À Quatre Mains

An improvised conversation between sound and dance.

Héloïse Garry is an artist working at the intersection of filmmaking, theater, and performance, exploring the aesthetics of totality across art forms. Her compositions and performances reflect a deep interest in cross-cultural and linguistic experimentation, and sonic storytelling. Her work has been presented at SXSW, NIME, ICMC, Splice, NYCEMF, ICAD, Audio Mostly, the Audio Engineering Society, and the Internet Archive. As a Yenching Scholar at Peking University, she researched the politics of independent Chinese cinema and the role of music in the films of Jia Zhangke. An artist-in-residence at Gray Area, the Mozilla Foundation in San Francisco, and the Xu Bing Space Art Residency Program, she has collaborated with IRCAM and the Columbia Computer Music Center, and explored the sonification of the universe under the mentorship of physicist Brian Greene. In September 2024, she joined Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), where she occasionally appears in papal form. Héloïse holds bachelor’s degrees in Filmmaking, Economics, and Philosophy from Columbia University, Sciences Po, and Sorbonne University.

Maxine Carlisle is a dancer from Sydney, Australia, in the first year of her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford. In 2016, she completed her pre-professional work at Sydney Dance Company. Maxine developed an interdisciplinary freelance career in dance artistry, and co-founded the dance collective SXAE with Eliza Cooper, Mitchell Christie, Allie Graham and Strickland Young. She owes her fascination for physical listening to artist Thomas Bradley, who is strongly influenced by Japanese “butoh”. Concurrent to her dance career, in 2022, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours, 1st Class) from the University of Sydney. 

In 2025, Maxine completed a Masters in English from New York University and continues to work diligently with NYU Associate Professor Dr. Wendy Lee and the Consent Lab in NYC. Currently, Maxine is working on the gap between language and movement, figuring it as a silence and the place where she finds her love of dance.