Hassabi’s performance will act as an informal preview for the completed workSTAGED, which will premiere at The Kitchen in October 2016 as part of the French Institute Alliance Française’s Crossing the Line Festival. Hassabi presents a new composition for four dancers, Simon Courchel, Hristoula Harakas, Molly Lieber, and Oisín Monaghan. The artist imagines the work as four concurrent solo performances, rather than as a single, cohesive composition, and underscores this fragmented presentation by separating the dancers over numerous blocks of the park. Thus, viewers encounter each dancer in sequence, connecting their movements through imagination rather than vision. In this way, the performance is necessarily experienced in motion, as visitors move from one end of the park to the other. Takes place June 28-30.
New York City, NY; NYC