boiling rain
A gathering built around a medical mannequin named Jeanie, made by a choreographer who has worked as a frontline nurse for ten years. It honors health care workers and closes a grief trilogy.
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Lecture on the History of Skywriting
Paul Lazar plays the sky itself in Anne Carson's text, moving through song, dance, video and phone calls, with imagery by Annie-B Parson. Strange, funny and tender.
CBH Talk | Forgotten History: The Brooklyn Theater Fire of 1876
An author talk and book discussion on a playhouse fire that destroyed one of the city's most prominent theaters in half an hour and killed nearly 300 people.
This Is Unreal
Liz Santoro recounts her life onstage, but some memories are AI-generated and some movements come from an algorithm trained on her dancing. It asks where the body ends and the machine begins.
Nature Is My Co-Curator
Guest curator Stephanie Acosta frames nature as sci-fi, not a crunchy walk. Video projection by Dakota Gearhart, live sound from Kerosene Jones and Julia Santoli, and a listening session with visuals.
Incubations
Andrea Kleine shares three works-in-progress: a book, a performance, and a microbudget feature, all circling nature, personal horrors, and the weirdness of performing. Music by Bobby Previte.
Saturday Salons
Artists, writers, musicians and performers show works-in-process, and the rougher and stranger the better. Jennifer Krasinski curates a lineup with Trinie Dalton and Sibyl Kempson.
Next Dance
A 50-minute work from choreographer Neil Greenberg, built from the performers' own recorded improvisations and set to music Zeena Parkins and James Lo composed together. Greenberg dances in it too.
AUNTS The hAUNTing
An artist-run performance platform stages its first haunted house, a Halloween experiment from a collective that treats art as something that can happen anywhere, from basements to dance floors.
broken (iteration III- for LIC)
A Norwegian duo's farewell to stages, made after they lost their own venue. This version is reworked for The Chocolate Factory Theater and left open, with no set story to follow.
Findlay // Sandsmark broken (iteration III- for LIC)
A farewell piece made as the artists lost their own venue, and a quiet goodbye to stages that disappear. It offers no narrative or stated idea, just an open frame to experience.
