Yet "The Absence of Izanagi," the new 35-minute solo she offered on Thursday night at the Annex at La MaMa, suggested that she remains concerned with existential ordeals.
I know that it is an existential and moral ordeal," he added.
In a letter published on Tuesday by the Vatican, Francis said he had "met so many women who bear in their heart the scar of this agonising and painful decision", and described the plight facing women who terminated pregnancies as an "existential and moral ordeal".
At the time, Francis defended his decision by focusing on the personal situations that force some women to get abortions, saying he was "well aware of the pressure that led them to this decision" and that it was an "existential and moral ordeal".
I know that it is an existential and moral ordeal.
He deliberately sidestepped Actionism's physical ordeals and existential intensity.
His early work developed in opposition to the harrowing performances of the Viennese Actionists, which were fraught with physical ordeals and existential intensity.
They communicate with one another through horseplay, teasing and occasional expressions of love, and they regard their work as an ordeal, a noble cause, an existential nightmare and a source of pleasure.
Mr. Ralston's ordeal — described in many interviews after the fact and in his lively, unaffected memoir, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" — was a struggle for survival and a profound existential crisis.
Having endured a summer of existential threats to the planet — zombie hordes, alien invaders, the usual stuff — moviegoers can now settle in for an autumn of more intimately scaled ordeals.
