A Response to Rashid Johnson, Stage, by TeeDee Simons
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September 26, 2026 12:00 PM
Performance artist, choreographer, and producer TeeDee Simons’s response to Rashid Johnson’s Stage, 2026, is a duet that explores the vesica piscis motif—a symbol dating back to Byzantine iconography that often appears in Rashid Johnson’s work. This performance finds inspiration in the symbol as a source for movement-making. The choreography continually returns the two dancers to their inhabited circles, each in conversation with the other. By exploring the spatial possibilities within the geometry of the intersecting shapes, a game emerges between the dancers as they inhabit the liminal space between their bodies and the geometry of the vesica piscis.
Performance artist, choreographer, and producer TeeDee Simons’s response to Rashid Johnson’s Stage, 2026, is a duet that explores the vesica piscis motif—a symbol dating back to Byzantine iconography that often appears in Rashid Johnson’s work. This performance finds inspiration in the symbol as a source for movement-making. The choreography continually returns the two dancers to their inhabited circles, each in conversation with the other. By exploring the spatial possibilities within the geometry of the intersecting shapes, a game emerges between the dancers as they inhabit the liminal space between their bodies and the geometry of the vesica piscis.
