There There

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Screenshot by Julie Mayo

There, there

Premiered at Dixon Place, NYC (2014)
Performed at JACK, Brooklyn, NY (2014)

<fidget>space, Philadelphia, PA (2014)

Created in collaboration with and performed by Katie Dean, Stacy Grossfield, Mayo, Jillian Sweeney

This  work questions the knowability of the very world it creates through an invitation into dislocation. Engaging and exiting formal constructs, and de-familiarizing the recognizable, There, there assembles a palimpsest of perception through a foregrounding of the performer's performance personas and their work of staying present amidst their circumstances.