Created and directed by Suz Pontillo & Ayla Wren Wallace
Theatre Off Jackson has been transformed into the Underworld itself for the union of Persephone and Hades — and you are invited!
The Pomegranate Tree extends this honor to you mortals, who are usually forbidden in such divine spaces — but the myths you’ve read about these immortal beings have been mere whispers of the truth you’ll encounter. These gods, in all their conflict and longing, are more like you than you may think… and they’re in desperate need of your wisdom. Can you help them navigate love, death, and perhaps the hardest challenge of all: family? 

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Next Fest NW is Velocity’s experimental new works festival, celebrating contemporary dance and movement-based artists innovating in our region. For this year’s festival, Hannah Krafcik + Emily Jones, Artie Thomas, and Symone Sanz will each be in residency at SFD+I and will make new works focusing on the theme Total Chaos for the show premiering in December 2024. For this iteration, artists were asked to respond the idea of TOTAL CHAOS. “Total”, in this context, meaning “complete” but it also “damaged beyond its value”.  In this time of disarray, disorder, and mess. “Total Chaos” is an investigation of cacophony, grief, order, and purpose.

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