Through a dance performance and accompanying video installation, Will Rawls invites us to consider the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in the media.
Revival is an immersive ritualistic theater and installation work by the well-known Seattle-based Indigenous artist Timothy White Eagle and his team of collaborators, The Violet Triangle–Paul Budraitis, HATLO, and John Kendall Wilson. This new theater work is rooted in ritual theater and explores one of the oldest and most universal myths, the story of a hero being swallowed alive and then returned, which has appeared around the world. The artists use this ancient story to ponder what it means to be living in our contemporary moment through isolation and longing for community.
Inching towards decensorship, engaging the infinite potential of everyday objects, CUTLASS SPRING is, at once, a manifesto and a heated reflection, an ethnography of sexual understanding and an archaeology of desire.
Piacenza’s 30-year professional performance career and her history as a sex worker become an embodied tapestry of artistic material, a thematic entanglement of sex labor, the pursuit of freedom, and ageism.
Always Now is one of two complementary works within zoe | juniper’s performance, The Other Shore. In Always Now, the audience is guided through different spaces and positions to witness the performances, including lying comfortably on the floor, while multiple dancers move around and above them. With an exciting cast of 5 local and international dancers, Always Now explores perspective, lived experience, and body language as the audience is invited to experience the piece from very different viewpoints.
NOTHINGBEING is a project initiated by choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto, and developed in collaboration with Samita Sinha, David Thomson, and Anna Martine Whitehead. This work investigates ways to embody the presence of nothingness and "being," breathing spaces that we could easily dismiss and consider possibilities for the unfiltered self.
Timothy is commissioned by Artistic Director Rachel Cook for a residency on the planet Mars and sets off for the stars, discovering DANGERS, ALIEN FAUNA, and LONELINESS at a level never before experienced by humankind! Watch him experimentally and "contemporary-ly" perform his way THROUGH SPACE.
Originally aired live on May 20th, 2021 as part of On the Boards’s annual Virtually Spectacular: MARS | PERSEVERANCE. Mission: Seeking signs of ancient and future life and bringing forth new worlds
Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, Awaiting Oblivion... follows the story of AO, an anonymous street artist who has tasked Emmy and Jeffrey with the creation of a performance as a way to share AO’s “temporary solutions” for existing within our collapsing empire. Inspired by creative processes developed by the '60s Fluxus art movement, each “temporary solution” is a visual/textual poem contained in a Flux-kit (a cigar box collaged with stenciled imagery and typewritten letters).
The award-winning "Betroffenheit" is a boundary-stretching hybrid of theatre and dance that explores the psychological states of trauma, grief and addiction. Available on OtB.tv through March 1, 2028.
Enter a world where Black bodies tell their own stories. Where Black love and Black expression prevail. A world where Black stories heal, grow, and transform the lives they touch. Featuring live music, collaboration with a large cast of local artists/performers, and installations, this performance project celebrates Black bodies in space and an emotional engagement with movement. Black Bois is a love letter to Black bodies, minds, and spirits.
