My work accesses the heightened frame and ephemeral container of performance to experiment with alternate ways of being in the world. I manipulate physical looping, emergent text constructions, and stuttering gestures to access alternate possibilities for language, identity, and time. Performance making allows me to dream and actualize future blueprints in the present. I understand choreography as a set of constructed ecosystems, wherein the social order is highly prescribed and everybody plays a role. These roles however can be fucked with and slippages and refusals can occur.
Selected choreography below:
Intimacy for the Apocalypse
Judson Memorial Church New York, NY May 2024
Performed by Emily Barasch, Miya Shaffer, Wesleigh Gates
Hyster
Human Resources LA August 2023
Choreographed and Performed by Emily Barasch
How to Continue (Together)?
Film Installation Premiered in Lisbon, Portugal July 2020
Live Zoom Performance Premiered April 2021
Performed by: Emily Barasch, Miya Shaffer, Sanchita Sharma
Hysterical Realness
Hysterical Realness
Hysterical Realness
Hysterical Realness
Hysterical Realness
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles 2019
Halle 2, Kassel, Germany 2018
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams
Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams
Champagne Wishes & Caviar Dreams
Commissioned for the Undergraduate Summer Performance at Sozo Visions-in-Motion, 2018
Performed by: Therese Nübling, Rosalie Knuby, Zaneta Kêsik, Daniel Michalek, Marah Haj
Eggjoy
Durational three channel video with live “symptom score” performed by Emily Barasch
Performed June 2019 at UCLA Gloria Kaufman Hall
Eggjoy 2019
Eggjoy 2019
Eggjoy 2019
Eggjoy 2019
How to put your Uterus Back in Place
Premiered Halle 2 Kassel, Germany 2017