Spring 2022

Dance visionary Eiko Otake’s newest offering is a mutable and evolving series of experiments in collaboration. Negotiating differences of race, age, culture, and religion, she partners with artists, living and dead, to maximize the potential of their encounters. This New York premiere will include Eiko’s duets with choreographer/improviser Ishmael Houston-Jones, painter/rapper/organizer Don Christian Jones, world-renowned avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan, and poet/performance maker Iris McCloughan.

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 beckons us into the otherworldly-ness of dreams, desires, and routines.

Du Yun joins with International Contemporary Ensemble to present a diptych. In Zolle, a dead woman wanders through the shadowy space on the border between memory and reality, tracing the lines of her identity through the land she once walked – an immigrant in death as in life. A Cockroach’s Tarantella explores religion and belonging as the essential quest and the existential dread that all sentient beings experience, cockroach or not. Scored for ensemble, electronics, and spoken word, with Du Yun as the narrator and featuring Satomi Matsuzaki (Deerhoof).

Accompany Samuel Beckett’s curious figures into an uncertain future. Attired in dark cloaks and given headphones, audiences are guided through Greenwich Village on this rhythmic, immersive, group walk.

Featuring the melodic voices of Irish actors Andrew Bennett and Daniel Reardon, Beckett’s 1963 radio play Cascando is transformed into an absorbing immersive experience in which the audience is part of the spectacle. With Direction by Gavin Quinn and Sound Design and music by Jimmy Eadie, Cascando is a deeply riveting yet broken tale of a man hopelessly trying to finish a story.