Now in its 34th year, the NW New Works Festival features established artists from a variety of performance disciplines, upholding its mantra to create a platform for tomorrow’s artists today within the Northwest’s creative community. Curated by a panel of peer artists and administrators from across the region, the Festival provides rehearsal time, an honorarium, documentation, and the opportunity to present work at OtB.

WEEKEND 1: MAINSTAGE SHOWCASE
JUN 10-11

NIKOLA TESLA PROJEKT
The Light (Music/Theater | Seattle)
A new story of Nikola Tesla’s birth, childhood and exodus, told with Balkan ethnic melodies, electronic and industrial sounds, and dance.

VANESSA GOODMAN/ACTION AT A DISTANCE
Floating Upstream (Dance | Vancouver, BC)
An exploration of having one’s head in the clouds where everything is simultaneously possible and impossible.

KAITLIN McCARTHY
Eight Abigails (Dance | Seattle)
A dance about a girl teetering on the edge of sanity, survival, and insurgency: reimagining the teenage villain from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.

WAXIE MOON
After the Funeral (Burlesque | Seattle)
A widowed gender-blending burlesque artist shares her Victorian secret.

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Check out the entire Festival schedule here, and learn how you can save when you purchase multi-showcase packages:
http://www.ontheboards.org/nw-new-works-festival-2017

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Top right: Photo by Jenny Peterson. Bottom right: Photo by Bronwen Houck Photography. All other photos courtesy of the artists.