Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener
Open Machine
To Be Announced.
2025
Joshua William Gelb: Theatre in Quarantine
Phantom of the Opera
To Be Announced.
Abby Z and the New Utility
Exhilarama!
To Be Announced.
Jack Ferver
My Town
To Be Announced.
2024
Raja Feather Kelly
The Absolute Future
The Absolute Future is the feath3r theory’s 2024 production featured 7 performers, lighting design by Tuce Yasak, and an original score by Christoph Mateka. The performance purports to be about a group of friends who team up to watch The Great American Eclipse and miss it and that is the narrative you see, but for the feath3r theory, The Absolute Future is a work budding existential crisis. It is a work that asks us how we come together and why we fall apart.
The Builders Association
Atlas Drugged
ATLAS DRUGGED (Tools for Tomorrow) is a playful analysis of both the current moment, in which AI-generated “evidence” influences much of what we think and feel, and also a speculation about a near future where candidates themselves are as engineered as their messages.
2023
Joshua William Gelb: Theatre in Quarantine
Nosferatu in 3D, a Symphony of Horror
“… these shows — in their weirdness, humor, gravitas, intellectual curiosity, graphic boldness and electric vitality — offered the best argument by far for the artistic promise of streaming theater.” — The New York Times, Critics Pick’
Eiko Otake
Slow Turn & The Duet Project: Distance is Malleable
Distance is Malleable, is a mutable and evolving series of experiments in collaboration. Negotiating differences of race, age, culture, and religion, she partners with a diverse range of artists, living and dead, to maximize the potential of their encounters.
Tei Blow
Fellow Traveler
Fellow Traveler is a dystopian romantic comedy based on the life and work of a Real Magnanimous Artist and the various support staff, associate artistic administrators, romantic partners, and unpaid interns who shepherd him throughout his career.
600 Highwaymen
No Bones in the Tongue
Since 2009, 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone) have been making live art that, through a variety of radical approaches, illuminates the inherent poignancy of people coming together. The work exists at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter.
Philip Venables and Ted Huffman
Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
“Many operas in the standard repertoire are based on fairy tales and fantasy. But few of those describe a global queer-feminist revolution, and fewer still have main characters whose names begin with “Warren” and end with an unusual moniker for a genital appendage.” – The New York Times
2022
2022
Keely Garfield
The Invisible Project
Garfield, with collaborators Paul Hamilton, Molly Lieber, Angie Pittman, and Opal Ingle, contends with presence and absence, emotionally extravagant embodiment, and understated disappearing acts to offer a glimpse of hope. Original music from Jeff Berman harmonizes spirited testimonials and percussive soundscapes to underscore the intimacy and largess in the body of the work.
Trajal Harrell
Maggie the Cat
“Maggie the Cat is fabulously diverse in every way.” — The New York Times
Troubled but tough, unloved but unbowed, Maggie the Cat is the captivating focus of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Now, acclaimed American choreographer Trajal Harrell places Maggie center stage in his magnetic new dance work, a dazzling and provocative fusion of high art and pop culture that premiered at Manchester International Festival 2019.
John Jasperse Projects
Visitation
John Jasperse Projects makes its first appearance at NYU Skirball with the premiere of Visitation, a new dance that is part seance and part exorcism. Created in collaboration with performers Tim Bendernagel, Cynthia Koppe, and Doug LeCours, the work loosely draws on spiritualism, Mesmerism, the occult, hysteria, and the exoticization of myth. The dance vacillates between pensive, introspective sensing and lush sequences of cascading movement that verge on camp.
2021
Richard Maxwell and NYC Players
Field of Mars
“One of the great experimental theater artists of his generation.” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
In Field of Mars, a chain restaurant in Chapel Hill is used as a way to measure the progress of primates, from hunter/gatherer to fast casual dining experience. Topics covered: Music, Food, Nature, and Spirituality.
Featuring a cast of 11 actors: Lakpa Bhutia, Nicholas Elliott, Jim Fletcher, Eleanor Hutchins, Paige Martin, Brian Mendes, James Moore, Phil Moore, Steven Thompson, Tory Vazquez and Gillian Walsh.
David Dorfman Dance
(A)Way Out of My Body
“He always has a quality of celebration in his work and, structurally, his choreography can be a bit wild, a bit untamed.” — The New York Times
Employing “out of body” experiences as a metaphor for our body politic, David Dorfman propels his dancers through space and time in a search of personal truths. With breath-taking lighting and visual design by theater-maker Andrew Schneider (YOUARENOWHERE) and the company’s four-person house band, led by singer/songwriter Elizabeth DeLise, Dorfman’s newest work, (A)Way Out of My Body, beckons us into the otherworldly-ness of dreams, desires, and routines, as well as potential new worlds awaiting us.
2020
Madboots Dance
Holy
For its rhythmic persistence and vision of everyday veneration, Allen Ginsberg’s iconic Footnote to Howl runs through the veins of this anthemic work. Choreographers Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz mine their athletic yet vulnerable movement language to create a world that pays reverence to humankind. Joining the creative team, New York-based composer Jordan Chiolis builds an original soundscape to be performed live. HOLY is a meditation on corporeal magnanimity.
Pavel Zuštiak and Palissimo Company
Hebel
Pavel Zuštiak’s new evening-length performance work HEBEL is a collaboration with scenographer Keith Skretch, composer Christian Frederickson, and lighting designer Joe Levasseur. Taking its title from the ancient Book of Ecclesiastes, HEBEL interrogates the text’s key question: “What do you gain from all your work?” Through an interdisciplinary, strongly visual and textured approach, Zuštiak mines themes of human ambition, meaning and identity, reflecting on human effort and and individual life’s worth.
2019
John Kelly
Underneath the Skin
Created and performed by John Kelly, Underneath the Skin, is a new solo work of dance-theater drawn from the life of the societal and sexual maverick, Samuel Steward (1909-1993). A novelist, poet, and scholar, Steward abandoned his post as a staid university professor to reinvent himself as a writer of gay erotic fiction (aka Phil Andros), and as one of the 20th century’s most accomplished and influential tattoo artists (aka Philip Sparrow). He had trysts with Valentino, Lord Alfred Douglas, and Roy Fitzgerald (aka Rock Hudson); attracted the friendships of Gertrude Stein, Thornton Wilder, and Andre Gide; and having meticulously recorded every sexual encounter he ever had in his “Stud File,” became an unofficial collaborator at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research in the 1950s.
2018
Ethan Philbrick
Choral Marx
Choral Marx is a singing adaptation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto for the Communist Party composed by Ethan Philbrick. It is a piece for mixed chorus—mixed not just in terms of gendered voice parts but also in terms of training and ability—made up of vocalists from both the contemporary music scene and socialist organizing communities, accompanied by the composer on cello. Choral Marx re-sounds Marx and Engels’s 1848 critique of capitalism in 2018 and explores the resonance of the Manifesto today.