Events

Throughout the 2025 / 2026 season, ten artists selected via a peer nomination process will each receive access to space and financial support for early stage research into their new projects.

Acclaimed choreographer Juliana F. May is renowned for creating thrillingly elaborate cycles of song, text, and movement from the wreckage of difficult experience. In Optimistic Voices, a reprise of her BAM debut, May delves into the tangled contradictions of family, eroticism, and motherhood.

NOTHING: more is an anti-still life, a moving composition of objects and bodies in a process of making and remaking the self.

In the spirit of the unfinished, the unformed, and the untamed, the Saturday Salons bring together visual artists, writers, musicians, composers, performers, and others to present selections from works-in-process.

Your Ghost Body is a memory palace in the form of a playable junkyard. Its genesis was an inquiry into the way I carry the landscapes of childhood and adolescence with me as a psychic possession and the question of what to do in middle age with the vestigial homing instinct for a place I no longer inhabit.

Made in Heaven is a new performance and visual art piece by Neal Medlyn in collaboration with Ulrika Andersson featuring live music, dance, painting, and video. Inspired by the Jeff Koons/Cicciolina art disaster, and following large scale works by Medlyn on themes of death and God, Made in Heaven is about sex and the doomed and comic creation of something alluring, menacing, and holy.

Loosely using Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, scientist Steven will dive into the world of exploring how shadows and sounds can match up to make feelings happen. All ages are welcome, especially ages 5 - 12 years old.

Control emerges from research into y?kai (shapeshifting entities) and henshin (transformational processes) from Okinawan folkloric traditions. Drawing on postwar Japanese cinema’s treatment of corporeal transformation and sexualized violence in films like Paradise View and Woman in the Dunes, invites six paired performers into a shared, occupied site where sensual memory, historical trauma, and embodied shame oscillate and intersect within the dark, heavily surveilled space of the theater.

BANKing: […/+*^%<>€£¥$&@!!!!^^^] is an immersive performance that confronts the body as an ambivalent site of political and existential inscription.

Memory Fleet is a continually expanding, episodic, migrating performance that builds an alternative archive for the preservation of shared embodied memories and stories.