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Abigail & Mary

Abigail Aleksander works as a per­for­mer and col­la­bo­ra­tor with a vari­e­ty of artists inclu­ding: Alexis Blake, Philipp Gehmacher, Jan Martens, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Michiel Vandevelde. They began their dan­ce trai­ning at The Centre For Advanced Training (The Place) in London befo­re gra­du­a­ting with their Bachelor of Arts from P.A.R.T.S. in 2022 in Brussels. SKINFOLD is their first cho­re­o­grap­hic co-creation. 

Mary Szydłowska works at the inter­sec­ti­on of visu­al and per­for­ming arts. Their prac­ti­ce tra­ces the wit­h­drawn and peri­p­he­ral qua­li­ties of presence/​absence, unfol­ding the poli­tics of per­cep­ti­on and atten­ti­on through dura­ti­o­nal envi­ron­ments. Their work was pre­sen­ted at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, among others. They finis­hed MA STUDIOS pro­gram­me at P.A.R.T.S. in 2021 and are cur­rent­ly a research com­pa­n­ion at THIRD, DAS Graduate School in Amsterdam