Deep Space Performance Residency
“We are humbled by this place, and by the creativity that has been infused into us. By living and working together around the clock, we’ve learned a lot about what our show is and we are excited to share our work with you and continue growing the piece.”
The deep space program
Core to the NACL mission, DEEP SPACE is a performance residency program for artists and groups who are experimenting and making new works along the fringes of the mainstream. We believe performance that pushes the envelope of form and content requires time and space beyond what is customary, in order to allow artists to dig deeply into the processes of creation and production. DEEP SPACE provides artists with use of the NACL performance hall and artist residence for a period of rehearsal and development (one week residencies are typical, March-December) culminating in a public sharing with an invited audience.
The Deep Space program utilizes a rolling application process to support a model of curation that values deepening long term relationships and establishing new ones with artists whose investigations dovetail with our own. Our process involves seeing live work and developing a conversation with the creators, to allow for an organic approach to residency selection. Whether we’ve met before or not, whether we’ve known you forever, or just started talking recently, you can let us know if you think we should be checking out your work. If you or your company are interested in a Deep Space residency let us know by completing an application.
“It was such an unbelievably positive experience for all of us. Words cannot convey how grateful I am. Having that time in the theater and in your beautiful house allowed us to take the show to a place I am not sure it would have gotten otherwise.”
“Frohardt and company have been finessing their piece for years, and the result is something extraordinarily integrated, burnished to a high gloss.”
DEEP SPACE ARTISTS 2010-2022
Jane Wells; Megan Stewart & Julie Hammond; Wistaria Project (Jeremy Goren, Timothy Edward Craig, Amy Liou, Aaron Ellis, Ras Badejo); WAMOO (Juan Alvarez); box collective (Sara Fay George, Andrea Goldman, Maria Menegaki); Lindsey Hope Pearlman & Bread Arts Collective; Merlixse Ventura; Cindy De La Cruz; Emily Windler Group (Emily Windler, Jessica López-Barkl, Susan Stroupe, Nick López, Brian Kuwabara); Cara Francis; Mariana Newhard; Holly Holsinger; Jaime Bouvier; Donna Costello, Stacy Lynn Smith, Jennifer Paar, Larry Jackson, & C. Tai Tai; Cleveland CORE Ensemble (Raymond Bobgan, Anastasia Urozhaeva); India Nicole Burton Ensemble (India Nicole Burton, Jaiie Dayo-Aliya, Molly Andrews-Hinders, Michael Akintoye); Great Small Works; Ann Marie Dorr & Paul Ketchum; Leonie Bell, Hyung Seok Jeon, & Marcella Murray; Modesto “Flako” Jimenez & ¡Oye Group!; Justin Hicks & The HawtPlates; Kareem Lucas; The Drunkard’s Wife (Normandy Sherwood, Craig Flanagin); Sean Donovan; Vagabond Inventions (Jennifer Sargent); Nellie Tinder (Julia May Jonas, Sarah Hughes); LAVA; Heather Christian; Bread Arts Collective; Purva Bedi, Kristin Marting, & Mariana Newhard; William Burke & Alaina Ferris; Itai Erdal, Dima Alansari, & Ker Wells; Minor Theater (Julia Jarcho, Ben Williams); Theatre Nohgaku; A Host of People; Title:Point; Kristin Marting & Robert Lyons; MB Adaptors; The Assembly; Scott Adkins; Kevin Augustine's Lone Wolf Tribe; Pontine Theatre; Superhero Clubhouse; Orange Theatre; Sprat Theatre; Groundswell Theatre Co. (Jenn Kidwell, Scott R. Sheppard); Liberty Free Theatre; Gold No Trade; DDT; Robin Frohardt; Eliza Bent & Dave Malloy; New York Neo-Futurists; Holly Holsinger, Chris Seibert, & Raymond Bobgan; Theater Mitu; Human Lard Dog & The Band of Shy; Sojourn Theatre & The TEAM; Goat in the Road Productions; Kristen Kosmas; Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant; Emily Mendelsohn, Jeff Becker, & Eric Ehn; Nightjar Apothecary (Brett Keyser); Rosaruby Kagan; Bob Wiseman; Mimi McGurl; Einy Aring/Eye Knee Coordination; Performers Exchange Project; Dance Box Theater
“Physical-theater artists who wrote this daring show for themselves to perform, Ms. Kidwell and Mr. Sheppard are accustomed to making work that’s rooted in the body. “Underground Railroad Game” is more text-based than they’re used to, yet it’s rooted in the body, too — the black body and the white body, female and male, locked in a poisoned dynamic of scarring damage and enormous pain.”
“The success of the show in New York—due in no small part to our workshop at NACL—has garnered some touring opportunities for us.”
“I can’t think of a better way to start the theatergoing year than with this language-drenched, resonant knockout...”
Pictured: 2017 Deep Space artists Mariana Newhard and Purva Bedi in Assembled Identity, Directed by Kristin Marting; Photo by Paula Court