Grief Embodied - Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Grief Embodied

Our Lady of Situations

Immersive/Interactive Experience

Grief Embodied is a cathartic reckoning of performance art and abstract puppetry. A continuous non-narrative piece with no beginning or end, it unhesitatingly creates a dialogue for things we hardly know how to say. Five performers, each holding their own unique abstraction. Grief is formless, nothing at all, and something we can't quite qualify. Glimpsed only from behind branches, or through windows, light streaming through. Ricocheting around a sharp and unyielding atmosphere, seething above valleys of broken shards. Wandering unheralded among bottles of slow but incessant water droplets. Suspended on a tiny, inconsequential platform above an unforgiving, yawing crevasse.
Won’t you share your name with us?
Grief of losing someone loved,
grief from losing oneself,
the world's continuing grief,
the material grief of a lost and sentimental token,
grief of a remembered youth,
a grief that's hidden,
a grief long carried.
Scrawl your name.
Spend a moment with us.
Here, you may articulate, even if it’s for just a breath. Here, you may give your anger permission to cloud your thoughts and be your whole voice, if only for this moment. Here, you may lift up your broken bits and understand we see you. We are you. We are wholly, grief embodied.

Details

Run Time: 120 mins

Ticket Price: $15

Venue: PrismArts Philadelphia
Dates: September 6, 2024

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September 6, 2024 7.00pm

1021 Hamilton St

FL 2

General Admission: $15

About the Artist

Megan Hillary, founder of the performance group Our Lady of Situations, is a visual artist and theater director & designer currently specializing in site-specific installations. Also a ballet dancer and violinist, Megan continued training in both while earning her degrees in the studio arts and technical theater design. Traveling for the sake of these pursuits, positions ranged from a stint in Manhattan as technical director for Altered Stages to being the resident lighting designer for the East Hawaii Cultural Center, from working as a guest director within university theater departments to being a board member of the Ohio/Pennsylvania chapter of USITT. With installations up and down the east coast of the mainland, Megan now makes her home in Charlottesville as a visual artist, theater director and designer, a teacher of dance, choreography, and acting at local ballet studios and for area schools' mainstage productions, while occasionally appearing for puppetry workshops for organizations like the Boys & Girls Club and the Governor's School for Performing Arts. Planting interactive installations in local galleries and art festivals, Megan most recently performed “Grief Embodied”, the culmination of a residency at McGuffey Art Center, and installed “Do ut des: I give, so that you may give” at Flo(w)ralia: the Rivanna River Art Fest through Chroma Art Lab. Megan is currently developing an immersive piece of devised theater through a grant with the Lab in Performance Cultures & Embodied Creative Practices, a working group funded by University of Virginia's Institute for the Humanities and Global Culture.

Megan HillaryCreator
Performer
Claire CovingtonPerformer
Marty MoorePerformer
Joumana AltallalPerformer
Lena MalcolmPerformer

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This event is appropriate for ages 13+

Audience Interaction

Covid-19 Safety policy

This event does not require proof of vaccination to attend or masks to be worn