NOTHINGBEING is a project that investigates ways to embody the presence of nothingness and "being," breathing spaces that we could easily dismiss and considering possibilities for the unfiltered self. This project addresses the notion of nothingness and "being" from multiple modalities such as moments of highly physical movement, a communal meditation, and internal activation of sensory memories.

What is our first memory of dancing? To write and choreograph Freeway Dance, Japanese dancer Ayaka Nakama asked a number of people close to her to describe their first memory of themselves dancing. Nakama treats these memories as choreography in order to reconstruct these movements with her own body.

Bear witness to stories from varied identities weaved together in celebration of difference and unique individuality. Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence incorporates dance, Hawaiian chant and percussion, original compositions for cello, and multimedia scenic design to examine ancestry, home, and belonging.

UN-[TITLED] is an immersive, multisite-specific project that centers on the ways in which communities are displaced by gentrification. Guests are guided through a series of engagements and reckonings with community meaning, cultural memory, and healing in the Central and Chinatown-International Districts of Seattle.

Be seduced and challenged all at once through a combination of pleasure, song, and spectacle. What happens when three oddballs take on a world obsessed with couples and have a go at the social geometry of femme triangles in a square masc world?

Faye Driscoll returns to On the Boards with a piece that’s well worth the wait!  Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is the final performance in her celebrated Thank You For Coming series. Driscoll considers theater one of the last secular social spaces, where the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnection is made palpable.

A trip to Paris, Hamburg, Michigan, and Manhattan, all in one night. Joseph Keckler and an intimate musical ensemble move through a series of vignettes-- each like a stop on a late-night train-- and circle The Crossroads, a place of danger and possibility.

Take a dive into the unknown with Abby Z. RADIOACTIVE PRACTICE is the newest evening-length work by New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award-winning choreographer Abby Zbikowski and her company Abby Z and the New Utility.

Created at the intersection of dance, installation, video, and technology, The Other Shore is presented in two distinct sections and seeks to spark a simple shift in the structure of traditional performance to alter the relationship between audience and dancer. This work aims to expose vulnerabilities of performers and audiences, as well as examine the experience of seeing and being seen by expanding the possibilities of perception.

Created at the intersection of dance, installation, video, and technology, The Other Shore is presented in two distinct sections and seeks to spark a simple shift in the structure of traditional performance to alter the relationship between audience and dancer. This work aims to expose vulnerabilities of performers and audiences, as well as examine the experience of seeing and being seen by expanding the possibilities of perception.

RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance and a perverse triangle of shifting power that seeks to be unfaithful to both minimalism and postmodern dance’s claims to so-called “neutrality”.

On the Boards is bringing together performers and animators to create a Digital Performance Cohort: Public Access: BLACKBOX WEATHERMXN. We’ve assembled 4 teams of 1 performer and 1 animator apiece and those are devising 10-minute pieces using the weather forecast technical format described below.

Allie Hankins’ By My Own Hand, Part 1: GHOSTING dissects the inner monologue of a performer through questioning the boundary lines of the audience-performer relationship.

Vanessa Goodman (Vancouver) considers the embodiment of sound and how to generate artistic material in real-time that creates a direct correlation between movement and sound. "Core/Us" is a captivating new group work from Action at a Distance.

Degenerate Art Ensemble’s (Seattle) richly visual performance playfully considers three fairy tales—The Fitcher’s Bird, The Wild Swans, and The Red Shoes—that were read to the artist as a child, as a ritual for the healing of trauma and the realization of personal power.

Fragmented Flow is a chance to lose yourself in a world pieced together through exciting experimental performances by PNW artists. This year, OtB brings together four artists for an intimate investigation of different concepts of identity and relationship. Through a wide array of performance disciplines, you’ll explore your inner human psyche, memories and more.

Canadian artist Dana Michel disrupts audiences’ expectations through improvisation, comedy, hip-hop, and other methods of appropriation and collage. Michel explores physicality and stereotypical identity politics.

Pamela Z will perform an evening set of solo works for voice and electronics. Her performance evenings combine live electronic processing, sampled sound, and rear-projected video.

A ritual performance descends deep in the belly of the whale, seeking a world of possibility. We are swallowed and reside in the belly of a whale. We seek wonder in this strange collective isolation. Together, we breathe each other in, we are breathed and breathing through the Whale, La Baliene.

Following a successful run of Obie Award-winning 600 HIGHWAYMEN’s A THOUSAND WAYS (Parts One and Two), On the Boards is excited to present the culminating installment, A THOUSAND WAYS (Part Three): An Assembly, an intimate return to the act of communal gathering.

Faye Driscoll’s Thank You For Coming: Space is the final performance in Driscoll’s celebrated Thank You For Coming series—which includes Attendance and Play. Driscoll considers theater one of the last secular social spaces, where the vulnerability and complexity of human interconnection is made palpable.

The Future is 0, presented by On the Boards and Sub Pop, is back for 3 nights — LIVE and in-person at On the Boards! This cult-comedy live game show has artist ­contestants competing in a dizzying array of mental, physical, and psychological challenges. 

Hosted by Clay Buff and her counterpart producer Kat, The Future is 0 subverts the classic game show trope of a stuffy male host in a corny tie by swapping it for two manic women best friends creating the rules in their own universe