Site-Specific Performance

All pieces written, designed and performed by Zibby Jahns and Ruth Mascelli

 
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Fifty Sade’s of Gray

Still from a performance at the Alvar Branch of the New Orleans Public Library in 2016. We also performed this piece at Hell & Gone Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and the Scott Edwards Gallery in New Orleans. This piece was about connection through internet culture and the appropriation of BDSM in mainstream apparel. The two characters have abstract notions of cultural theory and yet are too alienated by social expectations to be able to communicate.


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The Inner Lives of Nita and Zita

We performed this piece at the New Orleans Wax Museum in 2014. We examined the dual lives of infamous 1920's Jewish Hungarian immigrants to New Orleans. They were renowned for their glamorous cabaret performances, but secretly turned their home into a life's work of folk art painting and installation, only uncovered years after their death.

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Images of Rapture Creep Into Me Slowly

The performance piece was written, performed, and designed by myself with Ruth Mascelli as part of the Disappearing Acts performance series. We explored notions of legitimacy and gender within dance and performance as it pertains to art, specifically centered around stage fright. The movement, visuals, and dialogue in my collaborative performance with Ruth spark conversation about human connection and history within the places we perform: here, on the steps of the New Orleans Museum of Art.


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