Sophia Cleary is a performance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the founder and coordinator of the works-in-progress series REHEARSAL and is co-editor for Ugly Duckling Presse's performance annual Emergency INDEX. She has worked with the Kate Bush Dance Troupe, Ann Liv Young, Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron), Neal Medlyn, and Alexandra Bachzetsis. She has presented her work at the Bushwick Starr, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, and Dixon Place. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY Master of Arts, Performance Studies 2011
Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT Bachelor of Arts, Dance and Art History 2010
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL Video and Performance 2009
Performance
Group at Chain Curation Event #2 presented by AUNTS at St. Nick’s Alliance, Brooklyn, NY May 2013
you can make me look really good at Independent Art Fair presented by the Kitchen through Emergency INDEX, March 2013
E.S.P. T.V. Christmas Special by the Kate Bush Dance Troupe, performers/members: Sophia Cleary, Sonia Stagg, Samara Davis, Sophia Peer, Erica Magrey and Jen Sullivan at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Educational Center, NY, December 2012 /// Previous performances at Sculpture Center, September 2012; Tandem, June 2011; 179 Canal Street 2011; The Kitchen, December 2009
Getting Along by Sophia Cleary, Samara Davis, Joseph Teeling and Jen Rosenblit with contributions by Tara Willis and Adjua Greaves for the Movement Research 2012 fall festival at Danspace Project, NY, December 2012
something like The Tirade with Joseph Teeling at Mason Gross School of the Arts, February 2013 and with Ana Lieberman at AUNTS Realness, American Realness Festival at Abrons Art Center, January 2013
The Tirade created and performed by Sophia Cleary featuring Kate Berlant through Little Theater at Dixon Place, NY, October 2012 /// Previous performances at Cho Chiqq, July 2012 and through Spring Movement at Center for Performance Research, NY, June 2012
brother sister lover created and performed by Sophia Cleary featuring Joseph Teeling at Marlboro College, VT, March 2012 and through Workshop on the Bowery, New York, NY, February 2012 /// Previous performances with Gideon Grody-Patinkin at Movement Research Open Performance, NY, November 2011
what the shit created and performed by Sophia Cleary at the Bushwick Starr, April 2011, NY /// Previous performances through Laughter as Medium, NY, March 2011
I want to be inside you created and performed by Sophia Cleary at Brooklyn Fire Proof Brooklyn, NY SITE FEST March 2011 Previous performance in August 2010