Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein
Dance, Workshops & Classes
In this workshop participants will focus on the body as the motor inside performance, and experiment with one of Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein’s generative devices for creating physical performance material. Deep, intentional physical practice sets performers up to take risks and push past discomfort, and risk-taking is at the core of this practice. This workshop is accessible to all performers and will adapt to participants’ accessibility needs. No dance experience is required, but comfort with physical exertion and playful experimentation is key!
September 18, 2026 1.30pm
$35 GA and FREE for 2026 Fringe Festival artists
1417 N 2nd St
Studio A
General Admission: $35
About the Artist
LISA FAGAN and LENA ENGELSTEIN are NYC-based experimental choreographers and performers whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” and “dance theater at its peak potential” by critics. Since 2017, they’ve functioned as a cogenerative, circulatory idea machine, whose unconventional performative frameworks are rooted in dance-adjacent physicality but reimagine what choreography can be used to accomplish theatrically.
Recent work includes Friday Night Rat Catchers (world premiere March 2025 at New York Live Arts; Remounted in 2027’s Under the Radar and Live Artery Festivals; One of only two 2026 Under the Radar Commissions), Deepe Darknesse (Jan 2024 in New York Live Arts’ Live Artery; full-page review in The New York Times; premiere June 2023 at The Collapsable Hole), 1-800-3592-113592 (March 2024 at MITU580 with performance collective CHILD, of which Fagan/Engelstein are founding members; included in “Best Theater of 2024, ” The New Yorker), Catches No Flies (Jan 2020, Exponential Festival; Inaugural Exponential Fellowship), Red Carrots (Jan 2019, Exponential Festival), and more. They are recipients of the 2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists in Dance, BAC Open artists in residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center (Fall ‘23), two NYSCA Individual artists grants, and support from Mercury Store, Coffey Street Artists Initiative, and others.
- Lisa Fagan & Lena EngelsteinChoreography Direction & Performance of Friday Night Rat Catchers
Accessibility & Content Considerations
Contact the Fringe Festival Box Office for up to date accessibility information.
Covid-19 Safety policy
This event does not require masks to be worn
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