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We Don’t Need the Sea to Drown is a multi-disciplinary performance from Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol that combines stories gleaned from Karol’s movement interview with Brooklyn-based artists and community leaders with Shirey’s renowned use of sound objects with the duo’s celebrated choral form, the Gauntlet, where corridors of singers pass a libretto downstream in cascadinging tones and phrases, as audiences experience waves of sound.

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Coco Karol and Sxip Shirey: We Don’t Need the Sea To Drown

National Sawdust

On this Earth Day, April 22, 2023, a young woman named Ana will find the strength to rise from the ashes of abuse and trauma as she joins with all nature to sing!

A new intimate opera of object-theatre, Precipice is envisioned to be set against epic natural landscapes with hand-made paper dioramas and live feed video.

By drawing parallels between environmental and emotional damage, Precipice looks at how we are silenced and exiled, and at how we find our way back to connection, both with each other and the natural world.

Performers from Hunter College and The American Opera Project join forces to present the first concert reading of PRECIPICE, a new chamber opera by Susan Zeeman Rogers (Concept & Design), Rima Fand (Music) and Karen Fisher (Libretto).

Composer, Vocalist

Rima Fand

Events

Past events

6 - 7 Jun, 2025

Coco Karol and Sxip Shirey: We Don’t Need the Sea To Drown · National Sawdust

Apr 22, 2023

Precipice Workshop · American Opera Projects

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