Cathartic reckoning of performance art and abstract puppetry. A continuous non-narrative, a dialogue for things we hardly know how to say. Ricocheting around an unyielding space, seething above broken shards, wandering unheralded, or suspended on an inconsequential platform. Grief of losing oneself, grief of remembered youth, grief hidden, grief long carried. Here, you may speak, even if it’s for just a breath; give your rage your whole voice. Lift up your broken bits. We see you.
Grief Embodied is five performers behind five pedestals, each holding their own unique environment built for a specific kind of grief: Hidden Grief, Necessary Grief, Enraged Grief, Unnamed Grief, Abrupt and Unwanted Grief.
Grief, whether we wish it or not, supersedes all of life's considerations, even aforementioned unfathomable ones. Grief Embodied attempts to wrestle with that concept, the exploration of this soft, delicate, sometimes even romanticized state of being that unhesitatingly destroys everything in its path and paints the world perpetually grey. The world might very well be on fire, but when your chest is heavy with heartbreak and you have trouble breathing for the crying, the fire takes a backseat despite its incessant clamoring, and one's missed chances keep you awake in its place.
September 6, 2024 6.00pm, General Admission: $15
They are also a part of Rochester FringeArts Festival