No accident: Maria Hassabi falls down gracefully at MoMA

If you see someone sprawled across a staircase at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) next week, do not panic. It is all part of a work by the New York-based, Cyprus-born choreographer and artist Maria Hassabi. Plastic, which comes to MoMA from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, features a rotating cast of eight dancers moving at a glacial pace through the museum’s atrium and two stairwells. The work, which the artist describes as a “liv