PAST SHOWS
Terce: A Practical Breviary
Terce: A Practical Breviary is a radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 AM mass and an adaptation that reimagines the face of the “Holy Spirit” through the lens of the Divine Feminine. Sung by a community choir of 30-plus caregivers and makers, it is a wild meditation/celebration of the sacred mothers alive in all of […]
January 10 & 11 at 7:30pm, 17*-19, 24-26 30 - Feb 2 at 7pm | January 13, 20, 27, Feb 3 at 9am & 3pm | January 14 & 28, Feb 4 at 3pm | 60 Min
Chornobyldorf
After surviving a series of disasters, the remaining descendants of humanity find themselves in a post-societal world following the death of capitalism, opera, and philosophy. Wandering amongst the ruins of nuclear power plants, abandoned churches, theaters, and galleries, they try to recreate lost civilization through archeological performance-rituals, universal symbols, and signs which are ultimately misinterpreted […]
January 11, 13, 15, 18-20 at 7pm | January 14 & 21 at 2pm | 125 Min
The Promise
“The Promise” is a captivating modern song cycle that explores profound themes of identity, origin, motherhood, and the complexities of human relationships in our modern era. Created by the internationally acclaimed Dutch singer-songwriter Wende in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre and composed together with renowned English composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, “The Promise” creates a rich […]
January 10, 11, 13 at 9pm | January 13 & 14 at 4pm | 100 min
Angel Island
Between 1910 and 1940, many Chinese immigrants flowed through the immigration station on Angel Island inside San Francisco Bay, facing mass discrimination under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, with few exceptions. With music by acclaimed Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo, Angel Island revisits this chapter of American history with a poignant multimedia experience scored for voices and […]
January 11-13 at 7:30pm | 90 Min
Adoration
Adapted from the original film written and directed by Atom Egoyan, Adoration follows Simon, an orphaned high school student. As part of a dramatic writing exercise, Simon’s teacher encourages him to appropriate details from a historical terrorist attack as an event perpetrated by his parents. When his story goes viral, Simon uses the hysteria within his […]
January 12-13 and 18-20 at 8pm | January 14 at 5pm | 90 Min
Malinxe
Created by Indigenous composers Autumn Chacon (Diné – Navajo/Chicana) and Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache), Malinxe is a contemporary retelling of the myth of La Llorona, or “the weeping woman.” Tracing back to 1550, La Llorona is well-known in American Southwest and Latin American cultures as a vengeful spirit who roams near bodies of water, […]
January 20 at 5:30pm | 30 min
Vodalities, Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice
Vodalities, Paradigms of Consciousness for the Human Voice seeks to illuminate the different modalities of the vocal arts utilized by not only composer and performing artist Shodekeh Talifero, but vocalists all over the world. Composed specifically for Sō Percussion, the two movements focus on the vocal modalities, or “vodalities” of Breath Art, Vocal Percussion, and Beatboxing. […]
January 10-21
Whiteness
A series of chants, rants and songs reflecting the silliness, severity and anxieties of skin color. Performed by a chorus of harmonizing floating heads, Paul Pinto’s funny inner dialogue on self-identification is dizzily designed by Kameron Neal.
Available January 10-21 | 28 min
SWANN
Swann is an digital aria based on the legacy of William Dorsey Swann, a lesser known but crucial historical figure born into slavery in 1860. Swann came to be the first self-identified “queen of drag” in the US. He organized drag balls in Washington, DC in the latter part of the 19th century, and his […]
January 10-21