Sheshi is a duet between choreographer and interdisciplinary artist lily gold and her mother, with sound support from artist dani derks. Tuning to ancestral resilience and reviving parts lost to assimilation, their scores are transparent with tensions and explore family stories they’ve been told, as well as ones their bodies have begun to tell. While Sheshi rekindles reverence for elders it also embraces back-handed humor, working to coax exiled-aggression into balance. Leaning into play to tether the immensity of looking at ancestral trauma through a multi-generational lens, lily and Sheri offer their intimacies for resonance.
This will be Sheshi's first public in-progress showing, join us!
lily gold (she/they) is a white, queer, chronically ill, fourth-generation New Yorker of the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora.
As a choreographer, artist, performer, organizer, and witch, lily is accountable to larger liberatory movements and is constantly investigating what disruption looks like inside creative practice. Working with attention to the deep interconnectedness of humans, lily’s work aims to fortify and uplift the how the power of collectivity does not necessitate likeness. lily turns to interoceptive curiosity to attune the forces of nature and the more than living, and their practices straddle the limits of spiritual and material realms.
lily’s interdisciplinary work has been presented by Danspace Project, First Street Gallery, MoMA/Judson Memorial Church, and Movement Research, among others. lily has been an artist in residence at Movement Research, AUNTS, ZIL Cultural Center, Snug Harbor, BAX, Bennington College, CEC ArtsLink and Lower Manhattan Cultural Center. As a dancer, lily has collaborated with Andrea Geyer, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, Tere O’Connor, Vicky Shick, and Walter Dundervill, among others.
lily is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and facilitator, following an unfolding path of somatic healing through an abolitionist and anti-oppression framework. Since 2019, lily lives and works with the occupied lands of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy in Walton, NY, and remains in relationship with their community and performance home in NYC.