https://www.miyashaffer.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-09 https://www.miyashaffer.com/home/dance-and-performance monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe77bf7caf95b4fe9227150/9d7b4b4d-aab4-4948-80fb-569bd1370a07/2025.+08.01.+Emily+Barash.+Kestrels.+Photo+by+Rachel+Keane.-54.JPEG Home - Dance Writing and Performance - Intimacy for the Apocalypse (2025) Kestrels, Brooklyn, New York (July 2025) In Intimacy for the Apocalypse, an unstable structure made of rope, slime, wooden levers, buckets, and streamers shifts over time as four dancers and a sound composer develop emergent, co-constituted logics to find stability and support within their material conditions. As the performers engage in gestural looping, tuning scores, and task-based scenarios, they develop new relational practices for embodied logics of survival. Intimacy for the Apocalypse investigates how bodies and environments can be reoriented out of collapse, giving way to intra- dependent speculative futures. It stages a world where bodies refuse categorization, shifting between discipline and defiance, chaos and clarity, desire and tension. Choreographer: Emily Barasch Performers: Emily Barasch, Brendan Drake, Miya Shaffer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe77bf7caf95b4fe9227150/133146b9-77a7-4313-9ac5-1983b815992f/Screenshot+2024-12-30+at+1.09.08%E2%80%AFPM.png Home - Dance Writing and Performance - Intimacy for the Apocalypse (2024) Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY (May 2024) Choreographer: Emily Barasch Performers: Emily Barasch, Wesleigh Gates, Miya Shaffer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe77bf7caf95b4fe9227150/1609100978098-2I3K9A3OIZ8FB2U4Q2PZ/Screen+Shot+2020-12-27+at+12.29.00+PM.png Home - Dance Writing and Performance - How to Continue (Together)? (2021) In this project, choreographer Emily Barasch (Los Angeles) offers an immersive performance experience, in which three performers utilize the in-between space of the Zoom meeting to co-create a new world together. Engaging with theorist and activist Adrienne Maree Brown’s concept of “emergent strategy” (2017), Barasch stages an experiment in creating an “emergent” score within and against the literal and physical distance that the Zoom space requires. https://www.miyashaffer.com/home/teaching monthly 0.5 2025-11-02 https://www.miyashaffer.com/home/research monthly 0.5 2026-02-09 https://www.miyashaffer.com/home/about monthly 0.5 2026-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fe77bf7caf95b4fe9227150/91638fa6-fc72-475a-83dd-a2921411ce98/Shaffer_Headshot.jpg