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A Festival of New Work
FESTIVAL LINE UP
JUNE 5TH / 6TH / 7TH AT 7:30pm at HISTORIC ALBERTA HOUSE / 5131 Ne Alberta Street
JUNE 12TH / 13TH / 14TH AT 7:30pm at BODYVOX / 1201 NW 17th
THURSDAY(s) JUNE 5th & 12th @ 7:30pm
Faces in the Mountain By Lisa Swartz
When family is gone or was never there, they carve a valley of yearning in our psyche. If we follow the valley upstream, will we find mountain meadows of hope?
From Colorado to Yosemite Valley to the center of the Earth, dancer and storyteller Lisa Swartz takes viewers across raw landscapes of longing, mystery, and adventure to find elusive jewels of insight and fulfillment revealed by the only by turning tides of time.
Ready your heart for this unique and spirited ode to all voyagers still quietly searching for home.
Ripples in Contrasting Light By Meredith Sevy
What lies in between? What lies at the edges? Why does it matter?
Meredith sees the contrast of extremes, reflects on one discovery of loving herself, and invites the audience to consider how they live within their body and love themselves. She seeks to push comfort zones, not to increase discomfort but instead to expand those zones, to discover and create more comfort in new places.
Samudāya By Sidney Novak
Samudāya is a multimedia performance that viscerally depicts the phenomenon of compulsive thought and behavior, which ranges from the ritual cycles of religion to individual compulsive thought, and explores the conflict between free will and predetermined action, revealing the inescapability of patterned and cyclical behavior and how it governs us.
FRIDAY(S) JUNE 6th & 13th @7:30pm
Why are you so quiet? By Danielle Higbee
Who are You? How would your family describe you? Your friends? How would you describe You? Does the truth lie somewhere in the difference? Can multiple truths coexist? Why are you so quiet is a live memoir exploring identity and how it fluctuates over a life. This piece is a speculation on the fringes between inner and outer experience. Through reflection and autobiographical storytelling, Danielle questions who has the control in deciding who You are.
You’re the One in Here By: Sophina Flores
"You're the One in Here" a new musical with lyrics by Sophina Flores and music by Daye Thomas. Three children, Lorena, Jem, and Gia live in a hallway where shadows stretch too long and doors don’t always lead where they should. In a bedroom with the door removed. At a dining table where silence carries more weight than words. Something is always watching, always waiting. They learn that fear can be inherited. They sense something in the dark but are told it isn’t there. The right things feel so, so wrong, and fractured lullabies evoke the childhood they never get to have. Everyone’s parents are like this. Déjà vu. They turn around and realize that the thing they were running from was inside the house all along.
Water Makes Me Honest By Maddy Schultz
Water Makes Me Honest weaves together personal narrative, movement, and ecology into a meditation on identity, memory, and transformation. Through storytelling and play, Maddy explores their nonbinary experience alongside the quiet resilience of fungi and the healing properties of water. With moments of confession and historical reflection, the piece blurs the lines between past and present, science and spirit, isolation and connection. From Catholic school to Tonka trucks, the journey is as expansive as it is intimate. This piece asks the audience; What rules are you still following? What happens when you let them go? Water Makes Me Honest is a celebration of fluidity, queerness, and becoming—a love letter to soft rebellion and the evolving self.
First Times By Laura Cannon
Of course, we all know there is a first time for everything, but have you ever considered that anything can be a first time for something? In First Times Laura Cannon will guide you through the mental gymnastics that she uses to keep dreaming big even when the road ahead doesn’t look all that promising. A parfait of humor, movement and hazy Slacker-era memories, First Times will ask the heavy questions and answer none of them. At least it will be fun. Hey, if the existential dread doesn’t get us, the high-fructose corn syrup certainly will.
SATURDAY(s) JUNE 7th & 14th @7:30pm
Delicious Poison By Katheryn Shamrell
This piece follows Katheryn on her journey through life inspired by her mother and accompanied by Shakespeare. The Bard’s language and stories buoyed her in times both contrary and joyful, As Katheyn’s story unfurls, we wonder how they both allowed her to survive and thrive.
no one tells you By Sam Cruz
no one tells you moves through the vulnerability of the unknown. Uncertain but undeniable truths to someday accept.
Ritual By
Aberdeen Stuart
Ritual explores high demand cult like groups and what it’s like to grow up in one. Reflecting on a childhood spent in Masonic lodges and performing ritual works, now Aberdeen bursts forth to reveal the secrets of a secret society. Where is the present truth in the hidden world of the past? Here is their truth, as they felt it.
The Cherry on Top By Leiana Petlewski
I hope you're hungry-- Cherry's got a pie in the oven! Join Cherry as she cleans, reminisces, polishes forks, ponders the collapse of our solar system, reveals secrets, panics about the pressure to figure out what she wants in life, and wonders why no one can make chicken'n'dumplings as good as her Mom's, all before the timer goes off and the pie is done. And who knows? If Hubby isn't home in time, you may just get a piece of her famous homemade pie yourself! I've heard they're to die for...