About Dages Juvelier Keates

Dages is an artist currently based between New York and Stockholm. Since 2001, has performed for chameckilerner, David Gordon, Noemie Lafrance/Sens Productions, Company SoGoNo, Susan Osberg, and Aileen Passloff, among many others. For the last eight years, Dages has worked as a part of three collaborative teams: E/D, HAM, and Lydian Junction recently presented by venues including 3LD Art & Technology Center, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BRIC, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, Gibney Dance Center, Fourth Arts Block, JCC, Merkin Hall, Northside Festival, NYU, Parsons/The New School, Temple University, the [UN]Fair Art Show, and Women in Motion. Her projects have been reviewed in The Brooklyn Rail, Dance Enthusiast, Culturebot, and CHANCE magazine, and she has been an artist-in-residence at chashama, 3LD, The Watermill Center, Marble House Project, and most recently, The Stable, in Montreal. Her ongoing praxis with Alexis Steeves has been commissioned for L’Intrus at Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture in San Sebastian, Spain (2018), and by Callidus Guild for Salon Art and Design at the Park Avenue Armory (2018). Dages recently worked as an advisor for Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space (2018-2019) and Sacha Yanow’s Cherie Dre (Danspace Project, 2018) as well as performing in Amanda Palmer’s “Mr. Weinstein Will See You Now.”

Dages received her BA in Dance from Bard College and was awarded the Carter Towbin Prize for her contributions to the dance department. From 2003-2008 she immersed in Jewish studies in both NYC and Israel, subsidized by a Jeff Seidel Scholarship and two year long Drisha Arts Fellowships. She completed graduate work in gender and performance studies at NYU in 2014, where her work was supported by a SIFF Performance Thesis Grant, a Newington-Cropsey Foundation Fellowship, a Dean’s Scholarship, a Gallatin Scholarship, the Jewish Studies Fund, and an Emerging Jewish Artist Fellowship. Her MA thesis, "Foundations of the Flesh: Primitivity Reconsidered," was recognized by a Leo Bronstein Homage award “for outstanding interdisciplinary achievement in the arts.” She has recently taught at and participated in panels for Colgate University, New York University, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France) Parsons/The New School, the Newington-Cropsey Foundation, Temple University (Philadelphia, PA), as well as on a curatorial intensive at Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture (Spain). In 2018, Dages published “Radical Acts of Embodiment: Teachings and Practices of Katonah Yoga” with a reading at McNally Jackson in New York City.