Karen Sherman

Dancers are expected to be seen and sensual, to feel and reveal everything to us. But stagehands, who make dances possible, are expected to disappear, to become no one. When you work this way, you risk living this way. Soft Goods, created and performed by stage technicians (some of whom are also dancers), uses choreography, manual labor, scripted and improvised text, the theatricality and choreography of backstage, and the performance space itself to look at work, loss, aliveness, death, disappearance, and occupational self-obliteration.