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"Live" is that moment during a performance when you experience something new, fresh, different, and exciting.

It is the moment when we recognize that we are in new territory. We have a passion for that experience and for the artists who create it - and we want to share it with you.

It is challenge to place contemporary performance in the typical categories of dance, music, and theater, the boundaries in the work are wonderfully impossible to find. Instead, we like to group them by the kind of experience or feeling that the artist sets out to create. We have organized the shows this year into four sets of these experiences.

Other Places groups work that is inspired by a place - like a pool, a cemetery, or a hotel room. On Stages groups contemporary theater that is driven by text or narrative. Bodies in Motion groups work that starts from the physicality of the body. And Performance Installations groups work that is based in a visual or conceptual art practice - often a performance contained in an installation. We have also organized a remarkable set of music shows over the second weekend of the festival, a program of works in progress and a program of shows by emerging artists.

It is a rich body of work that we are proud of, and we hope you see it all. All in all, it's a festival rich in that feeling of "Live".

Nick Stuccio
Producing Director

The choreography is the moving medium among the visual and musical elements. The performance space serves as a canvas.

Shen Wei - company founder and choreographer, dancer, painter, and designer - Shen Wei creates dance for the 21st century, fusing movement, theater, Chinese opera, painting, and sculpture in search of new communication.  [More...]

Here is a dance theater collision between sources as disparate as Anton Chekhov, the U.S. Space Program, Bruce Nauman, and a stuffed owl.

Our Little Sunbeam is the latest full-length work from Dayna Hanson and Gaelen Hanson, the Seattle-based choreographers behind 33 Fainting Spells. Hanson and Hanson, related by sensibility, have worked together since 1994, combining dance, text, music, and video into their own inimitable language.  [More...]

“My dance is not a physical dance, but a dance of consciousness.”

So Akira Kasai describes his own transformational style of butoh. An acclaimed master of this Japanese art form, Kasai also incorporates elements of Western dance traditions into his performances – and startles with his flights of agility, speed, and spontaneity.  [More...]

The members of a love triangle ask, sing, and scream: how far have we really come from Neanderthal times?

Writer, director, and composer Richard Maxwell returns to the Festival with another of his musical theater works on a protean theme. Maxwell’s productions, among the most highly acclaimed and toured in contemporary theater, are known for the emotionally pared down presentation...  [More...]

New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) imagines theater as a metaphysical playground, and to prove it, they spin the story of Don Juan into another dimension.

The “multi-layered wonderment” that is an NPL performance comes from a singular combination of visual imagery, award-winning soundscapes, meticulous stagecraft, and muscular physicality.  [More...]

Nestled in the anonymous comfort of the modern hotel, the pool is a dangerous site of interaction and exposure.

Known for their vibrant wit and all-out physicality, Headlong Dance Theater takes a new creative plunge – into the possibilities for movement and meaning presented by a hotel pool.  [More...]