WEATHERING

April 24-26, 8PM

RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes

“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”

— The New York Times

“Faye Driscoll is a post-millennium, postmodern wild woman. A wild woman with a scrupulous sense of form that she tweaks into eye-opening weirdness. Ferocious, hilarious, and disturbing…”

— Village Voice

Ten performers cling to a revolving platform, surrounded on all sides by a rapt audience witnessing the careening and awe-inspiring kinetic sculpture of vulnerable human bodies. At times, they are perfectly (almost eerily) still, and at other moments they engage in high-velocity movement that makes them seem perilously close to being flung into space — or is it the sea? Choreographer and director Faye Driscoll describes her latest work, Weathering, as a “multi-sensory flesh sculpture,” and a “morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene.” Sounds and scents add to the experience, as performers create a sonic score of voices and breaths that crescendos and resonates as we see bodies morph through physical and emotional displays of primordial fear and joy.

A singular experience that is sure to be one of the most legendary and memorable performance works of our time, Weathering created an international buzz that quickly reverberated around the world after its 2023 New York premiere, leading to touring with great acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Please note: Weathering contains nudity and loud sounds. Limited amounts of essential oils will be used within the show. Please contact the Box Office for any specific allergen queries. 

Late seating for the performance is not allowed. Seats in the front row are in close proximity to the performance. 

Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt-Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.

LUNCH DANCES

Written by Robbie Saenz de Viteri and Choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes. It's your lunch hour. Step away from your desk and into the working world of the library.

The collaborative team of Monica Bill Barnes and Robbie Saenz de Viteri, experts at "bringing dance where it doesn't belong," have created a show in the least likely of places, The New York Public Library. Moving throughout the building, audiences wear headphones for the hour-long performance, tuning them into the personal stories and meaningful movements that may dwell in any corner of the Library’s collections.

NYPL Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 476 5th Ave, New York NY 

May 5 – 10 (Monday – Saturday), twice a day at 11:30am and 1:30pm 
May 12 – 17 (Monday – Saturday), twice a day at 11:30am and 1:30pm 

Tickets will be available for reservation on Monday April 21st at noon EST.

To join | Check-in will begin 20 minutes before the event begins at the Information Desk in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Visitor Center located on the first floor. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the stated event time. The event will begin promptly as scheduled; we are unable to accommodate any ticket holders who arrive past the stated start time.

Due to limited capacity, please reserve tickets for only one event. Standby tickets will not be available for this event.

ABOUT MONICA BILL BARNES & COMPANY

Monica Bill Barnes & Company was founded in 1997 as a New York based dance company. The company began with a suitcase of costumes and a collection of solos that could be performed anywhere. Since its founding, Barnes has worked with many artists and performers, including long time collaborators/designers Jane Cox and Kelly Hanson and performer Anna Bass in developing relatable work with a subversive sense of humor. Since 2013, MBB&CO has been co-led by Monica in partnership with Robbie Saenz de Viteri where the mission evolved to “bringing dance where it doesn’t belong.”

Together, Monica and Robbie make performances that combine their shared interest in the underlying comedy at work in our lives and make shows that hope to find something sacred in the mundane. They cross genres between dance, theater, storytelling, creative nonfiction, feminist treatises, and comedy. Their work has traveled to a wide range of theaters ranging from off-Broadway's WP Theater to The Sydney Opera House, and many in between. They've also created performances in malls, conference rooms, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and interactive websites. They redefine what constitutes performance in every show, while maintaining the audience's experience as the center of everything they create. Their work has been honored by the Bessie Awards, the Lilly Awards, and the Chita Rivera Awards, as well as numerous foundations.

WEATHERING

Marseille, France | Athens, Greece | Amsterdam, Netherlands

June 15 - July 7

“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”

— The New York Times

“Faye Driscoll is a post-millennium, postmodern wild woman. A wild woman with a scrupulous sense of form that she tweaks into eye-opening weirdness. Ferocious, hilarious, and disturbing…”

— Village Voice

Ten performers cling to a revolving platform, surrounded on all sides by a rapt audience witnessing the careening and awe-inspiring kinetic sculpture of vulnerable human bodies. At times, they are perfectly (almost eerily) still, and at other moments they engage in high-velocity movement that makes them seem perilously close to being flung into space — or is it the sea? Choreographer and director Faye Driscoll describes her latest work, Weathering, as a “multi-sensory flesh sculpture,” and a “morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene.” Sounds and scents add to the experience, as performers create a sonic score of voices and breaths that crescendos and resonates as we see bodies morph through physical and emotional displays of primordial fear and joy.

A singular experience that is sure to be one of the most legendary and memorable performance works of our time, Weathering created an international buzz that quickly reverberated around the world after its 2023 New York premiere, leading to touring with great acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Please note: Weathering contains nudity and loud sounds. Limited amounts of essential oils will be used within the show. Please contact the Box Office for any specific allergen queries. 

Late seating for the perfomance is not allowed. Seats in the front row are in close proximity to the performance. 

Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt-Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.

WEATHERING

June 2025 (Dates & times TBD)

RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes

TICKETS (on sale Apr. 24)

“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”

— The New York Times

“Faye Driscoll is a post-millennium, postmodern wild woman. A wild woman with a scrupulous sense of form that she tweaks into eye-opening weirdness. Ferocious, hilarious, and disturbing…”

— Village Voice

Ten performers cling to a revolving platform, surrounded on all sides by a rapt audience witnessing the careening and awe-inspiring kinetic sculpture of vulnerable human bodies. At times, they are perfectly (almost eerily) still, and at other moments they engage in high-velocity movement that makes them seem perilously close to being flung into space — or is it the sea? Choreographer and director Faye Driscoll describes her latest work, Weathering, as a “multi-sensory flesh sculpture,” and a “morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene.” Sounds and scents add to the experience, as performers create a sonic score of voices and breaths that crescendos and resonates as we see bodies morph through physical and emotional displays of primordial fear and joy.

A singular experience that is sure to be one of the most legendary and memorable performance works of our time, Weathering created an international buzz that quickly reverberated around the world after its 2023 New York premiere, leading to touring with great acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Please note: Weathering contains nudity and loud sounds. Limited amounts of essential oils will be used within the show. Please contact the Box Office for any specific allergen queries. 

Late seating for the perfomance is not allowed. Seats in the front row are in close proximity to the performance. 

Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt-Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.

WEATHERING

June 27-29, 9PM

RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes

TICKETS

Weathering: a work suspended between the realms of visual and sound installation, performance, and dance; a choreography woven from layers of senses, scents, liquids, vibrations, and, most poignantly, the raw poetry and evocative imagery of bodies, caught in a symphony of motion and frozen stillness. Among the twelve or so works by American dancer and choreographer Faye Driscoll, Weathering—which premiered in 2023—has garnered the most attention, introducing her to a broader European audience. In this piece, Driscoll—renowned for her deep commitment to fostering a palpable connection between performers and audiences that transcends into a state of coexistence—assigns a central role to sound. The choreography itself is meticulously crafted, intricate, and multi-layered, akin to a living sculpture that experiences varying degrees of density, enacting a tableau vivant. The bodies remain in unbroken contact, moving in unison and shifting forms like a fabric being woven and unravelled or like a landscape transforming under light and the changes of the seasons. A continuous flow of energy envelops the stage, creating an immediate visceral and emotional connection that passes between dancers and audience members.

At its core, this is a complex work that, as The New York Times describes, “doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, nor can you imagine thinking it up.” It invites reflection on how nature and biology shape the human body as a collective and political subject. Weathering has been met with enthusiastic acclaim in both Europe and the United States.

“The artist Faye Driscoll has always taken her performers and audiences to the edge, or tried to, but never so completely as in ‘Weathering’, an enthralling, epically adventurous work.” The New York Times

“A feast for the eyes—and the senses. In a sensual yet unsettling cataclysm, it reminds us of the urgency of living.” Le Devoir

“One of the few contemporary artists who effectively place artistic disciplines in conversation—drawing on theatre, dance, and installation art without using any of them to critique the others.” Walker

WEATHERING

July 4+5, 9PM

July 6, 3:30PM

RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes

TICKETS

Weathering: a work suspended between the realms of visual and sound installation, performance, and dance; a choreography woven from layers of senses, scents, liquids, vibrations, and, most poignantly, the raw poetry and evocative imagery of bodies, caught in a symphony of motion and frozen stillness. Among the twelve or so works by American dancer and choreographer Faye Driscoll, Weathering—which premiered in 2023—has garnered the most attention, introducing her to a broader European audience. In this piece, Driscoll—renowned for her deep commitment to fostering a palpable connection between performers and audiences that transcends into a state of coexistence—assigns a central role to sound. The choreography itself is meticulously crafted, intricate, and multi-layered, akin to a living sculpture that experiences varying degrees of density, enacting a tableau vivant. The bodies remain in unbroken contact, moving in unison and shifting forms like a fabric being woven and unravelled or like a landscape transforming under light and the changes of the seasons. A continuous flow of energy envelops the stage, creating an immediate visceral and emotional connection that passes between dancers and audience members.

At its core, this is a complex work that, as The New York Times describes, “doesn’t look like anything you’ve ever seen before, nor can you imagine thinking it up.” It invites reflection on how nature and biology shape the human body as a collective and political subject. Weathering has been met with enthusiastic acclaim in both Europe and the United States.

“The artist Faye Driscoll has always taken her performers and audiences to the edge, or tried to, but never so completely as in ‘Weathering’, an enthralling, epically adventurous work.” The New York Times

“A feast for the eyes—and the senses. In a sensual yet unsettling cataclysm, it reminds us of the urgency of living.” Le Devoir

“One of the few contemporary artists who effectively place artistic disciplines in conversation—drawing on theatre, dance, and installation art without using any of them to critique the others.” Walker

MAnY happy returns

Many Happy Returns is like a memory play, if memory plays had more dances. There is language. There is movement. There is the possibility that it'll never be this way again. And there's the possibility that it will always be the same.

Presented by Monica Bill Barnes & Company

Choreography by Monica Bill Barnes, Written by Robbie Saenz de Viteri

Performed by Monica Bill Barnes, Robbie Saenz de Viteri, Flannery Gregg, Mykel Marai Nairne, Indah Mariana

Associate Producer Elizabeth Furman | Rehearsal Director Flannery Gregg

August 2-3, 2025 @ Times TBD

August 8-10, 2025 @ Times TBD

Williamstown Theater Festival

TICKETS

WEATHERING

August 13-17, 8PM

RUNTIME: Approx. 75 minutes

TICKETS

“An enthralling, epically adventurous work”

— The New York Times

“Faye Driscoll is a post-millennium, postmodern wild woman. A wild woman with a scrupulous sense of form that she tweaks into eye-opening weirdness. Ferocious, hilarious, and disturbing…”

— Village Voice

Ten performers cling to a revolving platform, surrounded on all sides by a rapt audience witnessing the careening and awe-inspiring kinetic sculpture of vulnerable human bodies. At times, they are perfectly (almost eerily) still, and at other moments they engage in high-velocity movement that makes them seem perilously close to being flung into space — or is it the sea? Choreographer and director Faye Driscoll describes her latest work, Weathering, as a “multi-sensory flesh sculpture,” and a “morphing tableau vivant on a mobile raft-like stage surging through the Anthropocene.” Sounds and scents add to the experience, as performers create a sonic score of voices and breaths that crescendos and resonates as we see bodies morph through physical and emotional displays of primordial fear and joy.

A singular experience that is sure to be one of the most legendary and memorable performance works of our time, Weathering created an international buzz that quickly reverberated around the world after its 2023 New York premiere, leading to touring with great acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and North America.

Please note: Weathering contains nudity and loud sounds. Limited amounts of essential oils will be used within the show. Please contact the Box Office for any specific allergen queries. 

Late seating for the perfomance is not allowed. Seats in the front row are in close proximity to the performance. 

Weathering is commissioned and produced by New York Live Arts as part of the New York Live Arts Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist Program, and co-commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Joyce Theater Foundation’s Artist Residency Center made possible by lead funding from The Mellon Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Theater der Welt 2023 in Frankfurt-Offenbach, and Julidans Amsterdam. Additional support provided by members of Faye Driscoll’s Commissioners Circle, New York State Council on the Arts, Café Royal Cultural Foundation, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and developed with residency support from Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson Hole, WY, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University, and the Pillow Lab at Jacob’s Pillow.