“Together has a simple title for a complicated question: how to be together? We will also ask: how to be together when everything is falling apart? The contact between the two bodies,  like a spark, occurs: cheek to cheek, head to head, forehead to forehead, then nose to nose and almost mouth to mouth, the infinite tenderness of this desert couple tries to calm the panic pre–apocalyptique”. 
Léa Poiré for MOUVEMENT magazine culturel indisciplinaire, May 17, 2019

Together is an intimate performative duet between dancer Oisín Monaghan and Maria Hassabi that takes place on a small white plinth. The work proposes a forceful choreographic meditation on methods of affecting and being affected by each other; on ways of living with and next to another as two bodies embrace and disentangle, always moving to the limits of perception, folding the surrounding space the contours of the body.

Performers: Maria Hassabi, Oisín Monaghan
Sound Design: Stavros Gasparatos
Outfits: Victoria Bartlett
Created with Hristoula Harakas
Management and Distribution: Something Great

SHOWS

2024
– Bozar – Center for Fine Arts (December 9, 10)

2022
– Ob/scene Festival, Seoul, South Korea (November 5,6)

2021
– LMCC | River to River Festival, NY, US (June 26, 27)

2020
– Gropius Bau | Berliner Festpiele, Berlin, Germany (January 23, 24)

2019
– Performa 19, New York, US (Nov 6-10)
– Buffalo | Grandipianure, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (June 2)
– MUDAM Luxembourg Museum, Luxembourg (May 18,19)
– Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (May 2)
– Premiere: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis (April 5,6)

CREDITS
TOGETHER (2019) was commissioned by the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, and supported by “Extended Life,” a program of the Lower Manhattan Council of the Arts. TOGETHER was developed through a residency at FLOOR, NYC.