The Artist’s Debt
Performance drives creativity, drives community, drives performance, drives community, drives creativity. Early in his career, performer and visual artist Tyler Palma discovered just how interconnected the artistic community that springs up around theatrical events can be. Meditating upon the universal synchronicity of artistic expression inspired Tyler to further explore what it means to form an artistic community. How does the community form, especially when myriad artists have a vast array…
The Abstraction Aquarium
Grab a drink and dive into the Abstraction Aquarium to experience an eclectic mix of theatre experiments, circus, installations, sculpture, and more. This idea-playground celebrates the Proof of Concept and the artists as they develop works in progress, offering a sneak peek into the creative mind. The gallery is open for 5 hours – come whenever you’d like, stay for as long as you’d like. List of participant coming…
TGIF: 90’s Sitcom Classics Mash-Up
TGIF: 90’s Sitcom Classics is a blast from the past comedy show. Each performance is inspired by culturally significant sitcoms that birthed the one-liners, reference points and silver screen magic.
Testing Site
Testing Site is about a being who is summoned into a white room and finds out that he is a subject in a series of experiments relating to phobias, conducted by a godlike mystery. While undergoing these experiments, the test subject begins to wonder if there is more to this test than he was told.
Terry Pollard
Terry Pollard: A Jazz Epistolary is a piece about bebop, influence, how opportunity knocks across genders, the jazz and tap dance scene in the 1950s, communication, what’s said and unsaid, and really, nothing new. While we can only imagine how much Terry had to persevere as a black female jazz musician and mother in the 1950s, the experience of surviving in the competitive forum of jazz music and art-making, alongside the experience…
Tea Party at the End of the World
As a guest of this intimate tea party, you will be served tea of exceptional quality, play entirely civilized parlor games, and when the end comes, no need to panic, you won’t be alone. You and your fellow guests are attendees at a tea party at the end of the world, partaking in the rituals and obligations of being a guest in someone else’s, for lack of a better word,…
Takin’ It To The Streets: A Community Tap Dance Workshop
Takin’ It To The Streets: A Community Tap Dance Workshop
SUGAR HOUSES
SUGAR HOUSES is an evening-length dance theater piece created by Rosanna Gamson. This work is inspired by the story of Hansel and Gretel, the fairy tale’s historical underpinnings, coded antisemitism, and violent imagery. Through a deconstructed narrative and jump-scares from horror movies, the choreography explores the extremes of physicality, evoking the grotesquery and violence of fairy tales, and the ferocious intimacy of siblings. The presentation of Sugar Houses was made…
Sinky The Pirate
During COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, I looked over at the kitchen sink in my studio apartment and thought, that could be a boat. From there, I dreamt up “Sinky The Stinky Pirate.” I made short, silly videos alone in my home and, all the while, dreamt of bringing the idea of Sinky not only to a little screen in your pocket but to a communal, collective, theatrical space where we can now examine…
Study Hall: Comedy Inspired By Lectures
Study Hall is now in session! This long running comedy show mixes real lectures with improv comedy to create a show that is both entertaining and educational! Guests from all walks of life will lecture on a topic they are familiar with after which our cast of amazing improvisers will use what they learned (or didn’t learn) to create hilarious scenes right before your eyes! Whether you were the class…
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