Somatic and Devised Performance Workshop with Kyla Kegler

Monday, April 7, 6–8 pm

Free or suggested donation. Limited capacity. Open to ages 16+

Register below

Squeaky Wheel presents a special performance based workshop with Workspace Resident Kyla Kegler (Buffalo, NY) based on her project Care-Core that examines self-care, collective care, and somatic knowledge. Participants will be guided through a series of somatic / embodiment exercises, journaling in response to prompts, group sharing, culminating in the collaborative development and ultimately performance of a Sesame-Street-esque song and dance responding to what emerges from this process. The workshop is suitable for all bodies and levels of experience.

Attendees: For the workshop, please:

• Wear comfy clothes / footwear you can move in
• Bring a reference object: anything at all that you’re interested in looking at and thinking about
• Bring a notebook + pen
• Squeaky Wheel is located in Suite 310 of Tri-Main Center. Take the elevator to the third floor, and head left. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Click here to see parking, transportation, and accessibility information.

This event is part of the Spring session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Visual Arts and Teiger Foundation.

Biography of the artist

Kyla Kegler is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores desire and connection between people, place and purpose. She is the founder and director of performance / movement space Agatha Falls. Kegler’s practice draws from her past work with Bread and Puppet Theater (Vermont) and as co-founder of theater, “Zuhause” (Berlin, Germany). She received an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Art University of Berlin and an MFA in Studio Art from the University at Buffalo. Her past projects include: Feel Me, video installation exploring the mindfulness industry; The House on Fire Show, teen web-drama about the climate crisis; Mountains: a tragicomedic puppet soap opera; Relationships don’t finish, they change, a video and sculpture installation exhibited at the Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 2024.