VANESSA ANSPAUGH’S "mourning after mornings" Trailer

NOV 10-12, 2022 AT 7:30 PM
New York Live Arts’ (Live Arts) Live Feed creative residency and commissioning program presents the world premiere of mourning after mornings, the newest creation by choreographer and performance based artist Vanessa Anspaugh. Inspired by early and contemporary death and grieving rituals, three archetypal female outcasts (facing their own aging bodies) tell an ancient story that is also the present. Narrative and time is constructed and deconstructed in cyclical reverie. mourning after mornings will be presented in the New York Live Arts Theater (219 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011) on Thursday, November 10th, Friday, November 11th, and Saturday, November 12th, 2022 at 7:30pm. There will be a Stay Late Conversation following the performance on Friday, November 11th, moderated by Shoshoana Currier, Director of Bates Dance Festival. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased at NewYorkLiveArts.org or 212-691-6500, on sale now.
mourning after mornings wants to wake-up. Over the last year, Anspaugh has made four new works, all under the subject of deaths that come too soon: Funerals for the Ocean, Early Mournings, Late Mournings, and now mourning after mornings. In Anspaugh’s newest full-evening length work, the seasoned cast of performers (and younger ghosts) explore communal loss and mourning, and reclaiming wildness, as they attend to the devastating, absurd, and sacred ways we come to care for bodies and ritualize endings. The work was made in collaboration with Anna Azrieli, Rebecca Serrell-Cyr, maura nguyễn donohue, along with composer Leslie Alison, and lighting designer Kathy Couch. Present and past collaborators include: maura nguyễn donohue, Anna Azrieli, Rebecca Serrell-Cyr, Laura Osterhaus Rosenstone, Jo Warren, C Antho