Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female

Acclaimed pianist Sarah Cahill doesn’t mess around when it comes to celebrating women. In a solo performance with a marathon run-time of five hours, Cahill honors more than two dozen female composers from around the globe. Three hundred minutes of music dissolve in a rippling, stirring chain of works composed between the seventeenth century and the present; Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s 1707 Keyboard Suite in D Minor is just as at home in the first hour as Theresa Wong’s 2019 She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees is in the fifth. As if a five-hour piano performance devoted to works by women weren’t rare enough, Cahill also transforms venues into immersive participatory spaces. In CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, audience members can wander, enter, and exit at will and bring their own snacks (but no alcohol), molding the hours of music into an environment that inspires their own feminist and listening practices. —Rachel Rockwell