SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Friday, June 19
8:00pm
SPIDER Opening Event
Saturday, June 20
6pm | Carlisle South
ReMemory
Jessica Wilson
(Albuquerque, NM)
“Generation after generation, they struggled for insights others had already had before them… (leading to) the endless repetition of effort, the constant reinventing of the wheel”
–Gerda Lerner.
Weaving threads of community, isolation, and protest, ReMemory uses contemporary movement to explore themes of erasure, and a desire to find and connect with the past.
7pm | Popejoy Lobby
Eutraphelia
Caitlin Fahey Crow
(Albuquerque, NM)
Opening Ceremony
8pm | Carlisle South
5000 Steps to Justice and Peace
Marianna Staroselsky
Initially created as a memorial soundwalk through the dunes of The Hague, this live performance invites audiences into close proximity with Ukrainian war memory, displacement, and identity.
Written by Anna Khvyl and Piotr Armianovski. Adapted by Marianna Staroselsky and Wayne Maugans. Directed by Wayne Maugans. Performed by Marianna Staroselsky. Dramaturgy by Josh Sobel.
Sunday, June 21
6pm | Carlisle South
Nijinsky’s Ghosts
Lorien House
(Albuquerque, NM)
A Dance Play in 9 Acts based on the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
8pm | Studio Sway
DECTEN4PM
RigorMortis Productions
(New Mexico)
An improvisational work created and performed by Elyse Fahey and Madrone Matysiak, DECTEN4PM is a gentle ritual that seeks to acknowledge our mothers as individuals and as parents simultaneously, with compassion.
Monday, June 22
3:30pm | Carlisle South
Nick Swenson and Sheree V. Campbell Performance Workshop
6pm | The Experimental Theatre
Blood Patterns and Bone Thread
dustin maxwell
(Albuquerque, NM)
A new dance project by dustin maxwell who makes Lynchian butohesque performance works that are visual art in movement.
8pm | Carlisle South
Radio Free Marco
Rick Burkhart
(Brooklyn, NY)
Broadcasting directly into a popular radio host’s brain, a group of strangely powerful children make their demands to the country that’s determined to expel them. Witness this historic live-in-studio radio event before it gets shut down.
Tuesday, June 23
SPIDER Gathering
9am | Java Joe’s
Butoh Workshop
with dustin maxwell
1pm – 3pm
Studio Sway
6pm | Carlisle South
The Three Sisters
Janaki Ranpura
(Santa Fe, NM)
This is a movement piece about the many meanings of Three Sisters, from MacBeth to Chekhov to companion planting.
8pm | Carlisle South
Stand in the Shade of Me
Kate Clarke
(Santa Fe, NM)
An orchard dreams, a river rushes, and memory flickers through a fading estate in Stand in the Shade of Me, a 60-minute solo adaptation of The Cherry Orchard created and performed by Kate Clarke. Transforming into seven characters as well as the forces of time, nature, and memory, Clarke uses physical theatre, original soundscapes, and striking metaphor to reimagine Anton Chekhov’s classic for a contemporary American moment. Developed in collaboration with Tucson-based mime artist, Rick Wamer, Stand in the Shade of Me invites audiences to reflect on what is lost, what persists, and what must be reimagined in times of transition.
Wednesday, June 24
6pm | The Experimental Theatre
Therapy
Bobcat Ranf
(Albuquerque, NM)
Therapy unleashes a rapid-fire collage of vaudevillian vignettes, surreal sketches, and unraveling realities. this genre-bending dance-theatre romp hurtles through popular culture, spiraling toward one unruly thought: maybe we’ve all lost our f*cking minds.
8pm | Carlisle South
UNBOUND
Sarah Hogland-Gurulé
(Albuquerque, NM)
UNBOUND: A Performance Ritual honors the lives and legacies of the performers’ enslaved Indigenous ancestors through dance, theatre, poetry, and wearable art.
Thursday, June 25
SPIDER Gathering
12pm | Imperial Food Hall
8pm | Carlisle South
François Achan and Elyse Fahey
(Albuquerque, NM)
DoubleBill
The Bench
Francois Achan
A Hip-Hop story
Sparkling Bones
Elyse Fahey
Created through VESSEL 2026, a short-process choreographic residency hosted by Studio Sway. Sparkling Bones was made in 10 hours over 2 days.
Friday, June 26
6pm | Carlisle South
BLACKOUT
Ethelyn Friend
New York, NY
A middle-aged trust fund baby inadvertently discovers the origins of wealth in her family and falls into a game of hide and seek with US history.
This solo performance reflects one white woman’s process of facing her direct links to slavery. A somatic, musical, and theatrical exploration of denial, guilt & response.
8pm | Carlisle South
The Moon on Her Back /bw This Is
Erik Ehn and Ensemble
(New Mexico and New York)
New works of movement theatre including a workshop performance of She Walks with the Moon on Her Back, and This Is, created by Madrone Matysiak for Erik Ehn.
Saturday, June 27
Sunday, June 28
11:00am
SPIDER Closing Gathering
locations
Carlisle South
301 Yale Blvd NE
The Experimental Theatre (The X)
203 Cornell Dr – basement level
Studio Sway
1100 San Mateo Blvd NE, Suite 32
Rodey Lobby
203 Cornell Dr
Java Joe’s
906 Park Ave SW
Imperial Food Hall
701 Central Ave NE