Archives: Projects

  • 73 Seconds

    73 Seconds

    A solo performance about the stories we inherit—and the ones we almost never hear. In 73 Seconds, multimedia artist and performer Jared Mezzocchi cracks open the quiet mysteries of his family’s past.

  • Love Force

    Love Force

    Music meets storytelling as Sunny Jain draws on his autobiography and family history to dive into the concept of “love force” – satyāgraha – embracing your oppressor with compassion.

  • How To Get Free

    How To Get Free

    This three part immersive performance ritual tackles the human condition head-on, revealing how contemporary life bears striking parallels to the enduring curses of Sisyphus, Tantalus and Narcissus.

  • mɔɹnɪŋ [Morning//Mourning]

    mɔɹnɪŋ [Morning//Mourning]

    What would happen on earth after humans disappear?  This experimental opera inhabits a world where humans no longer exist. An ensemble of five vocalist/multi-instrumentalists guide the audience through the changes on Earth as forests grow back, new species evolve, and the human-made world erodes away.

  • Packrat

    Packrat

    Set deep in the Sagebrush Desert, Packrat is a visually stunning puppet-forward play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections and an original score elegantly come together, creating many layers of meaning and emotions.

  • Interglacial

    Interglacial

    Interglacial is a new multidisciplinary dance work through which Laura Peterson explores the urgent topic of global climate emergency. Inspired by minimalist geometric art and Land Art of the 1960s and ‘70s, Interglacial is a dance and visual art installation project about deep time and the dynamics of nature.

  • COMPASS

    COMPASS

    How do systems of power in America today fail us? Based on interviews with American women and gender non-conforming voices across the country, COMPASS spotlights those choosing leadership through empathy,listening, and community-based action. Created by Ripe Time’s Artistic Director Rachel Dickstein, writer DeLanna Studi, movement director nicHi douglas and a diverse collective of artists and…

  • Geppetto

    Geppetto

    Geppetto is a puppeteer who, dealing with the loss of his puppet and life partner, must learn to move on and make art on his own. What ensues is a charming and inventive work as Geppetto finds himself desperately improvising to overcome the challenges of performing solo, while at the same time scrambling to devise…

  • A Hunger Artist

    A Hunger Artist

    Nominated for two Drama Desk awards, this darkly comic, visually-striking adaptation of the Kafka story uses physical theater, Victorian miniatures, puppetry, and a set of simple props to support a powerhouse solo performance. A man sits alone in a cage, starving himself for your entertainment.

  • Ocean Filibuster

    Ocean Filibuster

    Ocean Filibuster puts audiences in the middle of a human/ocean showdown. A single performer – Jennifer Kidwell – plays both Mr. Majority, leader of a future global senate, proposing a bill to end the ocean as we know it; and O, the ocean, who rushes the senate to defend itself.

  • The Real James Bond…Was Dominican

    The Real James Bond…Was Dominican

    This is a true story about Porfirio Rubirosa, Ian Fleming’s inspiration for Bond; and a young Dominican actor-to-be – whose discovery of “Rubi” shakes his very foundation. Set to a live percussion score and immersive projections, The Real James Bond…Was Dominican is a young man’s guide to love, sex, color, code-switching, white-washing, success, fake-it-till-you-make-it, and…