Please support Eury & Spenser's first NYC split-bill show!
Eury & Spenser are both independent multidisciplinary artists (dancers, choreographers & arts professor) currently working and living in New York City.
Cyclic, is our first ever NYC split-bill show! This evening of dance fuses two distinct yet interwoven choreographic works that explore the self through temporal and social dimensions. At their core, both pieces reflect on the fluidity of identity, the passage of time, and the complexity of human connection.
As we embark on this next phase of our artistic careers, we need your support to make sure we are able to produce this concert in the most ethical manner. We have connected with several incredible artists who have worked with us for countless hours inside and outside the studio. Their unrelenting trust and belief in our work, and the artistic process, have been an undeniable force that has advanced this concert forward.
As artists ourselves, and given our current global political and economic landscape, we believe it is imperative to compensate our artists appropriately. 100% of the funds raised through this campaign will go towards artists' and production fees. We would like to pay our dancers and collaborators for all of the time they have already committed to this project, the remaining rehearsals, and the performance.
Please consider donating to this campaign so that we are able to finish this project in the most honest and meaningful way, but most importantly so that our fellow collaborators and artists are able to continue creating art that is thought provoking and transformative!
Donations towards this campaign come with perks!
Under $50: A personal thank you and acknowledgement message from us!
$50-99: A personalized thank you message from all artists involved + the above perk!
$100-249: Your name will appear in the back of the evening's program + the above perks!
$250-499: Your name will appear in the front of the evening's program +the above perks!
Over $500: Your name will be acknowledged at the beginning of our show as an underwriter, personalized rehearsal footage (videos and photos), and a Q&A with us + all the above perks!
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Continue reading below to learn more about us and our artistic processes:
About the work:
The first work, moment(o)moment, draws from Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal return, exploring the cyclical nature of existence, where time loops endlessly, and every action reverberates with the weight of infinite return. Through the language of movement, this concept becomes a canvas for examining both personal and collective transformations. The choreography reflects how the body moves through time—not merely as a passive vessel, but as an active force that affirms and reaffirms itself with each cycle. As the dancer navigates these repeating moments, their movements question the metaphysical experience of time—how does the body return to itself, and how does it transform with every repetition? This work challenges the boundaries between personal identity and universal experience, making the cycle of time not only a philosophical reflection but also a visceral, embodied journey.
The second work, intero, examines how choreographic structures influence emotional perception and social processing through somatosensory activation. In collaboration with Dr. Meletaki at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, the work explores how anger and happiness manifest kinesthetically. Utilizing a sequential emotional discriminatory task, emotionally valent musical score initiated movement scores, which were mirrored and transmitted between dancers, serving as a metric for socio-emotional synergy. Additionally, the cardio-synchrony alignment task measured the dancers’ BPM through rhythmic intention cross referenced with radial pulse check-ins. Grounded in neurochoreographic principles, the piece merges improvisation with structured composition to balance raw authenticity and precision. intero ultimately challenges rigid emotional categorization, expanding the expressive depth of movement.
About the artists:
Eury German (he/him) is a dancer, choreographer, and dance professor based in New York City, NY. A brown, queer, and immigrant artist born in the Dominican Republic, Eury's creative projects focus on the immigrant community, identity, being, and existence. Eury has a BA in Dance and Biology from Wesleyan University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance Performance and Pedagogy from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has danced with various New York City companies and choreographers including, but not limited to, Abdul Latif - D2D/T, Jennifer Muller The Works, Nimbus Dance Works, Ballet Hispanico, inDance | Toronto, James Swell Ballet, and more. His choreographic projects have been featured at Wesleyan University, the Alicia Alonso Institute of Dance at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid, and in various small NYC community dance festivals. Eury has taught at multiple universities and training programs in the United States and in Spain, where he completed a Fulbright research arts project from 2022-2023. v/sopao, Eury’s first international, evening length, self-produced work, premiered in Madrid, Spain in June of 2023. (@eurygerm)
Throughout Spenser Stroud’s (he/him) career as a young creative, his studies and work have centered on the intersection of applied neuroscience and performance art. Spenser began his studies by completing a certificate in contemporary dance at The Ailey School in NYC. He then obtained a B.A. degree in both Dance and Neuroscience from Wesleyan University, followed by an M.A. degree in Performance Studies from New York University. Spenser’s ongoing focus has been concurrent research in human cognition and contemporary choreography while seeking and exploring intersections of these realms. This dual focus has led him to a diverse array of professional appointments, ranging from researcher at The Center for Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital to lead choreographer for Katie Pearl’s Slabber and artistic consultant at the Center for International Dance UNESCO. His novel creative approach, through the curation of choreographic aesthetics gleaned from empirical research techniques, has allotted him a range of abilities to tailor performance aimed at arousing the human psyche and to pair his art with complementary scientific analysis.
