Double Feature with works by zay thurgood & dani derks and Christy Funsch

dani and zay take on a brand new collab with their debut performance, between a rock and a soft place. The work will explore the edges of impulse, hope, desire, tension, and inescapable tenderness. 

Set List (2025) collides two of Funsch Dance’s works-in-progress from 2024: PastPerfect, created in the spring in San Francisco, and experimental shards made throughout New York State over the summer. Set List careens through the debris fields of the two processes, nourishing vestigial desires from these past explorations. The past processes are embedded in the structure of the new work, where their tattered edges provide undercurrents of tension. Set Listis a work in conversation with its component parts. It values tangents over accumulation.

Failure Party - a dance improvisation workshop

What environment do we need to be able to fail? How do we create those conditions? How do we allow it to be a gateway to the next thing? Failure, in a positive light, is a part of learning and building curiosity about how to achieve something. It requires honoring experimentation and allowing the unexpected to guide our next move.

This workshop is open to all. No prior dance experience needed. The beginning of our time will be dedication to warming up ourselves and our environment via guided practices that offer movement, listening and breath as our impulses. The second half will be devoted to an open practice failure party score where all our unique curiosities will be thrown into the pot towards an unknown outcome. 

Join us for an open dance jam led by Glenna!

We’ll begin with a group arrival to touch base, move into 20-30 minutes of individual warm up and then open into a group improvisation jam. A light score will be offered for those who prefer a little more structure or guidance. We’ll close out the session by coming together once more to “harvest” what arose during the jam.

Through a system of choices, Open Machine explores the survey and navigation of dancing bodies in public spaces. Dancers travel through urban architectures and outdoor, remote environments outfitted with participatory scores. Performers direct and interpret these exterior journeys, layering them into a multi-sensory tapestry of movement, visualization, audio description, and music. Paths converge into a dynamic choreography for the stage that reimagines live gathering, decision-making, and our influence on an increasingly mediated and rapidly changing world.