Performance | Slow Dance

Melanie McLain, Peripersonal

  • September 27, 2026 | 1 pm–2 pm

Select days, Sep 13–Oct 18

A person is interacting with a geometric sculpture in an indoor space. The sculpture features a green panel with rectangular cutouts, positioned over a red carpet. Large concrete walls and a high ceiling are visible in the background. Another person is partially visible through one of the cutouts.

Melanie McLain, Peripersonal, 2020. OTRXS MUNDXS, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2020–21. Courtesy of the artist.

Taking its title from a term used in neuroscience, Peripersonal refers to the zone of space immediately surrounding one’s body. In performances, the wall-like partitions of Peripersonal separate two dancers who improvise their movements in response to one another and to the limits imposed by the surrounding structure.

Performed by: Kara Brody, Hanna DiLorenzo, Erin Kilmurray, and Amanda Maraist

Slow Dance

Slow Dance features artists who use performance to reclaim forms of slowness that resist the contemporary demand to constantly perform.

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