Marissa Rae Niederhauser – Cornish Arts Incubator

Cornish Arts Incubator Residency facilitates risk-taking within visual and performing arts for Washington-based artists. The goal of this program is to support artists in the creation of new work. Artists are encouraged to collaborate with others and step outside the boundaries of a single genre or discipline, or outside the artist’s comfort zone.

Marissa Rae Niederhauser (she/her) has been practicing dance for 42 years & making dances & body based work in film, performance art, photo, noise & installation for 21 of those years.

She received her BFA in Dance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA and after 14 years dancing in Seattle in the early 2000s she explored the broader world of dance while living in NYC, Melbourne, Berlin and PDX and is now excited to have returned “home” to Seattle. Her live works have been presented at On the Boards, The Henry Art Gallery, Project Space Available at Studio Current, Open Flight, & The Hedreen Gallery in Seattle, Performance Works Northwest in Portland, Ada Studios in Berlin, Lucy Guerrin Inc in Melbourne, AU, and at Movement Research- Judson Church, Triskelion Arts & the New Museum: Ideas City Festival in NYC. Her films have screened internationally winning prizes at Choreographic Captures- Munich, DE, SIFF, 60 Sec Dance Films and having a solo exhibition of 16 original films at Projektraum LS43 Berlin & a retrospective screening of 7 of her films at The Director’s Lounge in Berlin.
She enjoys sharing the deep work of the body not only as an artist but also as an instructor of dance, Gyrotonic®️exercise & Pilates. She navigates life through the lens of intersectional feminism. She lives with a semi-rehabilitated feral cat, Riot Girl Wrangell Rae.

About the Project
“I came into this incubator residency with the idea to combine dance and shadow puppetry to explore themes of vilification, in particular exploring feminine monsters: Medusa, Baba Yaga, Jorōgumo, etc. The abundance of resources provided by Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University and the generosity of the crew of Cornish Playhouse facilitated an expansion of this vision. Within a day it was clear we’d hit on some magic and that I had a much larger story to tell. This showing will explore themes of time and mortality. In addition to the above mentioned monsters, Chronos and The Fates are present in this work. With additional performance by ILVS STRAUSS, Lighting Design by Daniel Goody and Andy Somora and dramaturgy by Maridee Slater.”

Showtimes:
September 19th – 3:30 pm
September 20th – 7:00 pm

Alhadeff Studio – 210 Republican Street.