THIRST

“There’s a sense that when someone is struck by the sudden lightning of loss, he or she stands on the threshold of the spirit world.”

Thirst is a 20 minute work choreographed by Black Box’s artistic director Michelle Pearson. Thirst was commissioned by the American Dance Festival to be part of their 2023 Made In NC production. Since it’s initial premiere in June of 2023, Thirst has been restaged to be performed at Artspace in Raleigh, The Dance Complex in Boston, and was part of the 2024 North Carolina Dance Festival in Greensboro. Thirst is a work about living with grief. The dance explores what it feels like to sit with your grief and rather than focus on getting “over it” focus on all the joy, pain, and love that come with it.