HORSES & FOXES Performance
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7:00 - 8:00pm Performance
8:00 - 8:30pm Discussion with Anneliese Martinez
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
HORSES & FOXES is a 40-minute immersive performance exploring matriarchal agency and transformation, performed live by three artists, three women.
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh (Sound Direction, Performer)
Veronica Santiago Moniello (Movement Direction, Performer)
Heidi Wiren Kébé (Art Direction, Performer)
Inspired by the mythology of horses and foxes—symbols of strength, cunning, and control—the piece interrogates how patriarchal societies frame women as both powerful and perilous.
Set in Studio A at Pittsburgh’s WQED, HORSES & FOXES positions the audience in the round, using a dance cipher as a site of engagement. Through choreographed bodies, objects and live sound processing, the piece examines power thresholds: when it is given, how it is wielded, and when it fractures.
Drawing from Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Maggie Nelson, and bell hooks, HORSES & FOXES invites audiences to reflect on imposed roles, self-possession, and liberation through movement, sculpture, and sound.
This project has been sponsored and supported by the Tomayko Foundation and The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry FRFF Grant.
“In this project, we ask:
When power is given, how to wield it;
When power is exercised,
what comes from it;
When power is feminine, who provokes it;
When power is a threshold,
where does it break and
how does one heal to be re-empowered
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