Using provocations, personal histories, and choreographic tools, Irina Varina and Sheila Zagar develop structured movement improvisations to explore themes of aging, care and sexuality between two people almost 40 years apart. Sheila Zagar is a teacher, choreographer and performing artist from Philadelphia. Her dance practice is a safe space to live dangerously and she navigates her world through dancing. A big part of Sheila’s life is empowering seniors through acts of creative expression. She’s been teaching movement in various senior centers for over 30 years, using languages of dance to tell human stories rooted in memory and possibility. She collaborated and performed with Headlong Dance Theater, FringeArts, Mascher Collective, among others. Irina Varina is an actress, mover and filmmaker splitting her time between NYC and Philly. Most of her projects start out as explorations of life experiences that are hard to put into words or seem too shameful. She performed at Peoples Improv Theater, New Ohio Theater, FringeArts. Irina moonlights as the Minister of Loneliness, collecting loneliness claims on busy streets, and, most recently, as an artist-in-residence at Bryn Mawr College, Villanova University, and SXSW.
