Mixing Room

Mixing Room is a site-specific performance experiment that investigates the intersections between person and machine. Created by Lauren Kravitz in collaboration with four movement artists and two sound artists, the project is a response to the performance site, the mixing room of what was formerly the Boedeker Ice Cream Factory. The work reflects the room’s history as a site for cyclical, repetitive processes used to blend, homogenize, and freeze large batches of ice cream, exploring how these mechanical processes are mirrored in various embodied states and physical relationships. Simultaneously holding memories of Dallas’ bygone industrial era and space for potential futures, the site highlights the impermanence of our endeavors. Mixing Room lives in this tension, placing the room’s history in conversation with the present through embodied practice.

Created specifically for close-range viewing, audiences are encouraged to move throughout the space during the performance to witness the piece from different perspectives. 

Tickets are $10, $20, or $30 (pay what you wish) Please select the ticket price that best reflects your financial ability. Tiered ticket pricing is meant to increase accessibility for folks, while ensuring revenue from ticket sales helps cover the true costs of production. The highest ticket price helps to subsidize the lowest ticket price. All revenue from ticket sales will go towards Artist Fees and other project-related expenses. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Created by Lauren Kravitz

Performed by Rai Barnard, Willow DuBose, Lauren Kravitz, Jennifer Mabus, and Lu Paschal

Live Music by blue gender and Damien Williams

Lighting support by Jakob Fenton

Performance Schedule:

Saturday, May 16: 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm

Sunday, May 17: 1:00 pm, 4:00 pm

Notes:

• Enter through the door on Ervay St, and someone will be there to show you up the stairs.
• The performance is on the second floor of the building and is only accessible by stairs.
• There will be some chairs in the performance space for guests who need them.
• You are encouraged to move through the room as the performance progresses, and you are welcome to stand or sit on the floor.

Mixing Room is supported by YoungArts. Special thank you to Sonny Martinez and Cedars Union.

About

Lauren Kravitz is a dance artist, educator, and arts organizer from Dallas, TX. She began her professional career in New York as a member of Take Dance, UNA Projects, and Indah Walsh Dance Company, among others, and she is a performer and Rehearsal Director with New York-based Seán Curran Company, which she joined in 2016. Lauren has performed professionally around the country at the ODC Theater (CA), Brooklyn Academy of Music (NY), and the Watermill Center (NY), among others, and been a guest teacher at New York University, Sam Houston State University, The Wooden Floor, and more. Her own work has been presented in New York and Dallas at venues including Pageant (NY), Gibney Dance Center (NYC), and the Wyly Theatre (TX). In addition to making and performing dance, Lauren is passionate about contributing to an active, sustainable dance field. She is a founding contributor to Agora Artists (Dance Magazine’s 25 to Watch, 2026), a DFW-based organization supporting dancers through programming and professional development, and she continues to create process-oriented opportunities for dancers to move, craft, and exchange through workshops and performances. Lauren received her early training from Booker T. Washington HSPVA and graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Dance. Learn more about Lauren here.

The Cedars Union is an arts incubator dedicated to connecting North Texas's brightest creative talent with the essential resources needed to thrive professionally and artistically. In a city built on innovation and culture, they help artists find the support they need to grow, collaborate, and make a lasting impact. From access to high-quality studio space and equipment to entrepreneurial training and community connections, we empower artists to succeed in a competitive world. Learn more about The Cedars Union here.