2025 ANNUAL FESTIVAL

SEPT 6–7

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 | 4 PM + 7 PM
NICHOLE CANUSO | BRANCHING PATHS: LUNAR RETREAT

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 | 2 PM
NICHOLE CANUSO | BRANCHING PATHS: LUNAR RETREAT

SEPT 26–27

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 | 7 PM
SOUND, LIGHT, MOVEMENT: SOLO CELLO + HANDMADE FILM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBR 27 | 7 PM
FEEDBACK SONATA: A STRING TRIO WITH MELANIE DYER, LORI GOLDSTON, AND GWEN LASTER

AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT
ANNUAL FESTIVAL

VIEW THE PERFORMANCE LENDING LIBRARY

VIEW THE 2025 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION

PERFORMANCE LENDING LIBRARY

QR codes at Studio Complex Lobby and at Concessions
Free

Two audio-guided, physical experiences adapted for Kaatsbaan’s campus, each under 30 minutes.

Bring a blanket, your smart phone/tablet (data streaming required) and earbuds/headphones, and be led into a range of embodied performance practices with your imagination as the site of the artwork. 

While created as a solo practice, you can synchronize doing it with friends as a group or simply go off on a solitary journey. Set up a spot anywhere on the Kaatsbaan campus, alongside a visual art sculpture or a tree, blend into the landscape at the edge of the forest or out in the middle of an open field, and begin at your own pace.

At Kaatsbaan, you can find the Lending Library QR codes inside the Studio Complex lobby and at Concessions. Individuals and groups can contact 845-757-5106 x117 or boxoffice@kaatsbaan.org for more information and support. When onsite for the festival, Box Office staff can offer suggestions for places to anchor your trip and answer any questions you may have.

• An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play (Bridget Fiske (UK/AUS), Joseph Lau (UK/AUS), Stelios Manousakis (GR/NL), and Stephanie Pan (US/NL)) 
  26 minutes
  An immersive participatory radio play for solo audiences that unfolds and transforms your environment through music, your movement, and text. There will be time to move with fury and collapse into the folds of time. It is all as you choose. 

• Resisting Extinction: dying and decomposing practice (BodyCartography Project (NO))
  25 minutes
  Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in, and with a damaged Earth. A meditative and low-impact experience, dying and decomposing practice is an excerpt of a larger performance work and is an invitation to prepare for potential climate realities. 

1. Neil Enggist: Tygerlight (2021), Odyssey 7 (2019), The Rising (2018), Mississippi Violet Fire (2022), Pedernal En Light (2020), En Taos (2022)

2. Freeda Electra Handelsman: Groovy Snow Bird (2024), Kiskatom Stream Dance (2023), Malibu Ocean Dance (2022), Excerpt of Crow Dancer in Snow (2021)

3. Jennifer Zackin: Trees and Fire (2025)

4. Jennifer Zackin: Cautionary Tales (2025)

5. Gaston Lachaise: Floating Woman (1927)

6. Heidi Lanino: Figurative Horse Column No. 1–3 (2019)

7. Heidi Lanino: Figurative Column No. 1–3 (2025)

8. Daisuke Kiyomiya: Pixel (2023), Sunrise (2023)

9. Ian McMahon: Shrink Wall .001 (2023)

10. Aurora Robson: Troika (2018)

11. Neil Enggist: Cosmogram (2016–2025), Azure Pearl & the Fault (2008–2024), The Tyger’s Last Dream III (2016–2025)

12. Portia Munson: Flower Mask (2020)

13. Gaston Lachaise: Torso of Elevation (1912-27/1934)

14. Neil Enggist: Hudson UnBroken I (2025), Hudson UnBroken II (2025)