The New Performance Series is a co-production effort for companies and individual artists who are mounting a full production. The Residency productions (usually world premieres) form the centerpiece of the Incubator Arts Project’s programming, and each season offers a varied collection of live art. The program is curated by Travis Just,Samara Naeymi, Brendan Regimbal and Shannon Sindelar.
Please note that the call for applications happens on the Incubator website each fall. Please join the mailing list via the footer below for updates. Programming is currently established through June 2012. The New Performance series does not offer development space but does include support from the Incubator staff for various aspects of production.
half straddle //
away uniform
part of other forces 2012
Tina Satter and Half Straddle present a preview showing of Away Uniform, a darker, unexpected companion piece to the critically acclaimed In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL. Using her poetically tinged approach to the language and feelings of sports as a textual layer, Tina creates an even more abstracted, but potent world out on the Plains to consider teammates, family, and belief in something more.
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January 6 - 10
Robert Cucuzza & transit authority//
cattywampus
part of other forces 2012
In this line-by-line reinvention of August Strindberg’s classic Miss Julie, writer and director Robert Cucuzza distills an essential tale of class and sexual power dynamics and transports it to modern-day Pittsburgh. Set during a failed car dealership’s liquidation party, Cattywampus traces the rise and fall of Julie, the owner’s wife, as she tries to escape the flaccid clutch of her disinterested husband.
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January 5 - 21
ozet //
common hall village 20
Three hundred years after leaving Earth, on the eve of the Festival of the Fifteenth Generation, the Pioneers of Village 20 gather to watch The Council’s official broadcast. The vodka is free, the band plays anthems and local favorites, and the villagers wonder “Will the soil recover? Are the men in the corner really here to help?” Before the celebration ends, a shocking interruption will expose a fissure in the OZET’s Utopian facade, and the Pioneers will face the beginning of a new, troubled age.
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January 26 - February 4
Woof Nova //
the vanishing play
An immigrant actress finds her brother, lost long ago in a freak circus accident, and enlists his help to make her accent disappear. Ghosts of the past appear and lead them on a ritualistic journey where the boundaries of geography, time, life and death begin to vanish.
February 10 - 26
hoi polloi //
all hands
For All Hands, the OBIE-winning company Hoi Polloi (Three Pianos) combines forces with playwright Robert Quillen Camp and composer Dave Malloy to examine voluntary associations threaded throughout the American landscape -- from Masons to Elks, Shriners to Rotary -- creating a piece filled with ceremony, song and humor depicting a gathering of an imagined secret society.
March 8 - April 1
pl115 //
the ring cycle (parts 1 - 4)
The Ring Cycle (Parts 1-4) slams Wagner's operas into the no-holds-barred world of professional wrestling. PL115 strips out the songs and amps up the testosterone to complete their critically acclaimed adaptation The New York Times lauded for its "genuinely haunting potency.
April 13 - 29
the riot group//
sophie gets the horns
Dead poets, midnight breakfast, girl fights, soft drugs: Sophie Gets the Horns is a dark coming-of-age story set at an elite liberal arts college. Created and performed by The Riot Group with Kristen Bailey, Drew Friedman, McFeely Sam Goodman, Adriano Shaplin, Maria Shaplin, Mary Tuomanen, Stephanie Viola, Rebecca Wright.
May 4 - 20
events in real time //
Express yourself
In this rigorous piece about the dynamics of performance, performer Liz Peterson and director Sean O’Neill explore the limits of media and form. Weaving personal confessions, synchronized video, and a pop sensibility, Express Yourself is a stylized depiction of a performance in progress. The work is framed by a virtuosic performance by Peterson, who navigates the ever-shifting boundaries of the work with disarming vulnerability and charisma. Winner of the 2011 Jury Prize for Risk and Innovation at SummerWorks, Canada’s largest juried theatre festival.
May 25 - 27
Sarah Graalman & Theresa Buchheister //
Destructo Snack
Destructo Snack is Sarah and Theresa. Theresa directs experimental theater and wears jeans she steals from men. Sarah writes heartfelt narrative stories and wears a perfect lip. Taunted by what they have seen always, and particularly of late, Sarah and Theresa got some whiskey and pens. Sarah and Theresa are hardly ladies.
June 1 - 10
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