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December 5–5, 2026
Ghost Walks
Karen Kandel and Rinde Eckert haunt the stage in this duet that hovers among worlds: the world at large and the unseen world, dance and theater, music and text, life as it is lived and imagined. Ghost Walks with them and in them as above, so below. Dec 5, 2026 Free Showing
December 17–17, 2026
Etudes
A philosophical convening of characters engaged in a recalling of crimes against humanity and its effect on their personal, historical and psychological development by Carl Hancock Rux. December 17, 2027. Free Showing
January 14–23, 2027
CREATURE
CREATURE reclaims Hungarian folk dance through a transmasculine body, transforming inherited structures of gender, history, lineage, and belonging. Under the Radar January 14-23.
January 14–23, 2027
fly baby fly
fly baby fly is a dance where grief, desire, memory, and queer embodiment collide, transforming loss into transcendence. Under the Radar January 14-23.
CURRENT SEASON — PAST SHOWS
April 10–10, 2026
Tamar-kali | The Swann
This contemporary chamber opera is inspired by the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved
gender bending denizen of our nation’s capital.
gender bending denizen of our nation’s capital.
March 22–22, 2026
Thank You, Amina!
Part listening session, part birthday celebration, for NEA Jazz Master and Jazz Foundation Fellow Amina Claudine Myers. Sunday March 22, 2026 | 3 – 8pm
March 13–19, 2026
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Mabou Mines Cinema
Mabou Mines Cinema is an Anthology Film Archives is a series exploring the films made by the company, and by its artists and collaborators, from 1968-2008. March 13-19, 2026.
January 8–25, 2026
ALL THAT FALL
All That Fall, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis is staged as a visual and sonic landscape, a diorama from which spills "a text written to come out of the dark.” Under the Radar January 8-25.
December 5–6, 2025
Melanie Dyer | Incalculable Likelihood
Incalculable Likelihood is a jazz oratorio -- a sonic meditation on Black being, memory, existential resilience and transcendence. Dec 5 & 6 @ 7:30
October 3–3, 2025
Mary Prescott | First Bite
First Bite offers a taste of interdisciplinary performance artist Mary Prescott’s explorations of sense memory and storytelling through her Thai mother’s family recipes. October 3 @ 7:30pm
May 15–18, 2025
This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time
This Like a Dream Keeps Other Time integrates art and science to foster a unique and immersive journey that explores the complex landscape of dreams and the emotional and biological effects of communal practices, and redefines the boundaries of performance art.
April 16–20, 2025
Rainbird - World Premiere
Rainbird is an opera adaptation of the novel Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room by the celebrated New Zealand author Janet Frame co-created by Composer Aaron Siegel and Librettist/Director Mallory Catlett.
February 27, 2025
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Moi-même
Long lost sole feature film of the late avant-garde theater legend Lee Breuer (1937-2021). Shot in 1968 in Paris and abandoned later that year, the project was resurrected by Breuer’s son, filmmaker Mojo Lorwin, who began restoring and re-imagining the unfinished film in the last year of his father’s life. February 27, 2025 @ L'Alliance Florence Gould Theater
January 8–16, 2025
Rich With History and other stuff you say at a haunted house
A new devised theater performance by Marcella Murray, David Neumann, and Tei Blow of Advanced Beginner Group that extends the ensembles’ years-long exploration of race and relationship mixed with sly humor, unexpected dances, and plantation tours. Performing Jan 8 - 16
December 16–16, 2024
SUITE/space 2025| THE REMIX
One-Night-Only Performance Party! DJ, dancing, food and free-flowing vibrations with sneak peeks of new offerings from past SUITE/space artists and special guests.
December 11–13, 2024
SUITE/space 2025 | Mary Prescott | Sunder
Sunder: Studies in Grief and Ease connects the artist’s present day lived experiences with those inherited from her ancestral feminine, transmuting Thai mythologies, spirituality and cultural rites.
October 8, 2024
Janet Frame at 100
Janet Frame at 100: Celebrating the Experimentalist Author and the upcoming World Premiere Opera RAINBIRD created by Director Mallory Catlett and Composer Aaron Siegel. Tuesday October 8, 2024 | 6:30 - 8:30pm