Rituals of Care
Maria Hassabi: TOGETHER
In the performance TOGETHER, Maria Hassabi and dancer Oisín Monaghan propose a forceful choreographic meditation on methods of affecting and being affected by each other; on ways of living with and next to another.
Maria Hassabi, TOGETHER, 2019. Presentation at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 4 April 2019
Presentation at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 4 April 2019
Photo: Virginia Harold
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Free tickets available from 18:00 at the Gropius Bau ticket office (first come, first served)
- No late admission!
Past Dates
- Thursday, 23 January 2020
- 20:00—21:00
- Gropius Bau, Atrium (Ground floor)
- Free admission, limited capacity
- Friday, 24 January 2020
- 20:00—21:00
- Gropius Bau, Atrium (Ground floor)
- Free admission, limited capacity
Over the years Maria Hassabi has developed a distinct choreographic practice involved with the relation of the live body to the still image, utilising stillness and the velocity of deceleration as both technique and subject. TOGETHER is an duet between herself and dancer Oisín Monaghan in which the two evoke images of togetherness through minimal movements as a way of producing emotional states. Placed on an intimate platform in the middle of the atrium, the performance TOGETHER oscillates between dance and sculpture, as the bodies embrace and disentangle, always moving at the limits of perception, folding the surrounding space against the contours of the body.
Maria Hassabi is an artist and choreographer based in New York City and Athens. Her work has been presented widely, including Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018), documenta 14, Kassel (2017), MoMA, New York (2016), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015) and the 55th Venice Biennale (2013).