5:30 pm.
Marissa Perel, (do not) despair solo

CO-PRESENTED BY ABRONS ARTS CENTER & GIBNEY DANCE

WORLD PREMIERE

Saturday, January 13, 8:30pm
Sunday, January 14, 5:30pm
Monday, January 15, 10:00pm
Tuesday, January 16, 7:00pm

Run Time: 60 minutes
ASL interpretation and audio description provided for all performances

Abrons Arts Center, Underground Theater, 466 Grand Street, Manhattan
Single Tickets $25 / Abrons Festival Pass $20

Limited wheelchair accessible seating available.

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A performance-lecture by Marissa Perel, (do not) despair solotraces choreography, disability, queerness and intimacy through language, power and consent. Exploring the politics of care and pity, Perel reconfigures the performer-audience relationship to create a space for a body in pain. Quoting texts by Gregg Bordowitz, Maggie Nelson, Corrine Fitzpatrick and others, Perel searches for a means of translation between the felt experience of pain and the way it can or cannot be communicated to the world. Futility, loss, and the incomprehensible are integral to the journey from one’s body to another.

(do not) despair solo was made in part during the BAX Artist-In-Residence program with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. It was also developed at Konstfack, the College for Art and Design, Stockholm, Sweden, where Perel was invited as a guest artist by Emily Roysdon. Additional residency support and ASL interpretation provided by Gibney Dance