Archive

Since its first season in 2005, The Chocolate Factory Theater has supported the development and presentation of new work by a community of local, national and international artists working in dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performance. The Chocolate Factory’s programs have drawn many thousands of new visitors to its 5,000 square foot industrial facility in Long Island City, Queens. The organization recently purchased a permanent facility in the neighborhood.

Archived Events

September 14, 2024

CATCH 76

$20 cash only at the door

CATCH promotes community and the exchange of ideas across a broad constellation of progressive artists, scenes, and their friends and fans, by curating, producing, promoting and documenting parties that center short (and frequently in-progress) performances and videos.
In an effort to deepen our understanding of what dance is and how it has functioned throughout human history, this prismatic book project is dedicated to an artist-centric perception of dance history. This book interrogates the history of dance from the subjective, poetic perspective of a choreographer. Diverse dance artists from the American dance field contribute prismatic, disruptive perspectives on how dance has unfolded over time and what dance history is.
Interdisciplinary artist Daniel Fish and Chocolate Factory Theater co-founder / Artistic Director Brian Rogers will share their new experimental films. Anonymous Cathedral, by Daniel Fish, is a visual meditation on the street life of a single day in Brooklyn, shot in the fall of 2020. Small Songs, by Brian Rogers, is an abstract autofictional travelogue - and a love letter to the artist Nancy Holt - made from footage captured during several cross-country road trips between 2021 and 2024.
Returning to perform in the US for the first time in several years, French transplant DD Dorvillier crafts a solo in collaboration with sound artist Sébastien Roux, structured by dance scores which emerged from a dream. In this work dance digs as an archeologist, as the dancer’s present is confronted by an immediate sonic past, as she moves towards the future.