As an artist and choreographer, Hassabi has developed a distinct practice relating the body to the still image and sculptural object; she recently presented an intensive installation at the Museum of Modern Art called Plastic, in which dancers moved throughout the museum at a barely perceptible pace during all museum hours for an entire month.

For her new work, she returns to her concerns regarding the relationship between performer and audience, expectations of spectacle, and the interplay
between rehearsed and unrehearsed movement.