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Jude Markey-Smith
Performance Artist
Projects
Paradise Wind
2025
40 minutes, for three dancers and four musicians.
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A multifaceted, staged investigation into distorted notions of paradise in the post-colonial Americas.
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Link upon request.
Límites (453")
2023
8 minutes, for solo dancer, two musicians and two speakers.
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A dance-theater piece on Markey-Smith's experiences with Andalusian identity, gastronomy, and culture.
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Link for streaming with credits.
Ghost Town
2022
15 minutes, for three dancers and musicians.
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A continued dance-theater meditation on masculinity, fantasy, and loss in the wild west.
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Link for streaming with credits.
John Cage's Water Walk
2022
3 minutes, for solo television performer.
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Markey-Smith's theatrical rendition of John Cage's 1959 television composition Water Walk. Performance made possible by the John Cage Trust and The Fisher Center.
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Link for streaming with credits.
End Of The Trail
2021
13 minutes, for four dancers and four musicians.
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A dance-theater piece on fencing, cowboys, and western fiction.
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Link for streaming with credits.
They All Came To Watch It Descend
2020
32 minutes, streaming.
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8-track album composed and recorded with band Jude and The Obscures and guest artists.
Produced by Rachel Selch and Mastered by Jess Belardi.
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Link for streaming with credits.
The Revival
2020
15 minutes, for solo dancer and three musicians.
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A dance-theater work on themes of Christian revival, ecstasy, and cosmology.
Video presentation March 2020, and private showing February 2021 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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Link upon request.
