The piece will explore the concept of Cryptobiosis, a state in extremophiles where their metabolic process is slowed due to adverse environmental conditions. This state of self-preservation continues until the environment improves. We will also explore adverse situations, relationships, and environments that have caused us to pause and consider how our communities can help us and bring us back to a state of balance.

• Choreographer: Robert Rubama

Show type: Dance and Nontraditional Forms

Tickets $20 /$25 at the door

This hour-long performance slot includes five short pieces: Comfort Shows, Melting the Glass, Poor Man's Parable, The Boardroom, and Working Title: reset stasis. The order of the presentations will be determined that afternoon. Please plan to attend all the performances. 

Spark Theatre Festival NYC - Fall 2024

September 9 - 29, 2024

All performances take place at the Chain Theatre, 312 W 36th St. 3rd floor, New York, NY 10018

Emerging Artists Theatre (EAT) returns with their one-of-a-kind Spark Theatre Festival NYC, allowing artists of different disciplines to present one performance of a polished "work-in-progress" with audience feedback. Visit the theater any evening during this three-week event, and you'll find yourself transported in a number of surprising ways: by a single performer embodying a whole host of characters, by a more experimental theater piece "done differently" that challenges and delights, by a cozy two-person show exploring relationships; or perhaps by a bouncy new musical that will have you humming. Emerging Artists has always been about new works, new talents, and new voices. That's never been more evident than now.

NO REFUNDS will be granted.