A Response to Rashid Johnson, Stage, by TeeDee Simons

Performance artist, choreographer, and producer TeeDee Simons’s response to Rashid Johnson’s Stage, 2026, is a duet that explores the vesica piscis motif—a symbol dating back to Byzantine iconography that often appears in Rashid Johnson’s work. This performance finds inspiration in the symbol as a source for movement-making. The choreography continually returns the two dancers to their inhabited circles, each in conversation with the other. By exploring the spatial possibilities within the geometry of the intersecting shapes, a game emerges between the dancers as they inhabit the liminal space between their bodies and the geometry of the vesica piscis.