We are so excited to host Second Skin for a fully improvised sound journey with dance on Saturday, October 23rd!

About the Artists

Alex Beckmann is a musician, producer, and sound meditation facilitator in NYC. He has done extensive touring as a drummer and makes electronic music under the moniker MMBLR. Synthesizing the healing arts, improvisation, and deep listening practices Alex hopes to use vibration as a means for creating positive change.

Eric Lichtenstein is a multi-disciplinary artist born and raised in New York City. He is a creator and facilitator, intent on actively building community at home and abroad. He believes that connection through creative expression has the capacity to heal and transform. Eric is a truth seeker and avid world traveler exploring ongoing conversations with nature and the human experience.

Allyssa Rivera (pronounced A-lee-sha) is a dance artist and dance/movement therapist raised in Puerto Rico and based in New York City for the past decade. Her passion lies in the exploration of the Body as a site for deep trauma work, healing, and transformation, as well as an ally in the expression and honoring of the complex stories we all hold within. Allyssa is a shadow dancer and an awe-seeker; she welcomes her Selves through the processes of intuitive dance/movement, play, and ritual theater.  Allyssa is also our wonderful Dance and Authentic Movement Therapist at Art Therapy Place.

About Second Skin

Second Skin is a creative inquiry into transformations in nature and death/rebirth cycles. Spontaneous, impulse-driven transmissions of sound and movement in conversation allow us to explore unknown depths. The space becomes a container to communicate the unspeakable. We invite the audience to witness both our ever-changing process and their own as we face the uncertainty and transformation of our worlds within and around us. The group is compromised of two talented musicians, Eric Lichtenstein and Alex Beckmann, and dancer, Allyssa Rivera Cabrero.