PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
SCHEDULE
AUGUST 29
11:00 AM
OPENING DAY FREE COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHOPS LED BY FESTIVAL ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE (more info TBA)
1:00 PM
CALPULLI DANZA MEXICANA: NATIVE MEXICO: DANCES OF THE FIRST PEOPLES
3:00 PM
BALLEZ: TRAVESTY DOLL PLAY (AFTER COPPÉLIA)
5:00 PM
ANNA SPERBER: BOW ECHO
7:00 PM
VALERIE JUNE
SEPTEMBER 5
12:00 PM
FIRE LIGHTING CEREMONY (more info TBA)
1:00 PM
PLAYWRIGHTS’ PLATFORM: PROGRAM 1
SEPTEMBER 6 1:00 PM
ARTS WALK WITH 2026 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION CURATOR + ARTISTS
SEPTEMBER 11 7:00 PM
ARTIST TALK: EVIDENCE & MASTERZ AT WORK
SEPTEMBER 12
1:00 PM
RONALD K. BROWN/EVIDENCE: TORCH and WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES THROUGH
2:30 PM
COURTNEY BALENCIAGA WASHINGTON AND MASTERZ AT WORK: ALL INCLUSIVE and THE 24/7 DINER
6:00 PM
MIGUEL GUTIERREZ: SADONNA
7:15 PM
INTERFAITH FIRE LIGHTING (more details TBA)
AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT
ANNUAL FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL TICKET DEALS
The more events you attend, the deeper the discounts.
One performance ticket is $25. ($15. for students). Performance tickets do no include evening concerts.
Ticket Combo Packages:
- A two-performance ticket bundle is $40. ($25. for students)
- A three-performance ticket bundle is $50. ($30. for students) *only available 8/29*
- Add an evening concert ticket to your bundle and receive a $10 discount. This all-day pass maximizes discounts!Individual evening concert tickets bought before August 1 receive a $10 discount. Use code EARLYBIRD10 by July 31.
AVAILABLE THROUGHout Annual festival
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 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.
Project Auske: TITLE
Rachel Jendrzejewski and Terry Hempfling
LAURA CURRY, CITA EN BICI / BIKE DATE
Book directly with the artist onsite during the festival, August 29–September 12
From an earnest conversation while biking, choreographer and social practice artist Laura Curry has turned a seemingly simple research process, started in 2013 in South and North American cities, into a sisterhood of mothers, daughters, aunties, grandmas, and fem/trans individuals who are also cyclists. Share stories while on a bike ride with Laura on the Empire State Trail or your local neighborhood route.
Laura Curry is an artist, educator, and researcher focusing on environmental and social justice through a feminist, queer perspective. Her practice includes collaboration, critical pedagogy, installation, media production, activism, performance, and writing. Curry holds an MFA in Media Art Production from SUNY Buffalo, is a published member of the Collective EnJust Network for environmental justice, Kiel Germany, and the American Association of Geographers.
Curry moves across social and political borders, working predominantly in the US and Mexico, where she presents her art, and teaches critical pedagogy at universities and research institutions. Her work has been exhibited at Queens Museum, DOCUMENTA 13, Yes We Cannibal (Baton Rouge), ISEA (Albuquerque), On the Boards and Hugo House (Seattle), PICA’s TBA Festival (Portland), The Southern Theater (Minneapolis), ODC Theater (San Francisco), Bauhaus-Universität (Weimar), and in Mexico at The Guapamacátaro Center for Art and Ecology (Michoacan), and Artes del Tecnológico de Monterrey, NoAutomatico, and LAB Nuevo Leon (Monterrey).
2026 VISUAL ARTS EXHIBITION
Open Mondays to Fridays, 9AM–5PM and two hours before festival events
Lobby Gallery + Grounds (indoors and outdoors)
Free
Thea Berman: Heaven Doesn’t LoveYou, Baby! (2025), The Monkey & the Swan (2025), Misc. En Scene (2024-2025), Home to You? (2025), Odyssey (2025), Hitting a Wall (Triptych) (2025), Fight Club (2025)
Sharon Broit: Heart Feels (2024), The Wind that Lets us Breathe (2023), Echoing Heart (2024), Inside my present self (2023), Even in the Quietest Moments (2018), The Conversation (2022), Feeling Mind (2023), Lightness of Being (2023),
Outside In, What went before also came afterVirginia L. Montgomery: Honey Moon in Blue (2025), Vestal Virgin Vengance (2024), Moon Moth Bed (2023), Luna Belle (2023)
Aurora Robson: Gypsy Moths (2018)
Gaston Lachaise: Floating Woman (1927)
Nadia Yaron: Venus Flower (2025)
Kris Perry: Sylph (2026), Mother and Child (2026)
Ian McMahon: Shrink Wall .001 (2023)
Laura Battle: Clouds (pareidolia) (2026)
Portia Munson: Flower Mask (2020)
Gaston Lachaise: Torso of Elevation (1912-27/1934)
The 2026 Annual Festival is made possible, in part, through funding of individual programs by the following entities and partners: New England Foundation for the Arts, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, Thendara Foundation, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, Sarah Arison, and other generous individual underwriters. Kaatsbaan’s programs are 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.