Inside the Room with Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel
Thursday, November 2, 6:30 - 7:30 pm
FREE RSVP

“The Space is a Body and You Are In It” is a collaborative world-building (and world-falling apart) game designed by Anna Kroll and Chloë Engel featured in their installation in the SPARK 6: Refractions exhibition. Developed during the early days of the pandemic when dancing together only became possible through speech, the game engages bodily awareness, the (im)possibility of a shared imagination, and coping with inevitable disaster. In this intimate performance, audience members are invited to watch Anna and Chloë play the game-- building an imaginary space and watching it fall apart. 

Anna Kroll & Chloë Engel are interdisciplinary artists, improvisers, listeners, and long-term collaborators. We swear we make dances, but they’re also phone calls, choose-your-own-adventure vignettes, living installations, games, and/or oracles for predicting our ecological destiny. Our work has been presented in Tendon magazine and a part of re:semblance at New Media Artspace (NYC/ online), in Spark IV: A New World? (Baltimore / online) and Mind on Fire (Baltimore). Our current project is an immersive tabletop game called The Space is a Body and You Are In It. We have facilitated collaborative imagining workshops independently and through The Deep Play Institute and School of Making Thinking. 

Anna’s work has been shown at No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), in Philadelphia theaters, rivers, and subway underpasses, at FringeArts’ Scratch Night, Open Call Guerilla Outdoor Performance Festival, Invisible River’s Schuylkill River Arts Day, Cathy Weis' Sundays on Broadway (NYC), and Danspace's Draftwork series (NYC). She received an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Art from UMBC in 2023.

Chloë works with children and makes performances about being a child. Chloë’s performance work has been shown at Lifeworld (Brooklyn, NY), AUNTS (Brooklyn, NY), Open Performance at Movement Research, No Theme Festival (Poughkeepsie, NY), Little Berlin (Philadelphia, PA), Middlebury College, and Bennington College.

SPARK programming is made possible by a partnership with PNC Bank.