Javaad Alipoor
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
September 12-14, 2024 | 8pm
West Coast Premiere
Internationally renowned British-Iranian artist, Javaad Alipoor, takes you on a wild ride down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and murder mystery podcasts. This interdisciplinary work sorts through the tangle of digital information about the mysterious murder of an Iranian pop icon to reveal the limits of search engines in this post-colonial world.
Mouthwater Festival
Vanessa Hernández Cruz
October 10, 2024 | 8pm
Presented in partnership with Velocity Dance Center
Mouthwater Festival is a 3-week, city-wide fringe festival of Disability arts, with 26 events including meals, movement workshops, parties, artist socials, and performances!
Timothy White Eagle
Indian School
November 14-16, 2024 | 8pm
Avant Premiere
Timothy White Eagle, a Seattle-based visual and performance artist, returns to OtB to present a deeply personal performance about displacement and identity, tracing the impact of America's history of cultural genocide. Through it, he confronts trauma, celebrates resilience, and emphasizes the importance of reclaiming Indigenous experiences.
Juni One Set: Degenerate Art Ensemble with Senga Nengudi and yuniya edi kwon
Boy mother / faceless bloom
December 12-14, 2024 | 8pm
West Coast Premiere
Threading mythology and autobiography, while drawing from the diverse lineages of queer, anti-colonial, and care-based artistic practices, Boy mother / faceless bloom tells a story of transformation, transgression, and the formation of new transcestral lines.
Paul Budraitis
I Love That For You
January 16-19, 2025 | 8pm & Sat-Sun 5pm
West Coast Premiere
Berlin-based theater artist Paul Budraitis returns to Seattle, his once long-time home, to share this intimate, honest, and deeply moving performance. It’s a community offering that invites the audience to notice what death can teach us in hopes of generating more life from the lives we are already living.
Shamel Pitts | TRIBE
BLACK HOLE – Trilogy And Triathlon
February 6-8, 2025 | 8pm
West Coast Premiere
Deeply inspired and infused by the spirit of Afrofuturism, this contemporary Gesamtkunstwerk combines dance, original sound, video projection, and light design in a tale of vitality and tenderness, darkness and light, personal growth and collective empowerment. Co-created by the award-winning movement artist Shamel Pitts and his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE, it marks the final installment in the BLACK Series triptych.
Dynasty Handbag
Titanic Depression
March 27-29, 2025 | 8pm
This hilarious reimagining of the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic stars Dynasty Handbag - the peerlessly subversive, wacky, and dystopian alter ego of LA-based artist Jibz Cameron. The performance wields animation, soundscapes and a stunning video backdrop by filmmaker Mariah Garnett to address issues of class, mortality and runaway consumer-driven climate disaster.
Miguel Gutierrez
Super Nothing
May 1-3, 2025 | 8pm
Commission
How can a dance speak to the overwhelming and constant grief that undergirds our lives? This is one of many questions raised in the latest work by the award-winning bicoastal multimedia artist, Miguel Gutierrez. Thinking about movement in both the dance and geographic sense of the word, Super Nothing engages with our ideas about place/home, time, history, and the strengths and failings of “community.”
dani tirrell
Leviticus or Love and to walk amongst HUMANS! Book II
May 29 - 31, 2025
Commission & World Premiere, presented in partnership with CD Forum and Velocity Dance Center
Seattle’s legendary dancer/choreographer dani tirrell brings the club to heaven in the second installment of the widely acclaimed Leviticus or Love project. Centering around Black and brown bodies leaving this world and entering the "afterlife," this performance transforms the Kubota Garden into a divine landscape to imagine what utopia would look like if Black bodies were free to imagine.
NW New Works 2025
June 12-14, 2025
NW New Works returns by popular demand to showcase the most daring, cutting-edge performances in our region once again!