Theater Mitu presents a production in collaboration with Alaska’s Perseverance Theater of Raven Odyssey. Written by Ishmael Hope and PJ Paparelli. This piece, performed in collaboration with Alaska Native ritual musicians and dancers from the Haida, Tlingit, Yup’ik, Siberian Yup’ik, Athabascan, Aleut, and Alutiqq nations, seeks to celebrate differences between the Alaskan nations and draw a common through-line involving their traditional raven lore.
This piece explores the relevance and impact of the Japanese art form Butoh to the American gaze. Exploring both philosophy and form, the company inhabits this anti-traditional form in the most traditional of ways.
Inspired by Hindu, North African and Gypsy moon myths, Moonchild tells the story of a woman whose desire for love is so great, it summons the moon, awakens the oceans and changes the course of humanity forever. Soon she discovers the sacrifice made may be too much for her to bear. In a landscape of tricksters and superstition, of vows and prophecies, the voices of the past ask us to question our dreams–to ask ourselves how far would we go in search of true love.
Theater Mitu presents a radical adaptation of the American Musical HAIR (by Rado, Ragni and MacDermot) in collaboration with New York’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and NYU/Tisch. Re-orchestrated by Todd Almond, this production breathes new relevance to the iconic piece about identity and what it means to be revolutionary. This re-imagining manifests forty head-shaved characters with an idealistic dream of what life should be. Surrounded by an all white landscape and filled with electronica and computerized music, they in turn ask us to actively step out and dream and, furthermore, to make that dream real before time runs out.
Theater Mitu presents String of Fragmentation at the Patravadi Theater (Thailand). Written by Panisa Puvapiromquan/ Directed by Rubén Polendo. A collaboration with Thai performer Panisa, the piece explores a non-narrative look at the correlation between Theravada Buddhist philosophy and contemporary scientific thought.
Theater Mitu presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Patravadi Theater in Bangkok, Thailand. Written by William Shakespeare/ Directed by Rubén Polendo. A collaboration between Mitu and various Kohn (classical Thai mask) dancers from Thailand’s renowned Patravadi Theater, the piece reconceptualizes Shakespeare’s romance as a manifestation of the tension between Eastern and Western thought.
Theater Mitu presents a production of Ahraihsak (previously titled Dhammashok) at New York’s CSV Center. The piece is an epic and mythical play, rooted in a story from ancient India. With over 40 characters played by twelve actors, Ahraihsak follows a regal prince as he transforms into a ruthless warrior striving to unite his country, and his subsequent conversion to Buddhism.
Theater Mitu presents a production in collaboration with NYU Graduate Acting Program of The Legend of The Kinnaree. Written and Directed by Rubén Polendo. inspired by the traditional Thai myth. Using Balinese and Commedia masks along with marionettes, this exploration of ghost stories and the theatrical is a reflection on the ideas of terror and haunting as it fits into contemporary social views.
Theater Mitu presents the dance-theater piece Happy Accident #1. Produced by Rubén Polendo/Choreographed by Scott Spahr/Created by Theater Mitu. This was done as part of the Ulster Country Ballet Festival of Dance. This purely aesthetic piece, a fusion of unintended moments generated in the Theater Mitu creation process, explores the notion of accident in the act of creation.
