every.single.one
Empowering
Stories of
Resilience
Stories of
Resilience
A performance
by Cherie Sampson
by Cherie Sampson
every.single.one, Southern Theater, 2024 Minnesota Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN. USA (Photo: Dave Suggs)
“every.single.one” is an intimate, one-woman multimedia performance blending personal testimony and the voices of those facing hereditary cancer through spoken word, expressive movement and immersive audio-visuals. It explores familial interrelations, genetic and medical science, integrative oncology and resiliency from the unique perspectives of cancer patients and survivors.
Performance & Projection design: Cherie Sampson (with painting by Doris Sampson incorporated into projections)
Videography by: Brian Macneel
The approach to my treatment is known as "integrative oncology”, which I strongly believe is an important facet in the future of oncology along with advances in medical science.
Healing in a cancer context does not necessarily mean being cured, nor even in remission, but an endeavor to attain as much wholeness as is feasible amid turmoil.
- Cherie Sampson, Living at the intersection of science and art inverview
Healing in a cancer context does not necessarily mean being cured, nor even in remission, but an endeavor to attain as much wholeness as is feasible amid turmoil.
- Cherie Sampson, Living at the intersection of science and art inverview
“every.single.one” was a 2023 Finalist for a Jane Chambers Award in feminist performance
What if you or a loved one carried a risk for hereditary cancer and did not know it?
For people with mutations in the BRCA gene, breast cancer risk is 72% by age 80 (BRCA1 carriers) and 69% (BRCA2), yet only a relatively small percentage of people diagnosed with cancer undergo genetic testing. Only 10% of people that carry a BRCA genetic mutation know that they do. (Dr. Susan Domchek, Basser Center for BRCA, at ASCO Annual Meeting, 2025)