Moving Parts is a project of Meg Foley’s and is the name she ascribes to her various dance- and performance-based actions that explore the materiality of dance, identity, and their relationship to choreographic form.
Moving Parts is also the resident company of The Whole Shebang, a studio space that hosts dance, theatre, healing arts, and creative practice classes and workshops in South Philadelphia. Visit thewholeshebangphilly.com for more info.
Currently, Foley is developing Blood Baby, a performance project exploring drag, queer motherhood, and gender performance as somatic practices. Beginning from the premise that identity is a physical material, meaning a somatic experience that has the potential to transform and re-identify your body, Blood Baby uses movement and ‘somatic drag’ to explore gender identity’s physical prescriptions in tandem with the transition to motherhood through the lens of queer experience and belonging. Blood Baby continues my pursuit of radical self-determination as choreography and makes space for queer sexuality to emerge from and be a part of motherhood.
Moving Parts truly believes in performance and art as a catalyst for human and community development and cultural change, to create a more humane world. All of our programming at Shebang and in independent projects focuses on fostering ways to be in your body and to recognize the form and dynamics at play and as potential new futures.
Learn More: http://www.megfoley.org