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Eryn Barnes is a dancer, actor, and writer working out of Pennsylvania, New York, and Washington D.C. They studied Linguistics and Film & Media Studies at the College of William and Mary, and have performed with theater and dance companies on both coasts including; Academy of Villains, the Classical Theater of Harlem, Pilobolus, DanceArtTheater, and the Twenty Sided Tavern.
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Dancer/Choreographer
Atlas INTERSECTIONS Dance Festival (NACHMO)
INTERSECTIONS is about presenting excellent art that inspires a connected community, engages artists and audiences alike, and creates a vibrant neighborhood, city, and world. The Atlas Intersections Festival presents artists that look to explore the ideas and issues of our time through their work.
Dancer/Choreographer
Atlas INTERSECTIONS Dance Festival (NACHMO)
This formal performance takes place in part of the Atlas Performing Arts Intersections Festival. Local adjudicators will choose a select number of NACHMO DC pieces presented at the hub’s informal showing in late January to proceed on to perform for a night of Intersections Festival lineup.
Performer
The Twenty Sided Tavern
Eryn was a part of the TST development team in 2020 and was part of the 2021 cast during the debut performances at the Asylum. They then played the Rogue/Trickster at the 2022 run at the Pittsburg CLO, as well as the holiday run on Broadway in Chicago at the Chicago Playhouse.
Dancer/Choreographer
Do You Queer What I Queer?
A duet about "gay panic" - seeing someone, thinking they’re cute and wanting to talk to them, but being unsure if they feel the same way. The inherent tension in Sapphic relationships where you can’t always tell if it’s romantic, friendly, sexual, or some combination of all of the above. Starting a queer relationship within a society and system that isn’t built for you is always nerve-racking, whether you’re just starting to explore your queerness or have been out for decades.
Dancer/Choreographer
Out Of Darkness
Borne Dance Company is a team of collaborating artists who focus on mental health and eating disorder awareness as well as the idea of “recovery through art”. Eryn was honored to perform with them in their 2022 showcase, performing their piece Be Kind to My Mind and Body.
Actor
As I Was Not As I Am
AS I WAS NOT AS I AM, directed by Hannah Postlewait is a hip, contemporary play about queer roommates, headaches, clubbing, upstairs neighbors, arson, and washing machines that follows the story of twenty-something Laurel who is sick. Her roommates want her to get better, but how do you help someone who can't afford health care? Does it involve setting a car on fire? Performed as part of the New American Voice Series. Eryn played Laurel.
Dancer
Transformations
DanceArtTheater produced its 4th Annual Transformations Concert, a compilation of dances presented by different choreographers, converging to share dance while enriching the audience’s experience. Featured artists and companies included:
3c Dance Collective, Maggie Waller, Greensboro Ballet, Helping Hearts Dance, FireHouse, Raeanna Grey, Chloe Conway, Ballet Embody, and Michele Murgia.
Dancer
Pilobolus
"As has been true for the company’s entire 50-year history, no description of a Pilobolus performance can do it justice. You can’t quantify their love of movement, experimentation and spiritual harmony." - The Hartford Courant
Dancer
Transmute: An Awakening
This is a dance film created for the song An Awakening by Angelica Olstad as a part of her visual EP, Transmute. Eryn portrays a version of media and the way it twists and warps the truth.
Actor
A Christmas Carol in Harlem
A Christmas Carol in Harlem places Ebenezer Scrooge as a real estate mogul who has made his fortune at the expense of others. This family-friendly production was directed by Carl Cofield and included original and classic holiday carols tinged with gospel, hip-hop, pop and R&B influences to celebrate the spirit of the season the Harlem way. Eryn played the Ghost of Christmas Past.
Actor
For Colored Girls...When the Rainbow is Enuf
This Award-winning, Broadway choreopoem captures "the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women." Eryn played the Lady in Yellow.
Actor
Conspiracy Cruise
First the Macarena, then MKULTRA.
The partly real story of a cruise ship vacation for conspiracy theorists that takes a turn for the surreal when their most outlandish theories come true on board. Eryn played Jo-Ellen.
Actor
Rideshade
On the way to brunch, a young mixed Black woman encounters an oblivious white woman and her racial insensitivities during a rideshare. Eryn played Nyemah.