S H E S H I

 
 

Chocolate Factory Theater

Long Island City, NY

September 20, 2025 - 3p

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Sheshi is a playful approach to transmuting intergenerational trauma through dance. Rekindling reverence for elders, this duet between choreographer and interdisciplinary artist lily gold and her mother features sound support from artist dani derks and surprise guest performers. Tuning to ancestral resilience and reviving parts lost to assimilation, their scores are transparent with tensions and explore family stories they’ve been told, as well as ones their bodies have begun to tell.

 
 

With our dynamics on display - and countless hours of 90s Jazz class stored in our cells - my mother and I meander through time, embracing back-handed humor and coaxing aggression out of exile. Helped by science fiction, outdated pop culture, Lilith, and you, we traverse varying shades of honesty, offering up our intimacies for resonance.

 

Sheshi is a big thank you - that has demanded the most patience - and after three years in the studio, we’re ready to show you a sliver.

 
 
 
 

S H E S H I

Currently in progress. Available for booking evening length premiere.

August residency at Pillow Fort Arts Center. Showing August 30.

September residency at The Chocolate Factory Theater. Showing September 20.

Sneak peak at CATCH on September 13.

program credits

lily gold - choreographer, performer

Sheri Gold - performer

dani derks - sound

 

collaborator bios

Sheri is honored and excited to be in lily’s world of dance and creativity. It is a challenging, thrilling, learning and loving experience. Sheri finds satisfaction and inspiration in her work as a psychotherapist, caring for her plants and home, practicing Latin dance, and deepening connection with friends and family. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY with her husband, Robert, a loving source of support and admiration.

dani derks is part of the day-to-day operations at monome in upstate NY and a member of the extended universe of whimsical raps -- dani assembles instruments and creates documentation for ways to engage with them. Their personal projects are centered on coding through improvisation, creating their own environments for playful and exploratory music performance gestures.