Two dancers are seen on stage in a wide second position with arms bent opposite ways. They are both barefoot and wearing short dresses, one red, one black with sparkles. The background is blurred but you can make out the shape of some props.

Deepe Darknesse (pronounced dee-pee dark-ness-ay) is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers/theater makers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, the performers push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt to become something “better” (a bird?) backfires: the shows’ three worlds tangle into a gordian knot and their climactic moment is overshadowed by the glamourous entrance of underrated 1960s Italian songstress Cocki Mazzetti.

This is an ADA-accessible venue.

ASL Interpretation

Ticket price(s): $0-$80