Sneak Peek
25/26 SEASON
San Cha
Inebria Me
September 11-13, 2025
Inebria me is a new, experimental opera by acclaimed LA-based musician and performance artist San Cha that queers cisgender and heteronormative tropes of telenovela and celebrates the liberating power of ascendant relationships. Led by a visionary bicoastal queer of color creative team, Inebria me’s live sound score of ranchera, cumbia, punk, classical, and electro merges with bold vocal performances and innovative theatrical designs to create a powerful political and poetic statement for opera’s modern stage.
Eiko Otake & Wen Hui
What Is War
October 9-11, 2025
Dance luminaries Wen Hui and Eiko Otake create a complex tapestry of language, movement, and video to share their personal memories related to war. As they move together, their bodies intimately support and absorb each other’s stories, inviting the audience to consider their own relationship to war on both a historic and personal scale.
Aya Ogawa
The Nosebleed
November 13-15, 2025
The Nosebleed is an intimate autobiography that explores playwright/director Aya Ogawa’s fractured relationship with their long-deceased and enigmatic father. Through a series of turbulent, absurd, and poignantly comic vignettes, the play explores the seemingly insurmountable cultural and generational gap between Aya and their father, and the questions they face in their own parenthood today.
Bebe Miller, Maurya Kerr, Rachael Lincoln & Leslie Seiters
In Tandem: A Trio of Duets
December 18-20, 2025
Ogemdi Ude
MAJOR
January 29-31, 2026
MAJOR is a dance theater project exploring the history and physicality of majorette dance, with six Black femmes embodying the movement of their girlhood to answer the questions of their present, pursuing the intimate journey of returning to bodies they thought lost. Through investigations of physical memory, sexuality, and sensuality, MAJOR preserves and proliferates the creative practices and stories of the folks who taught us how to be proudly Black and proudly femme.
John Jarboe
Rose: You Are Who You Eat
February 19-21, 2026
Once upon a vine, John Jarboe’s aunt revealed that John not only had a twin sister in the womb, but that John consumed her: “You ate her. That’s why you are the way you are.” This was a lot for John to swallow! In this musical shrine to the consumed twin, named Rose, John welcomes you into a feast of gender through song, storytelling, and a full plate of wordplay.
Amy O'Neal
Again There is No Other, The Remix
March 26-28, 2026
Again, there is no Other: The Remix is a dark and joyful ritual, conjuring an anecdote to the fears of the Feminine in patriarchal culture. Through a kaleidoscopic movement structure merging the cypher (the circle), the nightclub, and contemporary performance tropes, six physically multilingual femme identified dancers explore touch, support, the imperative of connection, the tensions of identity, and the embrace of difference.
Monique Jenkinson
How Do I Look?
May 7-9, 2026
In her drag guise Fauxnique, and with her unique combination of precise physicality, irreverent humor and gutsy vulnerability, Jenkinson asks the most vain, mundane and loaded question: How Do I Look? This performance throws itself into the space, sometimes a chasm, between how we see ourselves and how the world sees us. It also considers the methodology of looking: by what means do we see the world and each other?
Northwest New Works
June 4-6, 2026
Since 1983, the NW New Works Festival has been a vibrant celebration of artists from all performance disciplines, showcasing the dynamic arts community of the Pacific Northwest.