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she is not a comfortable thing
In this evening-length quartet, Anneke Hansen's choreography contemplates the realities of female identity. By exploring how these identities are dependent upon cultural context and the ways they can be perceived as performance both onstage and off we are forced to ask: What does an audience look to these young white women to represent, to speak of and for? What limitations of expression are placed upon the dancers by both the viewers' and their own assumptions? Which identities do they carry that are less immediately visible, and what might be artistically significant about revealing them and insisting on their multiplicity?
"she is not a comfortable thing" takes these concepts head on. The four dancers sweat, struggle, and concentrate. They are covetable and polite, thoughtful and bright. Things lurk beneath the surface, sometimes erupting and offering clarification or complication. These women stampede your vision with power and ferocious vulnerability, whip the space up with their movement, and wipe it down with their sweat-damp haunches before striding out on their own muscular legs.
*PARTIAL NUDITY*
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LocationThe Graham Studio Theater @ Westbeth (View)
55 Bethune Street, 11th floor
New York, NY 10002
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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