approach gesture response, documentation from the premiere performance at Redcat in Los Angeles on March 8th 2020

Enigmatic mezzo-soprano and performance maker Roksna Zeinapur plays herself playing a performer attempting to sing an aria. From a schizophrenic mother to the loneliness of twilight to the humorous absurdity inherent in anonymous sex, Artist Barnett Cohen, poetically explores the interstice through which emotional pain passes from the interior of being into the light of performance.