and sound become forms of energy that can be translated, transformed, and carried across perceptual registers while preserving a semblance of their original true forms.

Demetris Charalambous

Demetris Charalambous is an experimental choreographer, performer, and visual artist born and raised in Cyprus. Emerging from an invented cosmology, their work reinterprets the world around them through surreal, mythical, and absurd prisms, opening portals to new kaleidoscopic worlds. Demetris’s movement practice explores modes of embodiment that disrupt contemporary form and resist assimilation. Demetris’s work and collaborations have been presented at Judson Memorial Church, Mabou Mines, Center for Performance Research, Performance Space New York, Friedrichs Pontone Gallery and Sundays on Broadway, as well as internationally at the Cyprus Choreography Platform, Antiskino Festival and the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, among others. Demetris is a Fellowship Recipient at NYU Production Lab 2026, a Movement Research Artist in Residence 2026-2027 and Triskelion Arts Artist in Residence 2027.

Quique Rios-Ellis

Quique Rios-Ellis is a Mexican American sound artist, DJ, filmmaker, and photographer from Long Beach, California. Through sonic storytelling, their practice prioritizes, worships, and aims to preserve beauty. They are obsessed with beauty, want pocketfuls of it on them at all times. Their sound has scored performances and installations Performance Space New York, Mabou Mines Theater, Chocolate Factory Theater, The New York Public Library, the Chelsea Factory, Anti-Skino festival in Cyprus, Michael Cacoyanis theater in Athens, and Judson Memorial Church. Their poetry has been published in the winter 2025 edition of The Poetry Society of New Yorks’ Milk Press Magazine and their photography, filmmaking and music has been published in multiple editions of Submission Beauty Magazine.