Performances

On the Boards presents performances across 2 programming series. The Inter/National Series features some of the most innovative artists from around the world working in dance, music, theater, and multimedia performance. The Northwest Series commissions, produces and presents evening-length works by some of the most talented and experimental artists and companies from our region. Projects are curated by artistic director Lane Czaplinski, 1-2 years prior to being seen in Seattle.

Read previews of the season by aritstic director Lane Czaplinski: Inter/National Series or Northwest Series

For information on peformances by SuttonBeresCuller and Merce Cunningham visit our Special Events page.

 

Angélica Lidell

Angélica LiddellTe haré invencible con mi derrota

Oct 6 - Oct 9 • Inter/National Series

Note: There is no performance on Sat, Oct 8.

Angélica Liddell makes her North American debut with a solo work weaving together original text, a blowtorch and a paintball gun in an homage to the brief life of the British...

Temporary DistortionNewyorkland

Nov 17 - Nov 20 • Inter/National Series

Performance Prospectus: A complete guide to Newyorkland [PDF]

An assemblage of...

11/12 Season | 12 Minutes Max

Dec 11 - Dec 12 • 12 Minutes Max

12 Minutes Max is curated by Kyle Loven (Image Theater Artist and Puppetteer) and Alyson McCrink ($12 for 12 Minutes Max Guest Curator)
Tickets available at the door.

Joesphine’s Echopraxia...

Rabih Mroué

Rabih MrouéLooking for a missing employee

Jan 19 - Jan 21 • Inter/National Series

Please note: We have added a Saturday, January 21, matinee at 4pm of Looking for a Missing Employee.

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Mariano PensottiEl pasado es un animal grotesco

Feb 9 - Feb 12 • Inter/National Series

It’s 1999 in Buenos Aires. Mario, Laura, Pablo, and Vicky are in their mid-twenties and ready for careers, love, and adulthood. Over the next decade, Argentina’s economy will collapse and their lives will take a series of unexpected turns. In...

tEEth

tEEthMake/Believe

Mar 1 - Mar 3 • Northwest Series

Altered realities, social anxieties and obsessive thought are explored through the intense but precise movement, soundscaping and video of tEEth. Working with 4 dancers/vocalists, the company pushes the boundaries of technology by incorporating...

Michelle Ellsworth

Michelle EllsworthPhone Homer

Mar 15 - Mar 18 • Inter/National Series

For years, performance and dance artist Michelle Ellsworth has been working through her chosen medium of the hamburger as a vehicle for illustrating her theories concerning philosophy, science, religion and art. Accordingly, the burger shares...

Mark Haim

Mark Haimx2

Mar 29 - Apr 1 • Northwest Series

Two radically different approaches to perceptions of time are combined in this diptych of dance with a cast of 14. The evening features an extended version of This Land is Your Land—a hit at the 2010 NW New Works Festival—where dance...