2017-2021
is a duet performance with mayfield brooks (NYC) that explores our separate but connected histories of the transatlantic slave trade, finding hauntings in our current psyches.
Collaborated with Migrant Artists' Mutual Aid to create Proximity: New Directions in Art and Social Repair online conference, June 2020
Performed at Improspekcije festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb 2019
Works in progress performed at Metal Culture, Liverpool & Chisenhale Dance Space, London 2017
coming soon: research project with Independent Dance, London
Supported by Arts Council England
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2019-2021
New collaboration between fashion designer Alena Kudera and multi-disciplinary performance maker Mary Pearson, international artists based within Static Gallery and Metal at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool. 2020-21 we are joined by new collaborator Yoav Admoni for set design.
episode ii took place September 12, 2020 as a site-specific outdoor performance near Ponderosa Dance, Stolzenhagen, Germany.
documentation from episode i, 2019:
https://mary-pearson-5xfm.squarespace.com
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2016-18
FoMO mofos! (Fear of Missing Out, mother***ers!)
A kaleidoscopic meditation on the digital age state of being: modern myth, cautionary tale, and cinematic visual feast, created and performed by Mary Pearson
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Toured 2014-2016
A multi disciplinary solo homage to the avante-garde, to kitsch, shtick, and academia, to snobbery, trash and easy laughs.
Written, directed and performed by Mary Pearson
visual collaboration with Anne Sophie Malmberg (DK/Berlin)
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Toured 2012-2015
Solo performance bringing together visual absurdity with contemporary dance, comedy and social commentary.
FASHION VICTIM, ASPIRING POP DIVA and CHRONIC UNDERACHIEVER is consumed by delusional fantasies of commercial success.
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2013 - 2015
Co-curated by Mary Pearson and Miriam Wolodarski
Con|VERGE residency took place at Ponderosa Tanzland (Stolzenhagen, Germany) 2013-2015. Collaborative performance residency which offered interdisciplinary performance artists a chance to come together to make new work.
Taking on board the experiences from Con|VERGE, a new residency re-emerged and was launched in 2017:
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September 2, 2016
BLANK CANVAS residency at the Firkin Crane, Cork, Ireland
Supported by LICC bursary from the Bluecoat and Create Ireland
A continuation of 'Wild Trio' project, a site-specific work commissioned by Physical Fest 2015
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