MARIA HASSABI - STAGED? (2016) - UNDRESSED
03 FEB 2019
STAGED? (2016) is a choreography that oscillates between dance and sculpture, subject and object, live body and still image. The audience surrounds four performers entangled in a tense and colorful pile. The performers form a sculptural mass that changes through the accumulation of their movements, creating a surreal theatrical intensity. At the Serralves Museum the "undressed” iteration is presented – an adaptation for public spaces represented solely by its performers and removed from all its theatrical elements.Maria Hassabi is an artist and choreographer. Her performances and installations are presented worldwide in theaters, museums, galleries, and public spaces. Hassabi received the 2016 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie” Award for PLASTIC; the 2015 Herb Alpert Award; 2012 President’s Award for Performing Arts from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship; 2009 Grants to Artists Award from Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Performers: Jessie Gold, Hristoula Harakas, Maria Hassabi, Oisín Monagahn Outfits: Victoria Bartlett
Image: Maria Hassabi, Staging (2017) — undressed. Installation view at Aarhus City Hall, Denmark, as part of Aarhus 2017. Photo © Thomas Poravas. Maria Hassabi Jessie Gold Hristoula Harakas Oisín Monaghan Maria Hassabi is an artist and choreographer. Her performances and installations are presented worldwide in theaters, museums, galleries, and public spaces including Centre Pompidou (Paris); K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-?Westfalen (Düsseldorf); documeta14 (Kassel); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); Museum of Modern Art (New York); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); The 55th Venice Biennale (Venice). Hassabi received the 2016 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie” Award for PLASTIC; the 2015 Herb Alpert Award; 2012 President’s Award for Performing Arts from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship; 2009 Grants to Artists Award from Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts. Jessie Gold is a dancer, choreographer, and artist living in New York. Gold has worked with choreographers Biba Bell, Caitlin Cook, Walter Dundervill, and Simone Forti. Gold's work has been shown at various theaters, museums and galleries including Danspace Project, New York; BFI (Bas Fisher Invitational), Miami; CANADA, New York; Movement Research at Judson Church, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Roulette, New York and the Lever House, New York, NY. Hristoula Harakas is a contemporary dance artist and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2006, New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) recipient who has had the pleasure of performing with many inspiring artists of the NY downtown dance scene. Her longtime and unique collaboration with Maria Hassabi dates back to 2002. Oisín Monaghan is a dance artist and visual performer/creator currently residing in NYC. He began studying movement at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. He has worked with Maria Hassabi, Tere O'Connor, Xavier Le Roy, Dora Garcia, Christopher Williams and John-Mark Owen.
Performers: Jessie Gold, Hristoula Harakas, Maria Hassabi, Oisín Monagahn Outfits: Victoria Bartlett
Image: Maria Hassabi, Staging (2017) — undressed. Installation view at Aarhus City Hall, Denmark, as part of Aarhus 2017. Photo © Thomas Poravas. Maria Hassabi Jessie Gold Hristoula Harakas Oisín Monaghan Maria Hassabi is an artist and choreographer. Her performances and installations are presented worldwide in theaters, museums, galleries, and public spaces including Centre Pompidou (Paris); K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-?Westfalen (Düsseldorf); documeta14 (Kassel); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); Museum of Modern Art (New York); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); The 55th Venice Biennale (Venice). Hassabi received the 2016 New York Dance and Performance "Bessie” Award for PLASTIC; the 2015 Herb Alpert Award; 2012 President’s Award for Performing Arts from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship; 2009 Grants to Artists Award from Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts. Jessie Gold is a dancer, choreographer, and artist living in New York. Gold has worked with choreographers Biba Bell, Caitlin Cook, Walter Dundervill, and Simone Forti. Gold's work has been shown at various theaters, museums and galleries including Danspace Project, New York; BFI (Bas Fisher Invitational), Miami; CANADA, New York; Movement Research at Judson Church, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Roulette, New York and the Lever House, New York, NY. Hristoula Harakas is a contemporary dance artist and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a 2006, New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) recipient who has had the pleasure of performing with many inspiring artists of the NY downtown dance scene. Her longtime and unique collaboration with Maria Hassabi dates back to 2002. Oisín Monaghan is a dance artist and visual performer/creator currently residing in NYC. He began studying movement at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. He has worked with Maria Hassabi, Tere O'Connor, Xavier Le Roy, Dora Garcia, Christopher Williams and John-Mark Owen.
