ODC Theater: State of Play 2025: Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein

Lisa Fagan + Lena Engelstein: Deepe Darknesse
Friday, August 1, 2025 at 8:30pm
Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 8:00pm, ASL Interpretation
60 minutes
West Coast Premiere

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Deepe Darknesse (pronounced dee-pee dark-ness-ay) is a physically maximal, experimental dance-theater work by choreographers/theater makers Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein. In a transmogrification regiment of their own design, the performers push past their physical limits and press the edges of the playing space in a frenetic, oddball, unrelentingly theatrical Rube Goldberg machine of “curiositas improspera” or unhappy curiosity. The attempt to become something “better” (a bird?) backfires: the shows’ three worlds tangle into a gordian knot and their climactic moment is overshadowed by the glamourous entrance of underrated 1960s Italian songstress Cocki Mazzetti.

Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein are NYC-based experimental dance makers and performers whose work has been dubbed “The High Weird” by critics. They are current Live Feed artists in residence at New York Live Arts where they premiered their most recent work Friday Night Rat Catchers in Spring 2025. They are recipients of a 2025 Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Artists Grant in dance. They have performed at Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Collapsable Hole, The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in DC, Exponential Festival, Prelude Festival, CATCH, and many other stages across NYC and beyond.