Peggy Piacenza

The Forever Project | January 18 - 21 

Piacenza’s personal and artistic movement archives are deconstructed and exaggerated with dark humor through a satirical ecofeminism lens.

  • Thursday, January 18 at 8pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Friday, January 19 at 5pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Friday, January 19 at 8pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Saturday, January 20 at 2pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Saturday, January 20 at 5pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Saturday, January 20 at 8pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Sunday, January 21 at 2pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Sunday, January 21 at 5pm (SOLD OUT)

  • Sunday, January 21st at 8pm (SOLD OUT)

Piacenza’s 30-year professional performance career and her history as a sex worker become an embodied tapestry of artistic material, a thematic entanglement of sex labor, the pursuit of freedom, and ageism.

Piacenza’s personal and artistic movement archives are deconstructed and exaggerated with dark humor through a satirical ecofeminism lens, in a quest to answer how we find connection with others while undergoing the never-ending project of self-growth and the search for purpose.

Larger-than-life characters originally performed by Piacenza in works created and directed by Dayna Hanson (Gloria’s Cause, Improvement Club, and The Clay Duke) are embodied within a single identity, combined with personal lived experience, and reimagined to explore touch, ironies of capitalism and labor, and tensions between safety and materialism.

Within The Forever Project, the body emerges as a container for the sacred and profane, a site for memoir and fiction to coalesce as the blurred lines between the real and artificial are explored.

The Forever Project is supported in part, by a grant from 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and Base: Experimental Arts & Space.

Please Note: The Forever Project is an intimate performance with only 40 seats per show and no late entry. Out of respect for the nature of the performance, Peggy, and the cast, we have some rules in place that aren’t typical to our regular programming:

Ticketholders: We ask that you are checked in no later than 10 minutes to curtain. If you are not, your tickets will be released to our rush ticket list.

Rush ticket hopefuls: We will begin taking names for the rush list 1 hour ahead of curtain, when the lobby opens. You are welcome to leave and return if you would like, but please be back in the lobby no later than 15 minutes to curtain in case we do have a ticket for you.

Our bar has an array of cocktails, natural wine, beer, and NA beverages to help you settle in well in advance of the show without any concern of time or space.

Peggy Piacenza is a Seattle choreographer, video artist, and performer whose work draws from her explorations in improvisation/performance techniques, religion and gender studies, and interdisciplinary collaborations. Her choreography has been commissioned and presented by Bonfire Gallery, Bratislava Movement Festival in Slovakia, Dance Theater Workshop in NYC, and in Seattle as part of Velocity Dance Center's Guest Artist Series, On the Boards, Composer/Choreographer, D-9 Dance Collective, and Northwest Film Forum. As a performer, she has toured nationally and internationally with Pat Graney, 33 Fainting Spells, and Dayna Hanson, as well as with her own work. She is also the co-founder of Base, a non-profit organization dedicated to elevating risk and invention in dance, performance, and multidisciplinary art. Peggy Piacenza is fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.