Ridge Theater has established itself as one of America’s premiere creators of avant-garde theater, opera, and new music performance. Ridge productions are epic visual and aural works that typically position performers within film and video projections, redefining traditional theatrical boundaries. Dramatic staging by acclaimed director Bob McGrath and haunting film work and projections by the filmmaker Bill Morrison (“Decasiaâ€) and the visual artist Laurie Olinder are hallmarks of the Ridge style.Their productions have been presented at venues such as the American Repertory Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Royal Festival Hall, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.The work has been described as “hallucinatory, oddly beautiful, and disturbingâ€, by the Chicago Tribune, “They conjure up a dreamlike world, in which the actors seem to float.†Ridge Theater and its collaborators have received numerous awards including multiple Village Voice OBIE, and NY Dance & Performance BESSIE awards, an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design in the Theater, as well as fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Five films from Ridge productions are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Dec 9, Dec 11 - 13 - 7:30pm - Brooklyn, NY
"Lightning at our feet", New York premiere of the Michael Gordon / Ridge Theater multimedia production exploring the work of Emily Dickinson as part of the BAM Next Wave Festival.
BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY
