Exhibition Description

Stelo Arts

Saturday, June 20th | 2PM - 4PM

Please join us Saturday June 20th at 2:00 pm for a live performance inside Field Studies by celebrated Portland dancer/choreographer Laura Cannon. This will be the latest in a series of collaborations between Fernanda and Laura that began with Break to Build in 2023. A hidden message within Field Studies, audible only as pulses of Morse code comes from the Light Eaters and has guided the work of the Field Studies team for the last year and a half of research and creation.

"The entangled, inextricable web of other beings forms a microcosmic, macroscopic sea of shifting identity and form. Each plant is an embodied world we stand to lose, every ecosystem another galaxy"

Laura’s embodied response to this message and to her fellow dancers inside the video brings Field Studies to life in a whole new way.

Seating is limited. RSVP required.

About The Performer

Laura Kathrein

Laura Kathrein is a Boston-based movement artist, community arts organizer and educator whose interdisciplinary practice centers on embodiment, environmental awareness and collaboration. Through dance, movement analysis and site-specific improvisation, Kathrein explores how bodies respond to natural systems, fostering environmental empathy. Collaboration is central to her work, which frequently engages musicians, visual artists and both human and animal movers. Kathrein’s work includes iEMBODY, a series of movement video installations inside PEM’s Art & Nature Center. From 2015 to 2020, she developed Miracle of Movement, a five-year daily practice integrating embodied research, environmental engagement and community participation. She holds a Master of Education in Community Arts with a specialization in Environmental Arts from Lesley University. Her training includes ballet and modern dance techniques, contact improvisation and circus arts.