Marissa Rae Niederhauser | These Tender Hooks

Takt A.I.R. Berlin is happy to present:
These Tender Hooks, .IN.THE.FLESH. // Performance b Marissa Rae Niederhauser (USA)

The hours drag in lovelorn days. Tender Hooks is a dance based installation that wanders the tedium of the lonely heart, the ache of the single body and the lengths we will go to in order to find love.

Dance, Insomnia, Occult Ritualism, Blues, 1950s Pop, Goddesses, Hags, Pinups, Transgressive Furniture, Citrus Fruit… may all make an appearance in one way or another.

Marissa Rae Niederhauser (USA) makes body based work in dance, film, performance and installation. She has a BFA in dance from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA (USA). Her live works have been presented at On the Boards, Seattle Art Museum, Velocity Dance Center, Henry Art Gallery, and Seattle University in Seattle, WA and at Judson Memorial Church, The Chocolate Factory and Ideas City Street Festival in NY, NY and at FECK:ART and Lucy Guerrin Inc in Melbourne, AU as well as K77 in Berlin, GE. Her films have screened internationally including at Seattle International Film Festival (USA), Cinedans (NL), AAS (JP) Napolidanza, (IT) and Sao Carlos Videodance Festival (BR) among others. Her short film ‘Your Chevrolet’ (2016) was awarded Second Prize and Cinema Prize in Choreographic Captures/Joint Adventures 2015, Munich (GE). She was a 2016 AIR at Studio Current Seattle, WA, 2012, The Field NYC Artward Bound Resident at Earthdance (Plainsfield, MA-USA) and a 2011 Summer Dreaming Resident (NY, NY- USA) a 2010 resident artist at Space Available (WA-USA) and a 2009 Flight Deck Resident at Open Flight Studio (WA-USA). She was a 2012 Artist Trust (WA-USA) award winner, a 2011 Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture (WA-USA) Individual Projects award winner and a 2008 and 2010 4Culture (WA-USA) grantee. She has received additional support from Kodak and The Northwest Film Forum.