My Body Your Eyes - Philadelphia Fringe Festival

My Body Your Eyes

Laura D'Amico, M Nield, MahataMmoho Collective & Nancy Hughes

Dance, Music

My Body Your Eyes is a multi-choreographer dance performance bringing together ritual, resistance, personal narrative, and myth. Created by MahataMmoho Collective, M Neild, Laura D’Amico, and Nancy Hughes, the works in this program trace humanness through movement, voice, image, and embodiment.
Nancy Hughes’ if she is the storm, is also the shelter, with M Neild, is inspired by the care, chaos, and transformation found in the family and friend relationships of Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo. The piece features the recurring image of a two-headed monster that is an echo between past and future selves into the constant present body.
M Neild’s Home:Body is a two-part solo rooted in a transformative Reiki experience. It follows the arc from dissociation and trauma toward presence and regulation, using original music and breath-driven movement to chart the path home to the self.
Laura D’Amico’s solo was developed during a Fulbright Fellowship in Italy and examines the paradox of proto-Christian women, pagan ritual, and the erotic in sacred art and history. Dancing nude inside a transparent five-sided box, D’Amico invokes ancient Roman questions about the sacred and the objectified female form while asking what remains of our spiritual inheritance today.
MahataMmoho Collective, founded by Megan A. Rakeepile in Buffalo, NY, contributes a unity-focused piece aligned with their mission to center collaboration, accessibility, and artistic empowerment across difference.
Together, the works in Your Eyes My Body ask how we move with what we inherit, how we find liberation, and how the body holds memory, mystery and knowing.

Details

Run Time: 60 mins

Ticket Price: $15

PWYC Options $5+

Venue: Old First Reformed Church

Dates: September 28, 2025

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September 28, 2025 5.00pm

151 N 4th Street

General Admission: $15

PWYC Options

About the Artist

Nancy Hughes
Nancy Hughes is a Buffalo-based choreographer whose work has been presented across the U.S., including in Colorado, Texas, and Washington. She has choreographed for plays and musicals such as The Full Monty and Stupid $%&! Bird, and received grants from NYS DanceForce, NYSCA, and Arts Services Inc. In 2023, she created a dance piece for movers with disabilities, commissioned by the Self-Advocacy Association of NYS and funded by the Cullen Foundation, premiering at Ujima Theater.
Michaela "M" Neild
MICHAELA "M" NEILD (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, dance educator, movement coach, and nonprofit professional based in Buffalo, NY. As an independent artist, M is engaged with improvisation and multidisciplinary investigation, community-building, seeking liberation through storytelling, and the sharing of space.
Laura D’Amico
Laura D’Amico is a multi-hyphenate performance artist with a formal background in STEM and agriculture. She is a 2023–2024 Fulbright Scholar, where she trained with the Anfibia Artist Program in Bologna, Italy, under the direction of Mattia Gandini, Martina La Ragione, and Carlo Massari.
MahataMmoho Collective
Founded by Megan A. Rakeepile, MahataMmoho Collective is a group that aims to bring together artists from different backgrounds to create unity-focused works. Established in August 2015 in Buffalo, NY, their goal is to show that collaboration can lead to learning and growth.

Laura D'Amicochoreographer/performerlauradamico@live.com
M NeildChoreographer/Performermichcneild@gmail.com
Nancy Florene HughesChoreographer/Performernfhughes@gmail.com
MahataMmohoChoreographermahatammohocollective@gmail.com

Accessibility & Content Considerations

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This event is appropriate for ages 21+ Only

Nudity

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require masks to be worn