SoloShow, the second work of a diptych. (See SOLO for more details on the diptych)

SoloShow, extends Hassabi's interest in the representations of the female body embedded within art history, pop culture, and the performance of daily life. Staging the movement between sensation and its display, the performer moves beyond rhythm, ideal postures, and coherence as hundreds of images are seamlessly, physically collaged. Playing to the audience on a public-address platform the work is concerned with what the mind already knows by way of images that are disrupted by physicality, a striving for limits, and extended durations.

Directed and Choreographed by Maria Hassabi
Performed alternately with Hristoula Harakas
Sound Design, James Lo
Lighting Design, Joe Levasseur with Maria Hassabi
Dramaturgy, Scott Lyall, Marcos Rosales
Set Design, Scott Lyall, Maria Hassabi
Company Manager, Meghan Finn

SHOWS

2010
- Kaaistudios, Brussels, Belgium as part of WoWmen! (March 19-20)
- Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part of TBA Festival 2010 (September)

2009
- PS122, NY / Co-presented with Performa 09. Premiere (Nov 12 - 15)

CREDITS

Solo and SoloShow are co-produced and presented by Performance Space 122, the French Institute Alliance Francaise (FIAF) as part of their Crossing the Line Festival, the 2009 Visual Art Performance Biennial, Performa 09, and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art as part of their TBA Festival. Solo and SoloShow have received funding from the National Performance Network Creation Fund, the Manhattan 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. Erme, France.

PRESS

"Staggering genius...like the British art duo Gilbert & George...Hassabi eliminated the distinction between artist and art."
OUTWITHMARY.COM, Mary Barone, November 19, 2009