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Trans Body

An Exploration of Embodied History and Corporeality

March 30, 2019 | 2:00p
United Church on the Green Parish House
323 Temple Street, New Haven

A special commission by the New Haven Pride Center in honor of Transgender Day of Visibility and in conjunction with the Nasty Women Connecticut exhibition Complicit: Erasure of the Body.

After a month-long collaboration, the Elm City Dance Collective and trans-identified Karleigh Chardonnay Merlot present a special project that they created together while exploring the context of transgender identity, history and corporeality. The project asked the questions: How do we embody and perform our own history? How do we tell stories about ourselves through movement? How can we express trans identity through dance?

Since it’s debut in 2019, Trans Body has become a yearly tradition and an integral part of our Trans Week of Visibility celebration. We invite you to check out all of the iterations of Trans Body by clicking the links below!

Photo by Joel Callaway

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About the Artists

Karleigh Webb (she/her)
Karleigh has been in sports journalism and sports broadcasting for 26 years. She is currently a writer-contributor to Outsports in addition to doing varied freelance editing/videography and producing projects through her firm Karleigh Webb Video in Connecticut. When not chasing a story, Karleigh is a crisis operator for Trans Lifeline. North America’s only 24-hour-a-day, 7-days-a-week hotline dedicated to the need of transgender people. She considers her service as an honor as great as her awards and commendations she has earned as a journalist. It is this work that also fuels her work as a activist centering around human rights, anti-war issues, and the fight against economic violence placed upon working people. Sports is not just a piece of her craft and passion, it is also her hobby. A lifelong athlete, Karleigh is an active, budding duathlete-triathlete, and love to get behind the plate in softball and be the signal-caller behind center in flag-football.
Elm City Dance Collective

Elm City Dance Collective was formed in 2008 by four dance artists with the intention of creating a stronger, more vibrant home for contemporary dance in the greater New Haven area. The founders envisioned a non-profit organization that would create unique contemporary dance experiences in New Haven such as classes, workshops and community performance projects for people of all ages an abilities; after school programs for middle school age children; open studio showings and improvisation jams; and unique dance productions that inhabit traditional to non-traditional spaces. ECDC is currently led by Artistic Director, Kellie Ann Lynch and Programming Director, Lindsey Bauer.

ECDC has extensively performed throughout Connecticut and New England – from parking garages to theaters – and has been presented by the Mystic Aquarium, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Rhode Island College, Roger Williams University, Frazier Festival (Providence), Creative Arts Alliance of Baltimore, Artspace New Haven, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, and the Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking to name a few. ECDC has received state and local funding from The Connecticut Office of the Arts, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, The Arts Council of Greater New Haven and The City of New Haven’s Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism to support the creation of work and services the organization provides for the community.