10-pointer
An anthology of deer stories. The deer in all its forms: fawn, doe, buck, spotted, gutted. Personally, I can’t get the idyllic beast out of my head, and it seems that everyone has something to say about a stag. 10-pointer tells of magic and tragedy and humanity in the form of a big antlered hart. We will hear from your neighbors, peoples of the woods, and the ghosts in the…
1-Way Mirror
1-Way Mirror started with a personal question: are you still your mother’s daughter if you are no longer a woman? To embark on this disentanglement, choreographers Mimi Doan and Cole Stapleton, alongside director Sacha Vega, developed a practice of ‘doppelgangering’. Doppelgangering is an experiment in psychoanalytic introjection: the unconscious adoption of another’s characteristics. The practice involves uninterrupted durational mirroring; investigating queerness retroactively through our childhoods. The resulting scores utilize vectors,…
‘Mae West’: The Comeback Tour
It’s the opening night of the Comeback Tour, 2025. Mae West is 132 years old and hotter than ever. Sex symbol, gay icon, and the O.G. prophet of Camp is back to do all her big hits and be commodified. Because… inflation. With bio queen realness, high camp, and good-old-fashioned physical comedy, West is on full display through the lens of the true comedienne that she is. In a time…
“How I Got Over”
Four Theatre Works that grapple (with) our moment through metaphor, allegory, image and poetry. Ancestor stories, personal stories, twisting satire. Insight and solace as we battle. Islands of calm and humor. Powers delivered by those who loved and preceded us. We repeat. We repeat. “How I Got Over.” The Pork Chop Wars (Laurie Carlos) Three by Moritz: Philoctetes on Spring Garden Street, Hungry Heart, and Love Luv. Ensemble:Robert Boyd Junior…
“Be Good!” with Paulette
Introducing the mildest man imaginable. Don’t ask about his black eye. Paulette stumbles into a theater full of the most people he’s ever seen, and he doesn’t know whether to panic or mingle. Sporting a brown sweater and a hot-off-the-fist black eye, he dares to approach the stage armed with nothing but an arsenal of pleasantries, a pocketful of charm, and a monumental fear of rejection. Audiences to date have…
Set, Standard
Set, Standard is a commentary on art criticism. Using dance, text, and improvisation, this work satirizes the conflation between art criticism and personal critique by questioning what happens when our art is critiqued. Is our personhood being critiqued as well? When bodies become art objects, how does critique capture a moving body in space? Set, Standard originated as a choreographed hyperbolic fight between a visual artist and a dancemaker with…
BODY LOVE: Strength, Range of Motion, & Inversions
BODY LOVE: STRENGTH, RANGE OF MOTION, & INVERSIONS is part of a series of workshops Pig Iron will offer this fall to continue training the next generation of daring theater artists while our graduate program is paused. From August to December, beloved faculty and exceptional guest artists will lead masterclasses, training intensives, and skill-building workshops in the Pig Iron Studios for participants with a wide range of performance interests, from…
Songs of the Desert
Songs of the Dessert is a collection of personal musical reflections inspired by a magical place in California High Desert called Joshua Tree. Home to a unique plant of the same name, Joshua Tree has been awakening creative impulses in humans from the early days of Native Indians, who left their pictographs on the rocks, to the contemporary artists, architects, musicians and spiritual seekers. Joshua Tree’s name was made world-famous…
clapping for nature
What does it feel like to clap for the soil, a tree, the sky? While our planet continues to warm from systems of capitalism, we can still celebrate and reconnect with these ecological communities in an effort to cultivate awareness and action on a collective scale. Clapping is a contagious behavior, like a yawn or laughter. An individual clap soon becomes collective, prefiguring the type of responses necessary for halting…
Caminé, caminé,y caminé, pero nunca llegué…
The story, originally written for the stage by Veronica Mercedes Ponce De Leon & Francisco Javier Carbajal, follows the abridged life of a young mexican punk rocker who seeks to find new opportunities across the Tijuana, Mexico border. Confusion and tragedy ensues which results in our protagonist being lost in the Mexicali desert. The cast is made up of members of the community that supports Ollin Yoliztlin Calmecac in their…
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