“SHOW develops as an in inquiry between audience and performer, performance space and emotional space. The audience members, who have become unwitting participants in the event, can barely take their eyes off the dancers — except when looking at each other. SHOW is a brilliant, often erotically charged evening-length piece performed by two dynamic, brave dancers unafraid to take risks, involving the audience in unique and, at times, demanding ways.”
THIS WEEK IN NEW YORK, Mark Rifkin, November 5, 2011

SHOW casts a focus on the elements of live performance in a bid to make them plastic and palpable. At the core of its exploration is a paradoxical condition that must be negotiated and resolved by any live work: the attempt to be present in a moment of expression, while existing in an awareness caught by a set of definitive frames. The relationship between the audience and the performers, their mutually assigned spaces, movement and roles, are implicated in the work as they share the changing sequence of what unfolds. It is within the time and space of this particular shared experience–its shifting bodies and facial gestures, its subtle fluxes and halted poses–that a truly plastic theater of contemporary live performance emerges.

Direction and Choreography: Maria Hassabi
Performers: Hristoula Harakas, Maria Hassabi
Sound Design: Alex Waterman
Lighting and Set Design: Maria Hassabi, Joe Levasseur, Scott Lyall
Styling: threeASFOUR
Dramaturgy: Scott Lyall, Marcos Rosales
Production Consultant and Administrator: Meghan Finn