Events

Dayna Hanson and collaborating performers Jim Fletcher, Jim Kent, Heather Kravas and Julia Sloane are working on Hugely Amplified Present, a new dance work made of new, old and unfinished parts.

CATCH is "everyone's favorite" Obie Award–winning, itinerant, rough-and-ready series of performance parties. Satisfying the promise of New York City since 2003, CATCH gives stage to an ever-expanding universe of emerging artists and downtown luminaries — pouring equal portions of community, love, and beer.

Join us on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 for an unforgettable evening at The Chocolate Factory Theater’s Fifth Annual Gala as we proudly honor this year’s Artist In Industry Award recipients: composer David Lang and independent arts professional Janet Wong!

This Is Unreal constructs a hybrid world in which the authentic and the synthetic continuously contaminate one another. An autobiographical pact that goes awry, becoming an autofiction for the age of deepfakes, a dizzying, disorienting game that asks: where does the body end and the machine begin?

Next Dance is a new 50-minute dance performance work that investigates “next-ness”: of proceeding from the materials at hand to work toward new potentialities; of performing possibility as a negotiation with constraints.

broken (iteration III) is a swan song,a funeral song, a last song, a goodbye song. The creation of this work coincided with Findlay//Sandsmark losing their venue RIMI/IMIR SceneKunst in Stavanger in 2024. As an artwork, it happened to serve as a delicate "farewell" piece for stages in general, and how they can disappear into the ether.

boiling rain is a gathering to honor our health care workers enduring the durational tending to bodies impacted by ongoing colonialism. it draws a circle around our departed, with an additional circle around our declining frontline workers. this performance is an invitation to gather around medical mannequin Jeanie, as she departs this plane into the next.

This lecture exists in the sky, and your teacher is Paul Lazar with visits from singer Hai-Ting Chinn, a goddess from thousands of years ago. With text by Anne Carson. Music by Michael Gordon.

Goldiggers of 2033: Necropolis is a ceremonial ritual for the death of America. An installation of hexagrams and magic symbols line the perimeter of the installation space. A durational performance of ritualized actions and choreography inspired by 1930’s musicals, YouTube videos, and modern dance history act as an arena for exploring antiquity, the natural sciences, fashion, and metaphysics.

Reaction, memory and dream: these are the springs of poetry. May these poems challenge the daily language of our intercourse. — June Jordan, Introduction to SOULSCRIPT