survivor

Overview

Powered entirely by one woman’s sweaty desperation, survivor is a solo performance art piece about dance marathons, reality TV, and the spectacle of human endurance. The first hundred hours are the hardest. This is a free gallery-style performance art piece, come and go as you please during the hour. 

About the Artist

Skye Fort is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from New Mexico and currently in Philadelphia having spent time in Chicago and Baltimore in between. Her practice includes theatre, video, performance, installation, and general mess-making. Her most recent production To Bridge Ten Millennia premiered in January 2025 as part of The Exponential Festival. Her show Disaster Theater premiered at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn NY in 2024 before touring to Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia. Other directing credits include Twelfth Night (Assistant Director, Dir Yury Urnov, The Wilma, 2023), And Away We Stared (Trap Door Theatre, 2021) Strange As It Seems (Tricklock Theatre, 2019), and Childhood Beauty (Trap Door Theatre, 2019) Skyes video work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, and Collar Works Gallery in Troy NY. Her installations Queer. Futures. Past. and Could Have Been/Someone were both shown in Baltimore MD. Skye is a co-founder of CAROL Performance Group and a producer with Cannonball Festival. She holds a B.A. in acting from the University of New Mexico, and an M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Towson University.

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