Performance Lending Library

Photo by Uche Iroegbu, courtesy of Pramila Vasudevan

PERFORMANCE LENDING LIBRARY
QR codes at Studio Complex Lobby and at Concessions
Monday - Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM
Access included with tickets on festival days
Lobby Gallery + Grounds (indoors and outdoors)
Free

A curated selection of audio-guided physical experiences adapted for Kaatsbaan’s environment, each under 30 minutes. 

Bring your smart phone/tablet (data streaming required), earbuds/headphones, and be led into a range of embodied performance practices with your imagination as the site of the artwork. Available onsite for free and at your own pace throughout the festival (August 29–September 12).

At Kaatsbaan, you can find the Performance Lending Library QR codes inside the Studio Complex lobby and at Concessions. Individuals and groups can contact 845-757-5106 x117 or boxoffice@kaatsbaan.org for more information and support. When onsite for the festival, Box Office staff can offer suggestions for places to anchor your experience and answer any questions you may have.

• A Concept Album Of Architectural Choreographies: A guerrilla audio tour in semi-public spaces
  Bridget Fiske, Joseph Lau, Stelios Manousakis, and Stephanie Pan, A Concept Album of Architectural Choreographies: A guerrilla audio tour in semi-public spaces. A mixtape-style selection of propositions to perform almost-imperceptible daily dances in overlooked transitory and in-between places around Kaatsbaan. An international co-production by Modulus (NL) and Project Auske (UK).

• Terry Hempfling and Rachel Jendrzejewski: Backwards Walk
  An invitation to walk backwards slowly, in a sustained tempo, while listening to fragments of text and focusing your sensory orientation along a single path. Developed as a collaboration from 2016 to 2025 and adapted in 2026 for Kaatsbaan, Backwards Walk is a site-responsive movement practice designed to interrupt your habitual patterns of perception, attention, and locomotion.

• Plant Lines | Pramila Vasudevan, Moss | Marrow Vitality Scores
  A movement ritual for all bodies as constellations of energy fields. A visualization and overlay of human marma points (ie. anatomical junctions where muscles, veins, ligaments, bones, and joints meet) with those of our plant kin (ie. roots to shoots), honoring every point as vulnerable and an opportunity for healing.
  

About the Artists:

Modulus is a Hague-based artist-run interdisciplinary production house that creates innovative, participatory, immersive, and embodied experiences.

The work of Stelios Manousakis (Modulus) has been shown in five continents in festivals, performance venues, centers, museums, galleries, underground spaces, film houses and public spaces, such as ZKM, Ars Electronica, Rewire Festival, Museum Reina Sofia, London National Gallery, IDFA, The Place, November Music, Dutch National Opera, and O. Festival. Stelios has a PhD in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from the University of Washington.

Stephanie Pan (Modulus) is a voice artist, composer, interdisciplinary maker, and performer. Pan has created and presented work at venues and festivals like CTM Berlin, Rewire Festival, Young Vic Theatre, La MaMa, BBC, Dutch National Opera, Beursschouwburg Brussel, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum Den Haag. She has collaborated with Belarus Free Theatre, filmmaker Jeanette Groenendaal, and Ensemble Klang, among others. 

Project Auske is a Manchester-based choreographic creative house working at the edges of forms, and the co-existence and intersection of ideas and practices.

Bridget Fiske (Project Auske) is a director, choreographer, performer, producer, facilitator, and writer with a 25-year international portfolio in dance, theatre, film, participatory and interdisciplinary arts. Fiske has been choreographic, movement and rehearsal director for Belarus Free Theatre and the documentary Iron Butterflies. Fiske is associate director of Sufi in The City. Other works have been presented at Cinekid Festival, The Place, Lowry, Open Amare, Illuminating York, Liverpool Biennial, and The Future (Rambert & Lowry). 

Joseph Lau (Project Auske) is an artist working in contemporary movement and choreography, with projects often exploring political, social, and economic themes. His work includes the EU-commissioned Viva… and Deeper Than All Roses for the FascinatE multimedia project with BBC, Technicolour and European partners. Lau was the inaugural Moving Dance Forward associate, and choreographed and directed Abandoned Things. Lau has performed with imitating the dog, Opera Queensland, Willi Dorner, Barking Gecko, Buzz Dance Theatre, and Dancenorth Australia. Lau is a founder of Manchester Dance Consortium.

Terry Hempfling’s work spans dance, improvisation, site-specific performance, visual art, video, and social practice, with a particular interest in ephemeral performance, embodied memory, and the ways live experiences are transmitted, documented, archived, and transformed in analog and digital media. She has worked with Phoebe Berglund, Marina Abramović, Laure Prouvost, Pierre Droulers, Ada Friendman, Anthea Hamilton, and Rachel Jendrzejewski, with whom she maintained a decade-long artistic partnership before stewarding Jendrzejewski’s artistic archive following her passing in 2025. In 2026, Hempfling founded The New Workers Dance League in Minneapolis, a public movement project developed in response to Operation Metro Surge. This summer, she presented a video and print work with Queer Arts at Beverley’s, New York City, and video at Pasture Gallery, New Hampshire.

Rachel Jendrzejewski (1982–2025) was an interdisciplinary artist and writer who frequently collaborated with choreographers, musicians, and multimedia artists to explore wide-ranging performative vocabularies. Her work was developed and/or presented by Walker Art Center, Padua Playwrights, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Tricklock Company, Joe’s Pub, The Wild Project, RISD, MASS MoCA, and ICA/Boston, among others. Published texts include MERONYMY (53rd State Press), In Which _______ and Others Discover the End, a collaboration with SuperGroup (Plays Inverse), and encyclopedia (Spout Press). Jendrzejewski was a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer and a Co-Artistic Director at Red Eye in Minneapolis.

Pramila Vasudevan is a movement-centered artist, cultural worker, and maker of community-rooted/routed transdisciplinary work. She is of Tamil descent and has been living and working in the Twin Cities, on stolen Dakota land, for the past 20-plus years. Vasudevan founded Aniccha Arts (2004–2025), an experimental arts collaborative, producing site-specific performances. She has been honored with McKnight Choreography Fellowship (2024, 2016), Joyce Award (2022), United States Artists (2022), and Guggenheim (2017). Her current practice involves gardening, hosting conversations and community gatherings, and developing improvisational movement inspired by growing practices and plant cycles in the urban wild.