ABOUT

Support Structures featuring performers, MacKenzie LeTorré and Nora Stephens, took place in the Mezzanine Gallery of Boston City Hall on October 23, 2025. The performance sought to display soft power in contrast to the Brutalist architecture of City Hall. Nora and MacKenzie began with a slow, deliberate descent down the staircase exemplifying responsiveness, flexibility and agility as they traversed the rigid hand railings. Caregiving requires similar soft skills to navigate systems of care and yet we often overlook the power and tenacity required to get a loved one's needs met. At the culmination of the performance, MacKenzie and Nora become intertwined in Kate Holcomb Hale’s plush railing. Relief washes over them (and possibly us) as the softness they laid bare on Boston City Hall cushions their tired bodies and connects them as they exit the space together.

Support Stuctures (above)

live performance at Boston City Hall (Boston, MA)

featuring MacKenzie LeTorre + Nora Stephens

October 23, 2025

ABOUT

I can hold you, you can hold me is a dance and performance work in relation to Kate Holcomb Hale’s soft sculpture, I want to climb this but I know it can't hold me. Direction by Nora Stephens in collaboration and improvisation with Adriane Brayton. Performance by Adriane Brayton and Nora Stephens at the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University's Women's Studies Research Center.

I can hold you, you can hold me (above)

Live performance at Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University's 

Women's Studies Research Center (Waltham, MA)

Performed by Nora Stephens and Adriane Brayton

August 19, 2025