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Discover our 2026 Season, which offers bold, transformative productions that offer new perspectives on art and culture. These premieres and commissions from leading artistic voices expand our expectations of what dance, theater, visual art, and performance can be.
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Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Romeo & Juliet Suite
This site-specific dance-drama by celebrated choreographer, director, and filmmaker Benjamin Millepied reimagines Prokofiev’s iconic ballet through a contemporary lens by exceeding the parameters of a traditional stage setting with live cameras following the dancers throughout the Armory’s entire building. With the lead roles performed by different configurations of gender pairings for each performance, the piece breaks from stereotypical couple roles in a universal celebration of love.
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Wade Thompson Drill Hall
clinamen
Acclaimed artist, musician, and composer Céleste Boursier-Mougenot presents the largest iteration to date of his ongoing aquatic and musical installation, featuring a series of circular basins filled with water in which ordinary ceramic bowls float and gently collide to produce melodious chiming sounds. These physical and sonic configurations are constantly changing, creating a bespoke auditory experience that invites audiences to contemplate time and sound as both individual and collective experiences.
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Wade Thompson Drill Hall
The Cherry Orchard
Award-winning director and dramatist Simon Stone returns to the Armory with his radical adaptation of Chekhov’s final play about a family in crisis. Reimagined in modern-day South Korea and brought to life in a transparent glass house by an all-Korean cast, this tragicomedy offers audiences a voyeuristic view into the characters’ private lives as they navigate change and domestic conflict.
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Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Music For 18 Musicians: Staged Variations
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of its premiere and the 90th birthday of its composer Steve Reich, the musical visionary Alan Pierson stages this masterpiece in a durational cycle by enveloping audiences to reveal the intricate structure of the composition, performed by three generations of musicians with connective interludes by special guests to hear the iconic composition anew and from within.
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Wade Thompson Drill Hall
Balkan Erotic Epic
Visionary performance artist Marina Abramović returns to the Armory to realize the North American premiere of her largest-scale performance work to date, combining dance, song, and ritual to experience dramatic adaptations of Balkan mythology and folklore enacted by a cast of 50 performers. The durational work commissioned by the Armory merges traditional elements of performance with sensuality and eroticism, removing modern taboos to reclaim the body as a site of power, mystery, and transformation.
Still to Come in 2025
Our 2025 Season features bold and transformative experiences including North American and world premieres from leading artistic voices that subvert and expand expectations of what contemporary music, visual art, and performance can be.
Wade Thompson Drill Hall
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
This cult book of fables and myths that radically reimagines the history of the world through a queer lens is given a thrilling new life as a cabaret-like spectacle directed and written by Ted Huffman with music by Philip Venables.
Making Space at the Armory
Artist Talk: Philip Venables & Ted Huffman
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions creators Philip Venables and Ted Huffman are joined in conversation with comedian, musician, and writer Morgan Bassichis and original book illustrator Ned Asta.
Recital Series
Attacca Quartet
Versatile ensemble Attacca Quartet brings audiences a program of classic quartets by Bartók and Mendelssohn, quartet-arranged interpretations of signal works for other instrumentation, and the North American premiere of “Daisy” by David Lang.
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