In collaboration with Justin Cimino (Director, Founder & Artistic Director of Pigeonholed Theater) HOPE SALAS & SMASHWORKS DANCE devised a work highlighting the contributions of the female clowns/performers of the silent era.  Inspired by James ThiĂ©rrĂ©e, Pina Bausch & Bill Irwin, Hope Salas Productions & Smashworks Dance Co. intend to intersect the control and […]
THE TRIP presents Paradise. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise: a coming-of-age story that deals with dreams, disillusionment, education, and privilege. Critics have pronounced the novel a failure, but it’s also about failure, following a young man’s quest to get to college; his love-soaked slide through college; his booze-soaked reckoning with disappointment after college; and […]
Artistic Director, Gia Forakis and Associate Artistic Director, Darya Gauthier presented an Open Studio showing of their newest work, LOVE IN SPACE-TIME: 12 Scenes in Re-Memory. LOVE IN SPACE-TIME: 12 SCENES IN RE-MEMORY is an original, performance project written by Gia Forakis and under development by GF&CO. The script is an experimental non-linear narrative that aims to create an experience […]
Israeli puppeteer Moti Brecher presented an overview of his work in puppetry as part of our Celebrate the Artist Series. He also presented Puppets in Conflict, a lecture on his research into the ways in which Puppet Theatre serves as a platform for processing and coping with everyday life in a conflicted environment, in this […]
Nanci left and never came back. An investigation of an investigation — a real-life, real-time dig into the remnants of a life.Created by Annie Hoeg & Ilana KhaninFriday, May 31 & Saturday, June 1, 2019 ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Annie Hoeg – Select credits include I Was Unbecoming Then (Ars Nova ANT Fest), Slow Field (Theaterlab), 12th Night… (The Brick), Gobstopper (The Tank) and Witness […]
Voices Inside is an inspirational writing and theater program at Northpoint Training Center, a medium security prison near Danville, KY that uses theater arts and creative thinking to increase communication skills, build self-esteem and humanize and enrich the lives of those closed off behind bars. It was founded by filmmaker Robby Henson, playwright Elizabeth Orndorff […]
The first Round the Block! was held FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2019. Audiences began the journey on a rolling basis, with entry times at 5:00, 5:30, 6:00 and 6:30 PM. Partner venues for this edition of Round the Block included: Chashama supports artists by partnering with property owners to transform unused real estate into space to create […]