Performatist
    Dance

    Risha Gorig: The Journey

    Illustration for Risha Gorig: The Journey

    Saturday, April 11, 2026

    8:00 AM

    Prospect Park

    Various locations, Brooklyn

    Scheduled

    About This Event

    Risha Gorig presents The Journey at Prospect Park. Her work draws on formal training and sustained studio practice, treating movement as narrative rather than display and situating choreography in outdoor sites; the piece occupies a space between contemporary dance and site-responsive performance and favors clarity over spectacle.

    About The Journey

    The Journey is a dance work presented live in Prospect Park, situating movement inside one of Brooklyn’s most used public landscapes. Featured performer Risha Gorig carries the piece through a sequence that treats travel less as geography than as accumulation—of memory, labor, and small decisions. It reads as part of New York City’s long tradition of bringing performance out of theaters and into shared space, where weather and passersby become part of the frame. Its most telling choice is its restraint, allowing context to do some of the speaking.

    About the Artist

    Risha Gorig

    Risha Gorig

    Risha Gorig is a dance artist presenting work in New York City, including appearances at Prospect Park. Her piece *The Journey* draws on a background shaped by formal training and sustained studio practice, with attention to movement as narrative rather than display.