MABOU MINES POP-UP PERFORMANCES

RE/venue is an experiment designed to find new ways to bring our artistic community and audiences together.

This is not a festival that arrives politely at the door. It slips in through the cracks, moves through back corridors, and stands suddenly beside you, whispering a blueprint for dismantling traditional gatekeeping and redistributing value — this year’s gathering becomes less a series of performances than a living archive of interruption, devotion, and restless reinvention. Rooted in the TANK’s egalitarian RE/venue model and Mabou Mines’ 55 year tradition of spontaneous collaborative invention, performance is no longer a singular act but a plural force — musical, physical, oral, verbatim, political, disabled, queer, sanctified, grieving, unscripted, choreographed, conversational, interactive, communal, violent, meditative, and yes, even harmolodic. These are works (not plays, not ballets, not concerts, but something hanging in the interstices of all three) born not of polish but of pressure: fast, light, ephemeral. They are acts of survival, gestures of resistance, offerings of joy.

This is not about answers. It is about the radical art of asking.
Let’s live in the beauty of the question–together.

JULY 23 – AUGUST 3, 2025

Thoughts and Involuntary Mantras |  created by Jack Fuller
Wednesday July 23 at 6:30 PM

Night Keeper |  created by Aaron Landsman
Wednesday July 23 at 8:30 PM

more than ENOUGH |  created by Zainab Musa
Saturday July 26 at 6:00 PM

Creature |  created by Tanya / Tamás Marquardt
Saturday July 26 at 8:00 PM

Time Passes, or My Husband Tells Me You’re in Sharks|  created by The Goat Exchange
Sunday July 27 at 4:00 PM

First Light Sit |  created by Gardiner Comfort
Sunday July 27 at 6:00 PM

Do You Remember Beaver Animation?|  created by Yoshiko Chuma
Sunday July 27 at 8:00 PM | Saturday August 2 at 4:00 PM | Sunday August 3 at 8:00PM

Strings – dark is generous |  created by Tuce Yasak
Monday July 28 at 6:30 PM

Gun Talk |  created by Rachel Gita Karp
Tuesday July 29 at 6:30 PM

Travels with my Best Beloved: Around the World in 80 Countries |  created by Maude Mitchell
Tuesday July 29 at 8:30 PM | Thursday July 31 at 8:30 PM

Bodies and Beds |  created by Damayanti Wallace
Thursday July 31 at 6:30 PM

Ace of Swords |  created by Lydia Jialu Li
Friday August 1 at 6:30 PM | Saturday August 2 at 8:00 PM

First Encounter |  created by Demetris Charlambous & Quique
Friday August  1 at 8:30 PM

Untitled/ DEI Memorial Service |  created by Perel
Saturday August 2 at 6:00 PM

Emily Manzo & Shayna Dunkelman perform Triangle Tower |  created by Emily Manzo
Saturday August 3 at 4:00 PM

Prime Time Time: The Music of Ornette Coleman|  created by Aaron Siegel
Saturday August 3 at 6:00 PM