World Premiere of Maria Hassabi's 'SOLO' at Performance Space 122

The World Premiere of Maria Hassabi's 'Solo' will play at the Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue. 'Solo' is the first presentation of Maria Hassabi's diptych of two autonomous evening-long boundary-blurring solos. The performer moves from solitary contemplation in Solo, to a devotion to 'show-culture' in SoloShow. Seamlessly weaving dance and installation, Hassabi continues her rigorous exploration of representations of the body - embedded within art history, pop culture, and the performance of daily life - dissolving them into the physicality of contemporary dance.

In Solo, the work centers on a Persian area carpet, the performer's movement an investigation of familiar, often reductive representations of the body. The carpet becomes, in turn, a prop object, an outer skin, and architecture. These shifts describe the negotiation of desire in and of a dancing figure, as the desire becomes as complex and interwoven as the patterns in the carpet.

PRESS PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tuesday, September 29 at 7:30pm
Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30pm
Thursday, Oct 1 at 7:30pm

Maria Hassabi is a director/choreographer/performer. Her work employs extreme physicality and aesthetic precision, creating landscapes filled with iconic images that put forth-then push beyond-their initial connotations. Hassabi's work lives within the juncture of dance, installation and performance. Hassabi's work has been presented at venues such as PS122, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Joyce Theater, and Ballroom Marfa. Internationally, she has been featured at ImpulsTanz Vienna, In-Presentable Festival Madrid, TSEH-Springdance/Dialogue Moscow, Musée Géo Charles in Grenoble, France, The Biennale of Young Artists of Europe, in Sarajevo-Herzegovina and European festivals in Cyprus, Greece and Portugal. Hassabi was born in Cyprus and received a BFA in 1994 from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2009 Grants to Artists Award.

For more information please phone 212 944 9444 or email tommy@kornbergpr.com to reserve tickets.

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