Dages (she/they) is a New York-based teacher, writer, and artist working with and through the body's materiality as a somatic space for holding paradox. Their work explores performative and poetic methodologies in researching cartographies of somatic, psychoanalytic, and nonhuman knowledges. Since 2021, Keates has been thickly entangled with dramaturgy for Faye Driscoll’s projects, including Weathering (2023) and Oceanic Feeling (2024).