State of Play Presents: Khala Brannigan: Maura

Maura (Work In Progress) is a deeply personal psychological thriller and horror work that draws from lived experience and ancestral Native American storytelling connected to choreographer Khala Brannigan’s lineage. Growing up with the knowledge that she has a deceased sister, Brannigan carried an uncanny sense of her presence—questioning whether she heard her speaking or whether Brannigan herself was alive. Maura explores the spaces between identity and absence, grief and embodiment, memory and myth. Experimenting with material in the book she is writing, Brannigan will interact with dancers as thresholds between realms—grief and resilience, horror and tenderness, the seen and unseen.