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zoe | juniper, The Other Shore: Future Ancestors
Oct
19
to Oct 23

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.

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zoe | juniper, The Other Shore: Always Now
Oct
5
to Oct 9

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.

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Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines | Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ
Sep
22
to Sep 24

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”.

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Public Access: BLACKBOX WEATHERMXN
Jul
21
to Jul 24

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.

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Degenerate Art Ensemble | Skeleton Flower
Jun
16
to Jun 18

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.

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Fragmented Flow Festival 2022
Jun
16
to Jun 26

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.

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Spectacle Spectacular 17: On the Birds
May
4

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!

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Timothy White Eagle and The Violet Triangle: Revival
Mar
24
to Mar 28

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.

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600 HIGHWAYMEN | A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly
Mar
3
to Mar 12

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.

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Faye Driscoll | Thank You For Coming: SPACE
Jan
20
to Jan 23

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.

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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.

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:

Climate Pledge Arena Events Schedule

McCaw Hall Events Calendar

 

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