December: “Carolina Independent Film Collective” Monthly Meetup
Schedule
Tue, 02 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28213 | Charlotte, NC
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December 2025This panel explores the intersection of performance art and video installation, highlighting how artists use videography to extend the body, memory, and presence beyond the stage. Featuring Sarah Ingel, Dylan Gilbert, Megan Payne, and Toby Shearer, the conversation explores process, collaboration, and the evolving relationship between live performance and recorded media.
Dylan Gilbert is an American songwriter, producer, and performer from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a member of the Goodyear Arts Collective and a former member of genre-bending punk band HECTORINA. His compositions range from wild guitar-based art rock to experimental and avant-garde music.
Gilbert has been self-releasing music and DIY touring since 2005 — His 13th solo album WHEN DID EVERYTHING CHANGE? was released by Potluck Foundation in 2024. In addition to his own work, Gilbert has been a prolific collaborator. He has written original scores for film, theater, podcasts, video games, and live dance, including multiple projects with dancer/choreographer Sarah Ingel. In 2025 Gilbert launched the WAY OUT OPEN MIC, an experimental open mic for performers, hosted at Goodyear Arts the first Wednesday of every month.
Megan Payne is a dance artist, producer, and educator whose work has been presented nationally at festivals, universities, and performance venues, including the American Dance Festival’s Movies by Movers, NC Dance Festival, and Detroit Dance City Festival. From 2016-2023 she co-produced ladyfest CLT, an interdisciplinary festival spotlighting female and femme-identifying artists, and is a contributing member of the Goodyear Arts Collective. Megan teaches community dance classes at Open Door Studios and manages The Long Room, a performance and events space in Charlotte. She holds a BFA in Dance from Ohio University and an MFA from Hollins University in partnership with the American Dance Festival.
Toby Shearer is a multi-disciplinary creative with experience in video production & editing, photography, and digital storytelling. His previous work includes the documentary feature From the Back of the Line on undocumented immigration, dance films, music videos, and short form documentaries. Toby’s commercial career has spanned thirteen years, working with Charlotte Ballet, UNC Charlotte’s College of Arts + Architecture, Modern People design studio, Honeywell International, and many more. Toby’s career is a quest to experiment with emerging technologies to build digital & IRL communities, educate, explore, and captivate.
Sarah Ingel: Focusing on effort, endurance, repetition, and emotional virtuosity, their work explores contemporary mythologies, rituals, and collective experiences of emotional phenomena. Practicing world building and myth making from a queer, futurist + feminist perspective, Ingel uses experimental, art rock, sci-fi and DIY methodologies to craft environments where the choreographic, emotional, and theatrical can interact – engaging with empathy, vulnerability, criticality, and humanity while simultaneously playing with spectacle and stage technology.
Ingel graduated from UNCSA HS Contemporary Dance/Composition program, then received a BFA in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the American Dance Festival. She recently earned an MFA in Dance from UArts in Philadelphia, with summer semesters at the ICI-CCN in Montpellier, France. She taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UArts School of Dance and worked as an Artistic+Administrative Associate for the MFA under the leadership of Donna Faye Burchfield.
Free and open to the public.
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4237 Raleigh Street, Charlotte, NC, United States, North Carolina 28213Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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