This interdisciplinary work combines storytelling, drawing, and movement as an exercise in loving, remembering, keeping, being, and forgiving.
Testing² is an experimental dance theater performance, weaving together snippets of text, song, and audio sound bites from renowned celebrity artists. In this 3rd iteration of Testing2, actor/dance theatre artist Soomi Kim collaborates with choreographer Laura Peterson to intricately dissect and reassemble these recordings, delving into the spontaneous conversations and unplanned utterances – from the absurd to the profound and the spaces in between.
June 16th at 7:00 PM
Join us on June 16th to experience the performance of "Pansy" by Dauris Martinez. Informed by the resilience of the queer community and through the context of rest as a form of freedom and resistance, Martinez explores the ways in which insults are reclaimed and transformed.
and then there was Eve... is a multi-disciplinary project that manifests itself through a performative concert where music plays a central role mixed with simple elements of theatrical dramaturgy.
4/06 & 4/08, 2022 at 7:00 PM
Piece of Mind is a reflective project on the process of creation, how the past influences the present, and how shared experience manifests differently in every individual.
In this multimedia concert of vocal chamber music, Mezzo-soprano Sishel Claverie and friends, explore the immigrant experience and what it is to be always straddling two countries.
“would you set the table if I asked you to?” is an action performance that explores the distinction between human and animal. Made up of dance, ritualistic gestures, illusion, and set with the backdrop of a dinner, “would you set the table if I asked you to?” creates an intimate, unique space where the audience has no choice but to become a participant. Actors scream and grunt, they morph between different roles, through different phases, and different states of being human in order to question the binary of human and animal and ask about the subversive, grief-filled shades in between. What results is a dinner party like no other.
Created by Hillary Gao and presented as a work-in-progress showing in collaboration with movement director Marlaina Garcia Riegelsberger.
A theatrical installation exploring the relationship between the viewers, the actors, and the performance itself, developed from stimuli generated before the moment, in the moment and after.
What is collaboration? What dictates the devising process? And is that process limited to those artists directly involved, or can it be extended to incorporate the minds of the broader community?
Through this ongoing piece, we invite you into the creative process of devising, and encourage you to curate your own viewing experience through the tools we provide. What you leave behind, may alter the piece for the next viewer.
Can we, when exploring this together, lean into this now all too familiar feeling of sharing a collective experience, alone.
A theatrical installation exploring the relationship between the viewers, the actors, and the performance itself, developed from stimuli generated before the moment, in the moment and after.
What is collaboration? What dictates the devising process? And is that process limited to those artists directly involved, or can it be extended to incorporate the minds of the broader community?
Through this ongoing piece, we invite you into the creative process of devising, and encourage you to curate your own viewing experience through the tools we provide. What you leave behind, may alter the piece for the next viewer.
Can we, when exploring this together, lean into this now all too familiar feeling of sharing a collective experience, alone.
GREEN is a live performance collaboration between YES Theater and the brand new groovy musical group Grass Future Society. Taking the form of a pared down concert of Grass Future Society's upcoming album GREEN, there will be recycled-mask dancers telling the abstracted narrative of the album, which is essentially about being stuck inside and looking out the window to see the world on fire. (Sound familiar!?) The project is grounded in finding the joy and beauty in community, and to represent the possibility of proving the opposite of the narrative of isolation and destruction.
GREEN is a live performance collaboration between YES Theater and the brand new groovy musical group Grass Future Society. Taking the form of a pared down concert of Grass Future Society's upcoming album GREEN, there will be recycled-mask dancers telling the abstracted narrative of the album, which is essentially about being stuck inside and looking out the window to see the world on fire. (Sound familiar!?) The project is grounded in finding the joy and beauty in community, and to represent the possibility of proving the opposite of the narrative of isolation and destruction.
