The 2025 Live Performance Residency Application is now open
Deadline is November 30th 2024
If you have any questions about the application process please email us HERE
The Open Space Residency is designed for emerging and mid-career artists seeking a nurturing environment to explore and experiment with their new work. It serves as a dedicated space where artists can physically engage and test their creative endeavors. Shaking the Tree provides artists with an open platform to share the fruits of their labor and showcase the work they have produced. Given the existing imbalances within our industry, we will prioritize applications from BIPOC art-makers, while also encouraging everyone to apply.
2024 Live Performance Residents
Dirt Play (Working title)
Performs November 14th-16th
Featuring the work of Elsa Doughtery, Isabel Strongheart McTighe, Rose Proctor, Sofia Leonila Marks
Three witches meet in a cornfield at dusk-falling-quickly-to-midnight. The cornfield is on the border. Borders are the wound.
Baba Yaga meets the mid-western expanse in this devised exploration of isolation and solitude. Drawing on their shared vocabulary of ritualized performance, the Viewpoints, and Suzuki, facilitator Elsa Dougherty and performers Isabel McTighe, Rose Proctor, and Sofía Marks ask: What furtive transformations can unfold in the dark, and what happens when we bring them into the light?
Performs November 14th-16th
Featuring the work of Elsa Doughtery, Isabel Strongheart McTighe, Rose Proctor, Sofia Leonila Marks
Three witches meet in a cornfield at dusk-falling-quickly-to-midnight. The cornfield is on the border. Borders are the wound.
Baba Yaga meets the mid-western expanse in this devised exploration of isolation and solitude. Drawing on their shared vocabulary of ritualized performance, the Viewpoints, and Suzuki, facilitator Elsa Dougherty and performers Isabel McTighe, Rose Proctor, and Sofía Marks ask: What furtive transformations can unfold in the dark, and what happens when we bring them into the light?
Veronica, In Bed
Performs December 5th-7th
Written by Briana Ratterman Trevithick
Directed by Štěpán Šimek
Featuring the work of Musica Universalis (Laura Kuhlman, Esther Saulle, Paul Martin Beck, and Elizabeth O’Connor), Joellen Sweeney and Jonathan Cullen
A multi-media theatrical production exploring the life and times of Veronica Franco.
After sold-out theatrical runs of Danse Macabre in 2021 and Piercing the Veil in 2023, the musicians of Musica Universalis, director Štepán Šimek, and writer/performer Briana Ratterman Trevithick will be using their unique aesthetics of blending live music, poetry, puppetry, and old-world spectacle to turn their sights towards the life and times of Veronica Franco, famed courtesan and poet of 16th century Italian Renaissance.
Through merging Briana’s original text with the words of Veronica Franco herself, their devised multi-media performance will dig into the grey area veiled within the duality of the Mother and the Whore, and explore the messy relationships between sexuality, power, and survival. Renaissance melodies tinged with modern jazz, projections of historical images juxtaposed with provocative contemporary photographs, and inventive puppetry will both captivate the audience and invite them to reflect on the interplay between past and present.
Performs December 5th-7th
Written by Briana Ratterman Trevithick
Directed by Štěpán Šimek
Featuring the work of Musica Universalis (Laura Kuhlman, Esther Saulle, Paul Martin Beck, and Elizabeth O’Connor), Joellen Sweeney and Jonathan Cullen
A multi-media theatrical production exploring the life and times of Veronica Franco.
After sold-out theatrical runs of Danse Macabre in 2021 and Piercing the Veil in 2023, the musicians of Musica Universalis, director Štepán Šimek, and writer/performer Briana Ratterman Trevithick will be using their unique aesthetics of blending live music, poetry, puppetry, and old-world spectacle to turn their sights towards the life and times of Veronica Franco, famed courtesan and poet of 16th century Italian Renaissance.
Through merging Briana’s original text with the words of Veronica Franco herself, their devised multi-media performance will dig into the grey area veiled within the duality of the Mother and the Whore, and explore the messy relationships between sexuality, power, and survival. Renaissance melodies tinged with modern jazz, projections of historical images juxtaposed with provocative contemporary photographs, and inventive puppetry will both captivate the audience and invite them to reflect on the interplay between past and present.
Briana Ratterman Trevithick
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Štěpán Šimek
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Horse Piece
Performs December 12th-14th
Featuring the work of Kai Hynes & Annabel Cantor
Horse Piece (working title) is a devised dance-theatre reimagining of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play Equus.
At its core, Equus is about the internal struggle between dichotomous forces: animal vs human, Apollonian vs Dyonisian, natural vs supernatural. Rather than posing these extremes against each other, we are interested in inviting fluidity: fluidity of identity and character, fluidity of relationship and power dynamic, fluidity between what is “human” and what is “animal”, and perhaps a playful redefinition of terms.
Horse Piece had an initial work-in-progress showing at Scratch 4, through PETE and Coho. We began to explore elements of dance, puppetry, chance procedure, body percussion, butoh, ASMR, original and appropriated text, and overall design and aesthetics.
Performs December 12th-14th
Featuring the work of Kai Hynes & Annabel Cantor
Horse Piece (working title) is a devised dance-theatre reimagining of Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play Equus.
At its core, Equus is about the internal struggle between dichotomous forces: animal vs human, Apollonian vs Dyonisian, natural vs supernatural. Rather than posing these extremes against each other, we are interested in inviting fluidity: fluidity of identity and character, fluidity of relationship and power dynamic, fluidity between what is “human” and what is “animal”, and perhaps a playful redefinition of terms.
Horse Piece had an initial work-in-progress showing at Scratch 4, through PETE and Coho. We began to explore elements of dance, puppetry, chance procedure, body percussion, butoh, ASMR, original and appropriated text, and overall design and aesthetics.
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