TCS performance for For Your Eyes Only, created in collaboration with Yasmine Nasser Diaz, 2023
co-presented by OXY ARTS and Los Angeles Nomadic Division

TCS performance for For Your Eyes Only, created in collaboration with Yasmine Nasser Diaz, 2023

photo credits: Tracy Nguyen; Video clip: Andy Chinn

This performance activates Yasmine Nasser Diaz’s installation For Your Eyes Only (FYEO) and was created in collaboration between Diaz and dancers, Téa Devereaux, Chryssa Hadjis, and Simrin Player.

Guided by the core themes of the installation in which they perform, the dancers' movements fluctuate between softness, intimacy, and mutual care, and moments of physical power, solidarity, and collective resistance—mirroring FYEO’s entanglement of private space and public protest. Their bodies echo feminist and transnational movements, including gestures from the Chilean collective Las Tesis’ viral protest anthem and the green bandana of Argentina’s abortion-rights movement. The result is an embodied extension of FYEO’s universe, where vulnerability and strength coexist as tools of transnational connection and political presence.

Director: Yasmine Nasser Diaz
Original choreography by TCS: Téa Devereaux, Chryssa Hadjis, and Simrin Player
Music: Composition by Carol Abi Ghanem, Mixing and mastering by Elie Abi Ischac

co-presented at OXY ARTS with Los Angeles Nomadic Division on June 3, 2023
Made possible with support from the Los Angeles Nomadic Division, the Mellon Foundation, the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the Wilhelm Family Foundation.