Joseph Keckler | Train With No Midnight
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.
Abby Z and the New Utility | Radioactive Practice
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.
zoe | juniper, The Other Shore: Future Ancestors
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.
zoe | juniper, The Other Shore: Always Now
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.
Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines | Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ
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”.
Public Access: BLACKBOX WEATHERMXN
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
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 | CORE/US
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.
Gender Tender | MELTED RIOT: SPECTRA(L)
MELTED RIOT: SPECTRA(L) uses tactics rooted in dance, punk music, durational performance, and visual art to investigate the effects peaceful and violent forms of support and sabotage have on the bodies, minds, and spirits of the transgender and queer community.
Degenerate Art Ensemble | Skeleton Flower
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 Festival 2022
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.
Dana Michel | CUTLASS SPRING
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 | Other Rooms
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.
Spectacle Spectacular 17: On the Birds
This year’s fundraiser, Spectacle Spectacular 17: On The Birds, will include a cocktail hour, a special performance by Pamela Z in the Merrill Theater, a studio supper, and a lively raise the paddle to raise money for On The Boards’ artist programs and performances. We look forward to celebrating and raising money to support the ever-growing roster of local, national and international artists we love…together and in-person!
Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle: Revival
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.
600 HIGHWAYMEN | A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly
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.
A.I.M by Kyle Abraham: An Untitled Love
Kyle Abraham is one of the most sought-after choreographers and dancers of our time. The bold creator has choreographed for New York City Ballet, NYCB dancer Wendy Whalen, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and more.
Faye Driscoll | Thank You For Coming: SPACE
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.
Plan Your Visit
OtB is located in Uptown at 100 West Roy St, Seattle WA, 98119, on the corner of 1st Ave West and West Roy St.
Parking in the city can be difficult, especially when there are major events at Seattle Center. We recommend public transportation, carpooling, and planning, in order to best enjoy your visit to On the Boards.
Bus Routes: D line, 1, 2, 8, 13, 29, 32
Parking Lots (within 3 blocks of OtB)
U-Park - 1st Ave W / West Roy - $10.00 after 6PM
Diamond - 1st Ave W (between W Roy & Mercer) - $5.00 after 5PM
Republic - 2nd Ave W (behind KFC) - $5.00 after 5PM
Chase Bank Lot - (Mercer / 1st Ave N) - evenings after 6PM, Sat after 2PM, Sun/Holidays All Day - $3.00 per hour
4-Hour Street Parking
Mercer between 1st Ave W and 2nd Ave W
1st Ave W between W Roy and Mercer
1st Ave W between Republican and W Harrison
Coming from out of town? Stay close:
Mediterranean Inn Queen Anne
Inn at Queen Anne
MarQueen Hotel
The Maxwell Hotel
We recommend accounting for traffic and parking availability, based on the activities of other nearby venues:
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