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bones fragile bones fractured (2024)

Photos by Drew Lewis, Lua Borges, and Rachel Fernandez
 

DePaul Art Museum  |  July 27 & 28th, 2024

Self-produced 60-minute work in collaboration with Milo Sachse-Hofheimer. Expanded from our first iteration of bones fragile (March 2024).

Thanks to Eli Schmitt, DPAM, Lua Borges, Sophie Allen, and the Old Town School of Folk Music for support.

bones fragile bones fractured is an hour-long performance work using movement and live vocal looping to explore themes of care, lineage, and physical memory. We consider objects as support, probing what it means to tend to someone else or one's own body. Throughout the course of this piece, we build and undo our visual environment of cords, bubble wrap, mics, a loop pedal, and gauze. Our layered vocalizations interspersed with live and recorded text become the sonic landscape through which we interact. Microphones and cords attach to our bodies (and the body of the space) like extra organs; at one point we pass our heart—a pedal—between us. All the while our bones remain delicate, as if wrapped in styrofoam and labeled, handle with care.

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Graphic by Eli Schmitt

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Photo by Amaya Peña

bones fragile (2024)

Photos by Ricardo E. Adame

Steppenwolf 1700 Theatre  |  March 28-30th, 2024

 

30-minute work presented by the LookOut Series in a shared bill with Mitsu Salmon. The weekend was part of MERGE: Program One, curated by Helen Lee.

 

Created & Performed by Hannah Marcus and Milo Sachse-Hofheimer

Dramaturgical support by Sophie Allen

Lighting design & technical support by Matthew Chapman

Produced by Lauren Steinberg and Patrick Zakem

​Costuming courtesy of Fever Dream Vintage

 

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Since I was a child, I’ve been told that brittle bones run in my family, that my body is fragile and can easily be broken. I hug my grandma and notice how my body makes space around her; I could crush her in an instant, so I hug with the softness of a feather.​

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bones fragile is a gift for my living and deceased family members. Over the process of developing this work, Milo and I thought about our grandparents and their deteriorating bodies, our own experiences with injury, a tree wrapped in bubble wrap, and collisions beyond the physical that reverberate within us. â€‹â€‹

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Graphics courtesy of Steppenwolf Theatre; Headshot by William Frederking

 Blanket of my future skin (2022)

Photos by Ricardo E. Adame

Elastic Arts  |  November 4th, 2022

Presented through J e l l o Performance Series

Created and performed by Hannah Marcus
Images by Chang-Ching Su
Music: Excerpts from "My Life" and "My Lady" by Patricia Taxxon
Technical support by Sarah Stearn and Tuli Bera


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 Collapse of an Anchor (2021)