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The Brain Piece, presented June 28-July 1, at New York Live Arts, is part installation and part prosceniumperformance, designed to allow audiences to have an intimate experience with their ownminds and bodies. Only 72 audience members at a time are invited, yielding apersonalized and engaging experience.Performed by Oberfelder with Mary Madsen, Pierre Guilbault, and Hannah Wendel,along with 10 "dancer docents”, The Brain Piece evokes tangible and interactiveexperiences, where dance, music, visual art, film, and words enliven the inner life of thebrain through overlapping perceptual domains. With set design by Juergen Riehm (withPenelope Phy and Tine Kindermann), lighting design by Kate Bashore, and film by EricSiegel and Oberfelder, her new work invites the audience to be part of an immersivecerebral and sensorial installation, leading spectators through various spaces, eachdedicated to one aspect of the brain.Entering the intellectual and sensorial world of The Brain Piece, the audience hasaccess to a heightened subjective experience of the brain. The piece celebrates thebrain’s neuroplasticity, the ability to form connections. “My new work illuminates the“dance” that continuously takes place in our minds,” states Oberfelder. “By watchingand participating in the piece, the audience will experience their brains moving, dancing,working and playing, and understand dance as a language that goes directly to thebrain.”