in-version ensemble
La Plaza Cultural Garden, The Tank, ChuanFest
(3AM Theatre, Mabou Mines)
2025-2026
Before it hurts
Performer - Stella Oh & Wisteria Deng
Co-Direction/Movement - Jillian Faye Garibaldi
Co-Direction/Text - Cerulean Long
Dramaturg - Ziwei Chen
Stage Manager - Mia Harada
For ChuanFest (3AM Theatre, Mabou Mines):
Lighting Design - Cassie Aretsky
Costume Design - Kate Berger
For The Tank:
Lighting Design - Jillian Faye Garibaldi
Sound Design - Cerulean Long
Photos by Ruby Yiqi Wang
A dance. A fight. A tattoo session.
What's the right way to hold onto someone?
What's the right way to let go?
Before it hurts is a physical theater performance, a relational duet dissecting the intricate, intimate relationship between two female bodies, formed around the death of another. Devised around a scripted text and structured like a concept album, it presents a visceral navigation of the push and pull in various forms of intimacy and the messiness of grieving.
