«FRACTURED BONES/LET’S GET LOST» draws on ‘disappearance’ impulses to create a performance that brushes across theater, dance, live music, and video installation to make a slippery and nebulous take on futurism. Iver Findlay//Marit Sandsmark (U.S./Norway) conspire with performer Eric Dyer (Radiohole), performer/video game modder Victor E. Morales, and set designer Ruud van den Akker.

Working from a parable about a ‘disappearer,’ the piece explores the idea of object permanence and performance by way of hard boiled motifs to create a dialectic between the present and the future. The performance is set across a landscape of projections and trashed video monitors revealing a discourse on the natural and synthetic.

Laboratory Theater’s critically acclaimed 2010 work is a meditative, cowboy dance-drama about the spiritual imprint of the windswept landscape of the American west.

Directed by Yvan Greenberg, GIT ALONG LIL DOGGIES commingles elements of William S. Burroughs’ novel The Place of Dead Roads, with short stories by Annie Proulx, country-western line dance, and gay pornography. The performance unfolds against a projected video landscape of repainted Marlboro cigarette TV commercials and within an immersive soundscape incorporating country-western recordings from the 1920s–30s and contemporary new age music for pedal steel guitar. More info »

INVISIBLE/VISIBLE, a dance and digital media project, follows the works of French Philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The movement oscillates in and out of the space and the bodies of dancers Melissa Guerrero, Elise Knudson, Astonkyle McCullough, Emily Moore, and Alice MacDonald. Following a detailed mathematical description of movement scale (by math consultant and music composer Geoff Matters), the dancers dance a movement phrase from a micro scale to the excess—pushing the body to the limit.

Elevator Repair Service is collaborating with playwright Sibyl Kempson on an original work for the stage. Work-in-progress showings will give audiences a first look at this new play.

Your father was Frankenstein but your mother was Radiohole!!!

It’s coming! From the deep dark recesses of the mind of Radiohole, creator of blasphemy! The monster created by a group they called mad is turned loose to strike terror in the hearts of the public! To shock women into uncontrollable hysterics! To prey upon the innocence of children! This is the story you’ve heard about, talked about—completely strange, full of whims and bodily fluids—the spine-tingling, blood-chilling show that stuns your emotions! FRANKENSTEIN! Brought to you in full inflatable hydrocarbon splendor…

The star studded cast of this particular spectacular very limited work-in-progress showing includes: Erin Douglass, Maggie Hoffman, Eric Dyer (the Toogis), Mark Jaynes, Joseph Silovsky (a prince), and appearing live via an incredibly long tube, for the first time ever, the Lord of Chaos himself, Victor Morales.

Featuring Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, Modesto Jimenez, Sibyl Kempson, Chris Kraus, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk, and more.

Erje Ayden is a Turk who writes in English. He has lived in New York since the ’50s. His published works include the underground bestseller The Crazy Green of Second Avenue; Sadness at Leaving, the espionage novel English critics called a masterpiece; The Summer Frank O’Hara Died; and his recent collection of short stories, A Lost Cloud.

“Ayden is the traditional ‘foreigner’… an alien wherever he is, probing and disfiguring ordinary reality, accepting its most peculiar and neurotic aspects as quite unexceptional. Through his eyes we see an ‘Amerika’ as odd as Kafka’s; as funny and absurdly sad.” —Frank O’Hara