Touching & Tasting: 9 Studies in Sensory Proximity is a multisensory performance that explores the intimate connection between flavor, texture, and human experience through interactive encounters. Created for the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD), audiences are greeted with individualized personality cocktails followed by controversial salad assembly, improvisational pasta choreography, and other studies in sensory proximity. Together we explore how embodiment shapes our understanding of attachment, memory, and materiality.
Created and Performed by Gabrielle Revlock and Sarah K Williams
Sunday, Oct 05 | 3:00PM + 6:30PM
Ticket price includes light food and alchoholic/non-alcholic beverage choice
This event is 21+
GABRIELLE REVLOCK is a performer, educator, and Bessie Award-winning choreographer. Her work has been shown in Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Hungary, Russia, India and nationally at venues including American Dance Festival, The Queens Museum, New York Live Arts, and The Flea. As a dancer, she has performed for Jane Comfort, Susan Marshall, Bill Young, Vicky Shick, Susan Rethorst, and Lucinda Childs, among others. Working at the intersection of wellness and creativity, she is the creator of Restorative Contact, a partner mindful touch and movement practice, and her chapter on the "Therapeutic Applications of Contact Improvisation" is published in the 2024 book, Resistance and Support: Contact Improvisation at 50. Revlock regularly teaches contact improvisation in NYC and at festivals worldwide. She holds a BA in Art History from Vassar College, and an MFA in Dance from Smith College. GabrielleRevlock.com
SARAH K WILLIAMS is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of food, sculpture, and performance. She is the founder of the sculptural snack service Aesthetically Complex Pies, and director of Sprechgesang Institute, a research-based multi-genre artist collective. Recent collaborations and commissions include works for The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Ford Foundation, The ADAR Festival in Spain, Goethe-Institut, and Judson Church. Raised in Virginia and based in Brooklyn, she received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied experimental music at the Universität der Künste in Berlin on a Fulbright Fellowship. She has held residencies with NARS, Wave Hill, Studios at MASS MoCA, Vermont Studio Center, and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. sarahkwlliams.com
