Heartshakes
Heartshakes are the vibrations that bring us back into sensation. The waves a heart sends out reach though vast terrains, through time and space. This dance feels for the interval in which that wave is returned like an echo, reminding us of our desires, pleasures, and tenderness. Shannon stewards a group of performers including maris, Beau Hancock, mik philips, Kayla Rickets Michele Tantoco, and Sara Yasksy. Together they play and…
Hazard House
“Hazard House” is a site-specific, contemporary circus experience… in an attic. Inspired by dark rides and Rube Goldberg machines, and absolutely full of chaotic juggling.
Half Magic
A cardboard box mountain looms over him. Joe knows his job – to take these relics of a life and do the impossible task of sorting them into “Trash” or “Treasure”. But as he opens the first box, he finds himself drawn through a portal to the past, reliving the moments that shaped him. He hurtles from the stay-at-home care of his white mom, to the immigrant line-cook stories of…
Guilt Free
Guilt Free is a solo comedy show by sometimes comedian, sometimes model Maddie Silverstein that will take the audience on a dark and funny ride where nothing is off limits, from cottage cheese to Heath Ledger. Although Guilt Free is Maddie’s solo show debut, she has been performing comedy and writing for almost a decade, including a failed improv phase and most recently taking a Clown 101 class. But she’s…
Group Therapy
Can’t Get Right? We’ve got you covered with an interactive comedy experience featuring local performers, actual therapists and you! Come through, solve some problems and make new one’s if you dare. What happens at Group Therapy stays at Group Therapy.
Goodbye Party the Show
Goodbye Party is an evening-length work of physical theater and circus set in the offices of the going-out-of-business Earth, The Planet, LLC. As the corporation collapses, the multi-species staff congregate for a final farewell to the planet they call their office. Despite the prospect of a dire future, the diverse departments of this sprawling organization have each coaxed a representative to offer a presentation on behalf of their phylogeny, so…
CANCELED: Uncle Dick vs. Cauczilla
This show has been canceled. Uncle Dick vs. Cauczilla is my Uncle Dick’s theatrical apology for his racist ways. He is taking to the stage to offer a grand gesture and make amends with his nephew. Attempting to create a piece of theater that will prove he’s not a racist, not a bad guy, not a dick uncle, Uncle Dick turns to song, dance, and elaborate science fiction storytelling to perform…
CANCELED: Uncle Mike’s All-Day Apple Butter
This performance has been canceled. Uncle Mike’s All-Day Apple Butter Created by mike durkin, with Angela Trovato Silence. Absolute silence. Finding commune with each other. The volume of the outside world turned completely down. Utter presence. Uncle Mike’s All-Day Apple Butter is a durational performance and installation. Mike begins by coring, peeling and chopping the apples, cooking them, and pureeing them. Then for 6 hours, Mike stands, in…
Unknowns & Rest Intervention: A Split Bill
Unknowns is a collaboration between choreographer Darcy Lyons and visual artist Ivia Sky Yavelow. Accompanied by a live music score by Jesse Sparhawk playing harp, electric, bass, and pedal steel guitar. Dancers interact with an installation of soft sculptures that represent unknowns in ourselves, others, and the outside world. The sculptures and dancers react to each other, exploring changing relationships to the unknowns- an exploration that asks specific questions about…
Unplanned Obsolescence
Machines break. So do people. Both can be replaced. Jax is a failing children’s performer who has just received some bad news: there’s a 50% chance that they’re about to die. Their wife begs them to take it seriously, but Jax believes that one of their best qualities is never taking anything seriously for their whole life. Unable to cope with the prospect of their own death, they train a…
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