Bodies of Water - Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Bodies of Water

The Naked Stark

Art for Young Audiences, Dance, Immersive & Interactive Experience

Meet The Naked Stark at Fairmount Water Works! Our 10th annual community gathering offers a glimpse into our process and sneak peek into our 2026 production. Dive into an exploration of water, time and space celebrating the site’s architecture, and the mosaic of memories in the former Kelly Pool.

Bodies of Water co-creators, Amalia Colón-Nava, Chloe Marie, Harlee Trautman, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Marcie Mamura, and Meredith Stapleton, navigate the interplay of each performers’ relationship to water. We are at once streams flowing together and humans making space for each other, carrying and being carried along, discovering the power and possibilities that emerge when we come together.

This piece is an offering to drift, pause, and plunge into a shared inquiry of place and process; a phase in an ever evolving project. We invite you to enter the current of unfolding together, between the seen and unseen, and the water nearby.

Join us for a performance and reception as we discover mutual buoyancy, find each other in the vastness, dive through turbulence, and surface together.

This event is for all ages - meet us at the river!

Details

Run Time: 120 mins

Ticket Price: FREE

PWYC Options $0+

Venue: Fairmount Water Works
Dates: September 27, 2025

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September 27, 2025 1.00pm

640 Waterworks Drive

General Admission: FREE

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About the Artist

The Naked Stark is a West Philly-based dance company that crafts up-close, immersive dances for intergenerational audiences. The company’s collaborative structure engages multidisciplinary artists inspiring imaginations toward possibilities of change, connections, and a process of deep research. Jonathan Stein of thINKingDANCE writes, "[The Naked Stark] challenges us to see the dynamics of power shaped by historic narrative, social conventions, and our own unselfconscious playfulness.”

The Naked Stark has created site-responsive dance works across Philadelphia, including: Falling Up (2023), Icebox Project Space; the time in between (2021), a film and installation at the Arts League; Actor and The Leading Lady (2019), Clark Park; Taking Up Space (2015) and more, with support from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, University City District, Fringe Arts, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and ongoing support from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. More info at thenakedstark.com and on Instagram.

For more than 200 years, the Fairmount Water Works has told the story of our connection with water. It operated as a pumping station from 1815 to 1909, an aquarium from 1911 to 1962, as the Kelly Natatorium until 1972, and today serves as Philadelphia Water Department's public education destination, housing the award-winning Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center featuring landmark exhibitions and serving as a living laboratory for urban watershed sustainability. Located on the Schuylkill River at 640 Waterworks Drive, off scenic Kelly Drive in Philadelphia, the FWW is recognized as The Delaware River Basin’s Official Watershed Education Center and Gateway Center for the Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area. For more information, visit Fairmountwaterworks.org and @Fairmountww on social.

Amalia Colón-NavaCreator / Performeracolonnava95@gmail.com
Chloe MarieCreator / Performerchloemnp@gmail.com
Harlee TrautmanCreator / Performerharleetrautman@gmail.com
Katherine Kiefer StarkCreator / Performerkkstark@gmail.com
Marcie MamuraCreator / Performermarciemamura@gmail.com
Meredith StapletonCreator / Performerstapleton.meredith@gmail.com
Aubrey DonischTNS Managing Coordinatorinfo.thenakedstark@gmail.com

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for all ages

Audience Interaction

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn