Mercedes Searer is a New York City–based movement artist, choreographer, and trainer.

​Her artistic and teaching practices center on identity and the ways we mistake it for something fixed. She works from the belief that our bodies are always performing—biologically, socially, and culturally. In other words, our beliefs and stories take root in the nervous system and shape how we move through the world. To shift them, we must interrupt the loop.

Mercedes’s work interrogates assumptions of identity and embodiment. Drawing on the dramaturgy of the corporeal body, she explores how we are limited by our habitual movements and the stories we unconsciously perform. By donning and unworking these forms, she opens space for transformation, believing that radical inhabitation of the body has the power to spark social change.

Her practice insists: our limited stories create limited bodies. Through repetition, what we embody becomes our reality. But by practicing new possibilities—through movement, imagination, and presence—we expand our choices.
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"In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us."
​Moshe Feldenkrais