Thirsting for Salt, Grüntaler 9, Berlin.
A performative dinner of six meals, in memory of six individuals. With Kirsten Brandt and Janet Hayatshahi.
"Cooking is a universal, shared tradition, built into our families and the joy of everyday life. So what happens to these traditions when we leave home? What if we never find out exactly how Grandma folds and seals her empanadas, or learn Dad’s trick for keeping the roast from drying out? Even with technology’s infinite opportunities to share knowledge, there’s no replacement for smell, taste and muscle memory… yet. The experimental performance and installation Thirsting for Salt questions all this and more, in what will undoubtedly be a piece many in Berlin will relate to."
--Exberliner Magazine, 2016
"Cooking is a universal, shared tradition, built into our families and the joy of everyday life. So what happens to these traditions when we leave home? What if we never find out exactly how Grandma folds and seals her empanadas, or learn Dad’s trick for keeping the roast from drying out? Even with technology’s infinite opportunities to share knowledge, there’s no replacement for smell, taste and muscle memory… yet. The experimental performance and installation Thirsting for Salt questions all this and more, in what will undoubtedly be a piece many in Berlin will relate to."
--Exberliner Magazine, 2016
The Rest is Silence. Mandell Weiss Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD. 2012.
Semi-improvised, ensemble-based dance theatre piece about Shakespearean heroines meeting after death. Evening-length site-specific piece set in La Jolla Playhouse’s Weiss Theatre. Chor. Janet Hayatshahi
Mouth at Each End. UCSD Dance Theatre, 2011.
Collectively created dance theatre meditation on the afterlife of the 1950s housewife ideal. Chor. Janet Hayatshahi
The Machine Stops, UCSD 2011.
Workshop performance based on quarter-long research seminar led by Tara Knight. This course/production was made possible by a grant from UCSD's Humanities Innovation Grant. Dir. Lily Kelting
New Directions. UCSD Dance Theatre. 2010.
Feminist re-imagining of the Iphigenia myth combined with Freud’s Dora. Chor. Janet Hatayshahi
