Saturday, August 30, 2 PM
Saturday, August 30, 7 PM
Sunday, August 31, 2 PM
$45 General Admission
$25 Students with ID
90 minutes, includes Intermission
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

In Collage Revisited (2025), the full company revisits The History of Collage, the last collaboration between Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane before Arnie’s death. Originally created in 1988, the remounting is part of a legacy project for the company—looking back to look forward. Kaatsbaan audiences will experience a preview of the first time Collage will be performed in over 20 years. The piece recalls the excitement the two artists shared as they set out to reconsider dance spectacle during the 1980s art scene. Collage Revisited blends dance, music, and spoken word, exploring themes of identity.

Program information for STORY/ (2013) will be added soon.

An HV favorite at some of the busiest farm & flea markets, pop-ups, and catered events, Samosa Shack will be on site Saturday, August 30, 3–7 PM at Kaatsbaan. Samosa Shack uses Hudson Valley farm-fresh, seasonal ingredients to bring handcrafted, plant-based, Indian-inspired deliciousness to the beautiful surroundings of Kaatsbaan on its opening weekend!

Funding is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Arnie Zane and Bill T. Jones (1982). Photo by Lois Greenfield (American, b. 1949), courtesy New York Live Arts

Saturday, August 30, 4 PM
Free Admission, RSVPs encouraged
60 minutes
Lobby Gallery + Grounds (indoors and outdoors)

Join curator Hilary Greene and artists of the 2025 Visual Arts Exhibition for a special opportunity to explore the show and engage in conversation about their work.

Presented in Kaatsbaan’s Lobby Gallery and across our outdoor grounds, the exhibition features a dynamic blend of contemporary works by acclaimed Hudson Valley artists, alongside two newly installed bronze sculptures by renowned 20th-century sculptor Gaston Lachaise, on loan from the Lachaise Foundation.

This year’s lineup includes works by Neil Enggist, Freeda Electra Handelsman, Daisuke Kiyomiya, Heidi Lanino, Ian McMahon, Portia Munson, Aurora Robson, and Jennifer Zackin.

An HV favorite at some of the busiest farm & flea markets, pop-ups, and catered events, Samosa Shack will be on site Saturday, August 30, 3–7 PM at Kaatsbaan. Samosa Shack uses Hudson Valley farm-fresh, seasonal ingredients to bring handcrafted, plant-based, Indian-inspired deliciousness to the beautiful surroundings of Kaatsbaan on its opening weekend!

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Floating Woman(1927), Gaston Lachaise, Bronze, 51 ¾” x 96” x 22”. Sculpture courtesy Lachaise Foundation. Photo courtesy Kaatsbaan.

Saturday, September 6, 4 PM, 4:10 PM, 4:20 PM
Saturday, September 6, 7 PM, 7:10 PM, 7:20 PM
Sunday, September 7, 2 PM, 2:10 PM, 2:20 PM
$30 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
45–60 minutes with timed entires
Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Nichole Canuso

Timed with September’s full moon, Lunar Retreat is an interactive, multi-sensory performative experience inspired by the gradual distance growing between the Moon and Earth. Set within the hallways, grounds, and studios of Kaatsbaan, this immersive journey invites audiences to wander, witness, and reflect on how we move through care, grief, and transformation—both individually and collectively.

Created by choreographer and 2025 United States Artist Fellow Nichole Canuso in collaboration with ocean explorer and visual artist Rebecca Rutstein, experimental sound designer Bobby McElver, and a visionary team of designers and performers, Lunar Retreat opens a space for poetic, playful, and communal connection with the shifting rhythms of our planetary bodies. Lunar Retreat invites us to reflect on our deep evolutionary ties to the ocean and the moon, reminding us that we are all interconnected with the natural world.

Audiences will enter the interactive guided tour in small groups with timed entry points every 10 minutes. 

• The experience travels from station to station through a maze-like installation with guidance from performers. 

• There will be seating available in each station for those who want or need it. 

• The experience will be wheelchair accessible. 

• There will be moments of watching dance, moments of being gently guided through space, moments of listening to things on headphones and also invitations to write and reflect.  

• The experience lasts anywhere between 45–60 minutes, depending on individual preferences and interests

The presentation of Lunar Retreat was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

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Thursday, September 11, 7 PM
Free General Admission, RSVP to reserve seats
75 minutes, includes Q&A
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Courtesy A Public Space

Join celebrated writers Nick Flynn and Marie Howe for an evening of readings and conversation exploring literary friendship, artistic collaboration, and creative influence. Introduction and Q&A by Aditi Bhattacharjee.

Nick Flynn is the author of twelve books, including most recently the poetry collection Low and Stay: threads, collaborations, and conversations, which documents twenty-five years of his collaborations with artists, filmmakers, and composers. His acclaimed memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City was made into a film starring Robert DeNiro.

Marie Howe received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her New and Selected Poems. The former Poet Laureate of New York State, she is the poet in residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Aditi Bhattacharjee is an Indian writer and translator. Her work has appeared in Epiphany, The Punch, Sky Island Journal, The Los Angeles Review and elsewhere and has been nominated for Best of the Net, Best New Poets and a Pushcart Prize. She is the programs manager at A Public Space and lives in New York City. 

Presented in partnership with A Public Space.

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Friday, September 12, 1 PM
Saturday, September 13, 1 PM
Free, RSVP to reserve space
60 minutes
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Anja Hitzenberger

How I may see our universe, acknowledging its infinitude as I dance, is my survival.
— Deborah Hay

The Performance Club operates on the belief that live performance is a catalyst for audiences and performers. At Kaatsbaan, Deborah Hay has 20 minutes to experience a work-in-progress in the presence of the audience. As an audience member, you have 40 minutes to process any reciprocal responses to the live event you just experienced. By providing time for audiences to witness a live performance and immediately process the performance individually, in their own way—through writing, drawing, dancing, resting, meditating, etc.—unforeseen insights arise.

The Performance Club is not about critique, and no one imposes their exploration on anyone else. It is a community experiment that provides audiences and performers the opportunity to notice how they influence and inspire one another.

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Friday, September 12, 7:00 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
90 minutes
Meadow Stage (outdoors)

Gaia Music Collective, 2024 Annual Festival. The Porch stories will take place in the same location. Photo courtesy Kaatsbaan.

The Porch is a live storytelling series created by Joey and Lorelei Shavelle that brings members of our Hudson Valley community together for an intimate evening of curated, true stories told without notes. A cast of local residents, who work with The Porch to shape stories from their lives, tell varied and affecting tales under the late-summer night sky. Refreshments at our concessions will be available before and during the performances.

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Saturday, September 13, 7 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
90 minutes with 20-minute, post-film conversation
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Laurent Pichaud

I cannot think of anything else in my life where there is so much unlearning and learning happening at the same time.
—Deborah Hay about dance

An evening of insightful and meditative documentaries on the interminable, inimitable, experimental choreographer Deborah Hay, her artistic relationships, and her creative process. Films by Peter Humble and David Young: Alignment is everywhere and Becky Edmunds: Turn Your F^*king Head. Discussion with Hay to follow with 2025 Annual Festival Guest Curator, Michèle Steinwald.

Alignment is everywhere was shot on a 16mm hand-cranked camera using expired and hand-processed film stock, and marks Hay’s return after the loss of theater innovator and dear friend, Margaret Cameron. Filmed in 2019 at Indented Head, near Melbourne, Australia, the short work is a gentle contemplation of how one “serves a tree” through death.

Turn Your F^*king Head documents the final edition of Hay’s iconic Solo Performance Commissioning Project, in which participating artists from around the world receive Hay’s most recent solo choreography. Filmed in 2012 at Findhorn community, Scotland, the poetics and puzzles of Hay’s instructions are visually combined with the landscape of the historic ecovillage.

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Friday, September 19, 7 PM, with post-show talk led by Kayla Farrish
Saturday, September 20, 4 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
$40 for both Ayodele Casel + Kayla Farrish
60 minutes, includes Intermission
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Steven Pisano

In partnership with Works + Process LaunchPAD and building from last year’s critically acclaimed phenomenon Freedom… In Progress, tapper Ayodele Casel once again creates a new work by ambitiously joining jazz legends Max Roach and Cecil Taylor—from their uncompromising 1979 improvised recording—with rhythmic love, control, sensitivity, and liberation.

Casel is sought after as a “tap dancer and choreographer of extraordinary depth,” and a “force of wit and wonder” (New York Times). Known for her highly skilled and expansive improvisation, Casel’s projects include her concert and Bessie Award-winning film Chasing Magic, and her Drama Desk-nominated work as tap choreographer for the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

The performance on Friday, September 19 will include a post-show artists talk led by fellow festival artist Kayla Farrish.

Tivoli's newest restaurant addition and immediate hot spot, Club Sandwich, is offering specially curated picnic options for folks spending Saturday, September 20 on our beautiful grounds in between extraordinary dance events. Order meals when you buy your tickets and have them delivered onsite! Menu options appear after entering your contact details in checkout. Order by 12 PM, Thursday, September 18. Three picnic options are $20 each and come with a pickle, bag o' chips, and a Spindrift beverage. Vegan/Vegetarian/GF options available.

This project is made possible, in part, through funding from the County of Dutchess and Destination Dutchess (formerly Dutchess Tourism, Inc.) and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson.

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Saturday, September 20, 7 PM, with post-show talk by Ayodele Casel
Sunday, September 21, 2 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
$40 for both Kayla Farrish + Ayodele Casel
75 minutes, includes Intermission
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Luke Myers

Two brand-new works from the insatiable dancemaker Kayla Farrish (2024 Annual Festival, Limón Dance Company commissioned choreographer) that draw on Black histories, jazz’s reimagination, and magical realism.

DOCILE is a study on untaming, a play on light and darkness, inspired by James Baldwin’s seminal questioning Notes of a Native Son as he bridged the decision of finding freedom outside of America’s borders or returning home in the 1960s to commit himself to resistance movements. Turning towards and colliding with a vibration of freedom, this work witnesses a Black woman in a discovery of truth and a journey of release, asking “What transformation and wildness is possible in reclamation and seeing our full humanity?”

A Beast is an intimate and eruptive conversation between two people as they make sense of one another. They hold one another and listen, opening up to greater depth and feeling. Their words and songs spill into flight and physical risk. They uncover their personal power within, unraveling and finding themselves through the confrontation.

The performance on Saturday, September 20, will include a post-show artist talk led by fellow festival artist Ayodele Casel.

Tivoli's newest restaurant addition and immediate hot spot, Club Sandwich, is offering specially curated picnic options for folks spending Saturday, September 20 on our beautiful grounds in between extraordinary dance events. Order meals when you buy your tickets and have them delivered onsite! Menu options appear after entering your contact details in checkout. Order by 12 PM, Thursday, September 18. Three picnic options are $20 each and come with a pickle, bag o' chips, and a Spindrift beverage. Vegan/Vegetarian/GF options available.

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Friday, September 26, 7 PM

$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
70 minutes
Black Box Theater, Studio Complex (indoors)

Photo by Dammicco Bassa

Live music by cellist Lori Goldston; silent films by Bill Basquin (US), Jon Behrens (US, 1964–2022), Derek Jenkins (US/Canada), Anna Kipervaser (US), Lucie Leszez (France) + Stefano Canapa (Italy), Rocío Mesa (Spain), Wenhua Shi (US), Vicky Smith (UK), Kalpana Subramanian (US), and Leandro Varela (Argentina).

An evening of moving image that opens with Stan’s Salon, a hand-painted film by Interbay Cinema Society (ICS) founder, Jon Behrens (1964–2022), created in 1997 after attending one of Stan Brakhage’s film salons. Remaining selections, curated by filmmaker and ICS executive director, Caryn Cline, specifically for Lori Goldston, are drawn from ICS’ Engauge Film Festival’s recent archives and evoke landscapes near and far, internal and surrounding. In early 2025, Goldston traveled through Europe with this special collaboration, performing in London, Bristol, Bologna, Rome, Milan, Brussels, and Bremen before coming to Tivoli to share with Kaatsbaan audiences.

Lori Goldston plays written, traditional, and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, sound artist, and widely varied collaborator. Goldston was the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York. Her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought.

View program trailer below.

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Saturday, September 27, 7 PM
$25 General Admission
$15 Students with ID
60 minutes
Meadow Stage (outdoors)

L to R: Lori Goldston photo by A McDonald; Melanie Dyer photo by Peter Gannushkin; Gwen Laster photo by Tom Moore

Feedback Sonata is the newest work by composer/cellist Lori Goldston for string trio, written to be performed with violist Melanie Dyer and violinist Gwen Laster. Performing together for the first time for this bespoke concert, these three powerhouse musicians combine to embody the essential convergence of jazz, classical, folk, and experimental music. Their collective histories include performing with and recording credits spanning Sun Ra Arkestra, Aretha Franklin, Nirvana, Harlem Arts Ensemble, David Byrne, Rihanna, Tyler the Creator, Earth, Jon Batiste, and so so so many more.

Lori Goldston plays written, traditional, and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, sound artist, and widely varied collaborator. Goldston was the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York. Her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought.

Melanie Dyer is a violist/composer who finds freedom in multiple artistic disciplines as means of exploring sonic language and possibility, reflecting and responding to lived experience in the 21st-century zeitgeist. Her body of work includes viola performance, music composition, theater, poetry/prose, and visual arts.

Gwen Laster is an adventurous composer, arranger, and orchestrator, and was just awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship. Laster is a classically-trained artist/violinist with a deep appreciation for America’s musical history and a scholar of African-American musical heritage, plus a socially conscious activist and educator who understands the power of music to reach and touch everyday people. Her playing is poignant, descriptive, and always relevant.

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