SEASON 33 | 2020-21
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The VORTEX Odyssey: Underworld
September 25-October 10, 2020 | The VORTEX
We invite our virtual Voyagers into the under realm of the Gods. Let Charon guide you to Tartarus, the Asphodel Meadows, and the Elysian Fields where you will meet heroes, challenges, and even join Persephone’s Feast.
The VORTEX Odyssey
October 1-10, 2020 | The VORTEX
The VORTEX presents a whole new experience with a drive-thru performance installation quest: The VORTEX Odyssey.
FuturX Festival: Entra al Laberinto
November 6-21, 2020 | Avante Theatre Project, The VORTEX, Teatro Vivo, and ProyectoTeatro
For three weekends, November 6-21, 2020, Avante Theatre Project, The VORTEX, Teatro Vivo, and ProyectoTEATRO, present our third annual FuturX Festival of new and avant-garde LatinX performance.
Wildcraft
November 8 - 18, 2020 | Bottle Alley Theatre Company + The VORTEX
Wildcraft is a one-person show, devised and conceptualized by Bottle Alley Theatre Company, and starring Miki Johnson. The play takes the form of an interactive class focusing on wildcrafting, a specific branch of green witchcraft which is described within the play as "a blend of the magical, the herbalist and the forager.
Vulva Pope: Our Lady of the Sacred Part
January 15 - 24, 2021 | The VORTEX
La Raza Cósmica: Video on Demand
January 29 - February 14, 2021 | Proyecto Teatro + The VORTEX
Created for its premiere performance during FuturX 2020: Entra al Laberinto, La Raza Cósmica by Proyecto Teatro once again shines on the VORTEX Virtual Channel as a Video on Demand. Adapted from José Vasconcelos’ essay of the same title, La Raza Cósmica explores and critiques the work which was published in 1925. Through the lens of a troupe of clowns, Vasconcelos’ theory that traditional, exclusive concepts of so-called "race" and nationality can be transcended in the name of humanity's common destiny are dissected.
Tales of a Blerd Ballerina
April 8-18, 2021 | A VORTEX & NNPN Bridge Project production | Workshop
A choreopoem of stories told with humor, dance, and music, Tales of a Blerd Ballerina centers the Blerd (black nerd) experience, embracing diverse communities and generating vital conversations around black identity.
Dandelion
May 20-25, 2021 | Bottle Alley Theatre Company + The VORTEX
Dandelion is the newest collaboration between Bottle Alley and The VORTEX. This unique interactive experience takes the form of an online digital auction with performance elements consisting of ephemera and occult objects from within the Farm Road Coven universe, curated by coven member Morgan Moxley.
Annie Jump and the Library of Heaven
June 4 - July 3, 2021 | The VORTEX, NNPN, Six Square, and The Carver
SYT 2021: Pandemdem Edition: Another Great Depression
July 29-31, 2021 | The VORTEX
How to Heal, When the World is Killing You Harshly - Workshop Performance*
August 5-8, 2021 | The VORTEX
The VORTEX presents a workshop performance of How to Heal, When the World is Killing you Harshly, a solo work-in-progress that tracks Oktavea LaToi’s personal journey towards communal healing, self love, and healthy relationships in a world that is killing us with racial violence, fetishism, climate crisis, rage, and a global pandemic.
*In the course of development, this play’s title changed to: i see you. you’re seen.
Straitjacket: Variations on a Theme of Horror
September 2 - 12, 2021 | The VORTEX