Venue: Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance
A FALL FESTIVAL THAT PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF SPACE AND FORM
The New Now Festival is a momentous, transformative return to in-person programming where we invite you to join us in simultaneously exploring and expanding the potentials of our home, the Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance. We are developing new pathways between forms and between the worlds created within the building and the world outside. The festival, beginning September 14, 2021, features work from Beyond This Point, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, and Faye Driscoll.
A FALL FESTIVAL THAT PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF SPACE AND FORM
The New Now Festival is a momentous, transformative return to in-person programming where we invite you to join us in simultaneously exploring and expanding the potentials of our home, the Behnke Center for Contemporary Performance. We are developing new pathways between forms and between the worlds created within the building and the world outside. The festival, beginning September 14, 2021, features work from Beyond This Point, jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham, and Faye Driscoll.
Works in The New Now Festival illustrate our consistent aim of dreaming alongside artists to actualize the full scope of an idea—and offering dynamic ways of engaging and presenting their work to audiences and local communities. In various ways, these works are not contained to On the Boards’ spaces; like much of the work we present, they seek to spill out, with infectious energy and intellectual provocation, into the city, across other spaces, and into discourse.
With The New Now Festival, we are making a thrilling comeback to bringing performers and audiences together in shared space and community—a comeback that’s also, as a seasonal, morph-able event, a bridge to the organization’s future. Now, as OtB enters a new chapter, we also begin to anticipate how we may rethink our building to further our mission of making spaces more catalytic of collaboration and amenable to unbridled formal experimentation, and expand our potential as an accessible, inclusive, and inviting hub where community convenes and forms. A space whose only walls are physical—and where even those are as transparent and flexible as possible.
New Now Festival Performances are supported by the ReStart Washington Grant.
