MORIAH ELLA-GABRIEL MASON
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go places and do things:
TACTILE DANCES

What is dance outside of the visual medium?  
In go places and do things: tactile dances audiences are presented with a menu of 4 scores. Each score is performed by 4 movers who lead one, blind-folded audience member through a tactile experience - incorporating elements of contact improvisation, shiatsu, and using props, sound scores, and other non-sight-based elements. Responsive to the physical needs and reactions of each performer and audience member each tactile dance is a unique, co-created experience.

Choreographed by Moriah Ella Mason in collaboration with the performers
Performed by Moriah Ella Mason, Laura Stokes, Riva Strauss, and Elizabeth Wack

go places and do things: tactile dances was presented at several venues in PIttsburgh, PA during the summer of 2014 including:
BOOM concepts, Rhinestone Steel Queer Arts Festival at Irma Freeman Center, and the Performance Art Festival at Bunker Projects

Are you a bodyworker, dancer, or musician interested in collaborating on future iterations of this work? Please contact me.


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  • Home
  • ART WORKS
    • So I Think You've Had the Time of Your Life
    • CANAL or Time is a Conveyor Belt and the Only Winners Are These Basking Turtles
    • A Temporary Seal
    • Queer, Jewish
    • Escape Velocity
    • Soft Block
    • The Protein Hustle
    • sex werque
    • Frayed Harmonies
    • Funny, She Doesn't Look Jewish
    • Eser Hamakot / Ten Plagues
    • Diasporate
    • Detritus, Vestige, and Dross
    • Contained
    • Go Places and Do Things: Tactile Dances
    • Love. . . And a Little Torture
    • Of Snails and Lips
    • Crumbs Are Not An Instant's Act
    • The Groundwater Up Project
  • Collaborations & Performances
  • TEACHING
  • Writing
  • CONTACT / CV