SoloShowMaria Hassabi
In Maria Hassabi’s “Solo Show” a multitude of familiar representations of the female body drawn from art history, pop culture, and everyday life are dissolved into the physicality of contemporary dance. As these images are manipulated in time and space, their initial meanings are disrupted. “SoloShow” is part of a new diptych work by Hassabi that began with “Solo,” presented by FIAF’s Crossing the Line Festival and Performance Space 122 in October 2009, and features contributions by many of Hassabi’s longtime collaborators, including sound design by James Lo, set design by visual artist Scott Lyall and Maria Hassabi, and lighting design by Joe Levasseur. “SoloShow” will be performed alternately by Maria Hassabi and dancer, Hristoula Harakas.
Maria Hassabi is a director/choreographer/performer. Over the past decade, Hassabi’s work has been presented in the US at venues such as PS122, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Joyce Theater, and Ballroom Marfa, in Texas. Internationally, she has been featured at festivals such as ImpulsTanz Vienna, In-Presentable Festival Madrid, TSEH-Springdance/Dialogue Moscow, Musée Géo Charles in Grenoble, France and European festivals in Sarajevo-Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece and Portugal. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2009 Grants to Artists Award.
“Solo” and “SoloShow” are co-produced and presented by the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, PS122, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), and Performa 09. “Solo” and “SoloShow” have received funding from the National Performance Network Creation Fund; the Manhattan Creation Fund Community Arts Fund supported by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the LMCC and The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston. The works were created, in part, while in in-Residence at Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, as well as a creative residency at Performing Arts Forum in St. Ermes, France.
Thursday through Saturday, Nov 12 – Nov. 14, 8pm
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 13 and 14, late shows at 10pm
Sunday, Nov. 15, 6pm
Tickets: $20 / $15 Students, Seniors, and Performa and FIAF Members at at www.ps122.org.
