Open Studios: Cherrie Yu and Shamar Watt

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Cherrie Yu and Shamar Watt share works-in-progress that they are developing as part of Abrons Arts Center’s 2025–26 Performance AIRspace residency. These performances will premiere during our Fall 2026–Spring 2027 seasons. Cherrie Yu: Daily Diversions Premiering Fall 2026 Daily Diversions is a dance work about community building through the practice of table tennis, created in collaboration with Manhattan Chinatown-based table tennis players and contemporary dancers. Shamar Watt: HUG MI CLOSE BUSHPremiering Spring 2027 Hug mi close bush is an experimental immersive processional performance that explores Wilson Harris's notion of the “Caribbean occasion“.