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SISSY

Opening Date: Apr 24, 2025

Closing Date: Apr 26, 2025

Running Time: 01:10

SISSY
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Playing @

Baryshnikov Arts

450 West 37th Street New York City, NY 10018

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SISSY is a modern-day reimagining of Sisyphus, expressed through dance and explored from a female perspective, taking place between the worlds of a theater and a miles-long rock quarry. But this isn’t just any woman, and this isn’t just any rock—it is a rock by day, the moon by night and a disco ball for special occasions. And each day, Sissy must push it up the giant quarry which becomes deeper and more vast every time we extract more of the earth away. Not to mention, she’s pregnant. As Sissy’s belly grows, so does the story, and the dance weaves the imaginary world of SISSY into the real-life world of the theaters’ performers and its director, a new mother grappling with caring for her ill father and her baby boy. This piece beautifully and creatively explores the Sisyphean tasks and challenges of motherhood, being an artist, a performer, a daughter—and how our approach to them is the only thing within our control. With overlapping worlds where the imaginary and the real struggle for attention, SISSY—part dance, part theater and part personal essay with elements of film—is a beautiful beast of its own making and expression.
Show Notes

Show Notes: No intermission

Performance Schedule:

THURSDAY-SATURDAY @ 7 PM

Cast

Christopher Abbott
Ida Saki
Alia Shawkat
Marisa Tomei

Director

Celia Rowlson-Hall

Written by

Celia Rowlson-Hall

Choreography

Celia Rowlson-Hall

TDF Tickets Offers:

TDF member tickets:

Not currently available for this show

Listed atTKTS

Never

Full-price tickets:

$54 - $154

Accessibility:

Box Office

For questions or requests related to accessibility, including assistance with purchasing tickets, please call the box office at (646) 731-3226 or email boxoffice@baryshnikovarts.org.

Curb Ramps

There is a step up from the street to the curb.

Restroom

Accessible restrooms are available on Floors 3, 4 and 6.

Directions Subway

A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street-Penn Station, 7 to 34th Street-Hudson Yards, B/D/F/M/R/N/Q/W to 34th Street-Herald Square

Entrance

Street level entrance, reception personnel are staffed in the lobby to assist with questions upon entrance.

Directions Bus

M11 or M42

Elevator\Escalator

All studios reachable by elevator.

Parking

Enterprise Parking (453 West 37th Street), Icon Parking (404 West 37th Street)

Telephone

None on premises

Wheelchair Info

Wheelchair accessible

Directions Driving

If traveling by car, traffic moves east to west on 37th Street and we are located closest to 10th avenue.

Seating

Accessible seats are available for each performance and can be purchased directly on our website. Jerome Robbins Theater: Seats located in row A of the Orchestra do not require the use of stairs. Seats located in the Balcony require use of stairs. Audience members sit in padded, connected seats. | Howard Gilman Performance Space: Seats do not require use of stairs. Audience members sit in freestanding, padded seats.

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Public Transportation

Subway Icon

By Subway:

A/C/E/1/2/3 to 34th Street-Penn Station, 7 to 34th Street-Hudson Yards, B/D/F/M/R/N/Q/W to 34th Street-Herald Square

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By Bus:

M11 or M42