Shanna Lim is a DC area dancer and performance artist who has enthralled Art All Night audiences for many years. I have been fortunate to witness (and photograph) many of Shanna’s site-specific, deeply personal, evocative and provocative performances as she enthralls and moves her audiences.
Shanna’s opening performance at The Fire and the Cross will reflect the theme of a crisis of faith based on her own recent experiences. She describes the performance as follows:
Prayer in a Casket – An audience-interactive performance, art Baoding dance piece that depicts a spiritual struggle questioning the realm of unanswered prayers by a grieving mother. Audience members are encouraged to arrive early to inscribe their own personal prayer of conflict on canvasses.
Shanna is a second generation immigrant and interdisciplinary site specific performance and visual artist whose work is focused on the audience interactive (EI) Emotional Intelligence plain of human connection and shaking the challenges of limited realities. Present research work is an epicentral place holder for parents living in the suffrage of loss. As a mother, she takes you through her grief process from the loss of a SUN.
Having experienced and loved Shanna’s many performances at Art All Night, I am honored and excited that she agreed to open the performances at The Fire and the Cross.