Praised as “a fascinating conceptual performance piece” by the Utah Review after its premiere at the Salt Lake Fringe Festival, An Undiscovered Room is coming to the first ever Durham Fringe Festival on November 3-4.

An Undiscovered Room is an immersive journey into lost and hidden spaces. Over the course of the performance, the audience travels through a maze constructed inside the venue with a series of poles and stitched-together curtains of found and recycled materials. The performers – dancers, musicians, poets, and actors – navigate the space alongside the audience. Specific conditions inside the maze, such as an encounter with another person, a shift in sound or lighting, etc., triggers performance scores for the artists. Dance, music, and text emerge from these encounters as each score is performed and the work unfolds in a constantly evolving labyrinth of experience, discovery, and connection.

Performances are on November 3 and 4 at The Fruit, with two showtimes each night at 7:00pm and 8:30pm. More information and tickets at the link below.

Created by Michela Dwyer and Indigo Cook. Performed by the artists of IAC alongside a cast of talented Durham musicians and dancers.

Praised as “a fascinating conceptual performance piece” by the Utah Review after its premiere at the Salt Lake Fringe Festival, An Undiscovered Room is coming to the first ever Durham Fringe Festival on November 3-4.

An Undiscovered Room is an immersive journey into lost and hidden spaces. Over the course of the performance, the audience travels through a maze constructed inside the venue with a series of poles and stitched-together curtains of found and recycled materials. The performers – dancers, musicians, poets, and actors – navigate the space alongside the audience. Specific conditions inside the maze, such as an encounter with another person, a shift in sound or lighting, etc., triggers performance scores for the artists. Dance, music, and text emerge from these encounters as each score is performed and the work unfolds in a constantly evolving labyrinth of experience, discovery, and connection.

Performances are on November 3 and 4 at The Fruit, with two showtimes each night at 7:00pm and 8:30pm. More information and tickets at the link below.

Created by Michela Dwyer and Indigo Cook. Performed by the artists of IAC alongside a cast of talented Durham musicians and dancers.

IAC is thrilled to share the bill with Side Hustle Dance Project for their project Seven. The artists of Side Hustle explore the seven deadly sins in Act One of the show, and IAC takes the stage for Act Two with the seven divine virtues.

October 23-25, 7:30pm at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center’s Leona Wagner Black Box. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets below.

IAC is thrilled to share the bill with Side Hustle Dance Project for their project Seven. The artists of Side Hustle explore the seven deadly sins in Act One of the show, and IAC takes the stage for Act Two with the seven divine virtues.

October 23-25, 7:30pm at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center’s Leona Wagner Black Box. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets below.

IAC is thrilled to share the bill with Side Hustle Dance Project for their project Seven. The artists of Side Hustle explore the seven deadly sins in Act One of the show, and IAC takes the stage for Act Two with the seven divine virtues.

October 23-25, 7:30pm at Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center’s Leona Wagner Black Box. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Tickets below.

One of our favorite events of the year! We will be presenting a short excerpt from This Is a Story, our latest opera-in=progress about the sci-fi multiverse. IAC director Indigo Cook will also present Having Never Read a Page from Moby Dick Pt II, a composition for tuned wooden planks, superball mallets, poet, and dancers.

Friday, October 16 at 7pm and Saturday, October 2 at 2pm at the Art Castle. Free and open to the public, but you must register for a ticket in advance (and they tend to sell out, so RSVP early!). Registration link below. More info on DEXO’s Sample Series here.

One of our favorite events of the year! We will be presenting a short excerpt from This Is a Story, our latest opera-in=progress about the sci-fi multiverse. IAC director Indigo Cook will also present Having Never Read a Page from Moby Dick Pt II, a composition for tuned wooden planks, superball mallets, poet, and dancers.

Friday, October 16 at 7pm and Saturday, October 2 at 2pm at the Art Castle. Free and open to the public, but you must register for a ticket in advance (and they tend to sell out, so RSVP early!). Registration link below. More info on DEXO’s Sample Series here.

6:00-8:00pm

Marmalade Library, 280 W 500 N

• Multi-Purpose Room (second floor)

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

IAC will be performing an excerpt from our latest work, This is a Story, at the gallery stroll for Material’s current exhibition After the Unmaking: New Ground.

The gallery stroll runs from 6-8pm, with performances throughout by IAC and other local artists. We will be performing from 6-6:30pm. Free and open to the public!

materialartgallery.com

6:00-8:00pm

Millcreek Library, 2266 E Evergreen Ave

• Meeting Room C (across from the cafe)

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

6:00-8:00pm

Granite Library, 3331 S 500 E

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

Interdisciplinary Arts Collective performs an intermedial realization of Cornelius Cardew's 1967 composition Treatise, featuring electro-acoustic music, dance, poetry, and projections.

A seminal work in the development of notational practices in Western experimental music history, Treatise is a graphic musical score that consists entirely of lines, curves, symbols, and white space across 193 pages. Musicians are asked to interpret these graphics into sound.

IAC's performance of Treatise expands the interpretive possibilities of Cardew's musical score into an interdisciplinary performance. Both musicians and dancers translate the notation into sound and movement, accompanied by spoken poetry and projections of the score for the audience to read in real-time alongside the performers. Together, the musicians, dancers, and poets explore what is at stake as a community when we engage with collective decision-making, individual agency, and how sound, bodies, and language can shape and challenge perceptions of reality.

Staged as part of a curatorial double-bill with Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 309, on loan to UMOCA from the National Gallery of Art. Join us upstairs at 6:00pm for a talk on the LeWitt led by a UMOCA curator. IAC’s performance begins downstairs at 6:30pm and lasts until 8:30pm. Visitors are welcome to come and go as they please and to explore the UMOCA exhibitions during the performance.

This event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is recommended.

6:00-8:00pm

Granite Library, 3331 S 500 E

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

IAC is thrilled to be returning to the Westside CultureFest with excerpts from our latest work-in-process.“This is a Story” is an experimental opera about the multiverse and the worlds/beings that populate it. The opera unfolds in a modular series of linked vignettes, each set in a different world with its own distinct sound styles, colors, materials and textures, movement languages, etc. Music, spoken and sung text, lights, and dance form the starship by which we navigate these worlds and encounter other bodies.

Join us on August 15 for an early, intimate look at some of the worlds we’re building. Free and open to the public! Studio 5400 at the festival.

Programming TBA

Pressing play at 7pm, contact us for the location

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Listening Sessions: a space to listen to music together. Each week we’ll gather on Wednesday night and press play – new music, beloved classics, sounds that stretch the definition of music, every week will be different.  You need nothing more than ears, a sense of curiosity, and a willingness to listen boldly.

Ginger Root, SHINBANGUMI and Masayoshi Takanaka, The Rainbow Goblins

*guest programmed by Jordan Reynosa

Pressing play at 7pm, contact us for the location

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Listening Sessions: a space to listen to music together. Each week we’ll gather on Wednesday night and press play – new music, beloved classics, sounds that stretch the definition of music, every week will be different.  You need nothing more than ears, a sense of curiosity, and a willingness to listen boldly.

5:00-6:30pm

Marmalade Library, 280 W 500 N

• Multi-Purpose Room (second floor)

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor and CONFESSIONS II

DANCE PARTY EDITION! Come shake it out with us at Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, 127 Jeremy Street 840 West. Pressing play at 7pm, drop in and out as you please.

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Listening Sessions: a space to listen to music together. Each week we’ll gather on Wednesday night and press play – new music, beloved classics, sounds that stretch the definition of music, every week will be different.  You need nothing more than ears, a sense of curiosity, and a willingness to listen boldly.

Interdisciplinary Arts Collective comes to the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival with An Undiscovered Room – an immersive journey into lost and hidden spaces.

Over the course of the performance, the audience travels through a maze constructed inside the venue with a series of poles and stitched-together curtains of found and recycled materials. 

The performers of Interdisciplinary Arts Collective - dancers, musicians, poets, and actors - navigate the space alongside the audience. Specific conditions inside the maze, such as an encounter with another person, a shift in sound or lighting, etc., triggers performance scores for the artists. Dance, music, and text emerge from these encounters as each score is performed and the work unfolds in a constantly evolving labyrinth of experience, discovery, and connection. 

An Undiscovered Room is interested in practices of orientation and attunement… in how we might move through the spaces where visibility and certainty twist back on themselves to blur into possibility. IAC designed the maze as a living, resonating space that invites curious travel and encourages its voyagers to explore spatial, sonic, and embodied relationships as we affect and are affected by our encounters with each other. We look forward to meeting you there among the twists and turns. 

July 24, 7:30pm; July 25, 4:30pm; July 26, 9pm | Alliance Theatre, Main Hall

Tickets on sale now!

Interdisciplinary Arts Collective comes to the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival with An Undiscovered Room – an immersive journey into lost and hidden spaces.

Over the course of the performance, the audience travels through a maze constructed inside the venue with a series of poles and stitched-together curtains of found and recycled materials. 

The performers of Interdisciplinary Arts Collective - dancers, musicians, poets, and actors - navigate the space alongside the audience. Specific conditions inside the maze, such as an encounter with another person, a shift in sound or lighting, etc., triggers performance scores for the artists. Dance, music, and text emerge from these encounters as each score is performed and the work unfolds in a constantly evolving labyrinth of experience, discovery, and connection. 

An Undiscovered Room is interested in practices of orientation and attunement… in how we might move through the spaces where visibility and certainty twist back on themselves to blur into possibility. IAC designed the maze as a living, resonating space that invites curious travel and encourages its voyagers to explore spatial, sonic, and embodied relationships as we affect and are affected by our encounters with each other. We look forward to meeting you there among the twists and turns. 

July 24, 7:30pm; July 25, 4:30pm; July 26, 9pm | Alliance Theatre, Main Hall

Tickets on sale now!

Interdisciplinary Arts Collective comes to the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival with An Undiscovered Room – an immersive journey into lost and hidden spaces.

Over the course of the performance, the audience travels through a maze constructed inside the venue with a series of poles and stitched-together curtains of found and recycled materials. 

The performers of Interdisciplinary Arts Collective - dancers, musicians, poets, and actors - navigate the space alongside the audience. Specific conditions inside the maze, such as an encounter with another person, a shift in sound or lighting, etc., triggers performance scores for the artists. Dance, music, and text emerge from these encounters as each score is performed and the work unfolds in a constantly evolving labyrinth of experience, discovery, and connection. 

An Undiscovered Room is interested in practices of orientation and attunement… in how we might move through the spaces where visibility and certainty twist back on themselves to blur into possibility. IAC designed the maze as a living, resonating space that invites curious travel and encourages its voyagers to explore spatial, sonic, and embodied relationships as we affect and are affected by our encounters with each other. We look forward to meeting you there among the twists and turns. 

July 24, 7:30pm; July 25, 4:30pm; July 26, 9pm | Alliance Theatre, Main Hall

Tickets on sale now!

6:00-8:00pm

Millcreek Library, 2266 E Evergreen Ave

• Main Meeting Room

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

Join us for Dreaming Session II, 11:00-12:30pm on July 19

Hosted at a private location, contact us for the address

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Dreaming Sessions: a space to imagine and converse. Dreaming Sessions are structured around a community-oriented conversation practice called Social Dreaming, developed by sociologist Gordon Lawrence. We gather together once a month on the new moon to talk, release our dreams into the collective (un)consciousness, and allow creativity to emerge.

6:15-7:45pm

Marmalade Library, 280 W 500 N

• Multi-Purpose Room (second floor)

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

Frédéric Chopin’s Nocturnes

Pressing play at 7pm, contact us for the location

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Listening Sessions: a space to listen to music together. Each week we’ll gather on Wednesday night and press play – new music, beloved classics, sounds that stretch the definition of music, every week will be different.  You need nothing more than ears, a sense of curiosity, and a willingness to listen boldly.

6:00-7:45pm

Marmalade Library, 280 W 500 N

• Multi-Purpose Room (second floor)

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Moving Sessions: a space to explore motion and dance. Moving Sessions are open-level dance classes hosted on the first and third Tuesday of each month. In contrast to a traditional dance technique class, Moving Sessions are focused not on codified shapes and styles, but instead on the connection between body and mind. Using improvisation-based prompts, individuals are encouraged to let imagination guide their bodies through new and unexpected movement pathways. We all have bodies that move and think and dance – Moving Sessions are meant as an open, playful, imaginative space to deepen your relationship with your body and how it moves.

Deseret Experimental Opera presents And you ghosts rise blue, an im/material opera by Interdisciplinary Arts Collective. Enter the Rift with us…

And you ghosts rise blue is an experimental pasticcio opera in three acts. Join us in the Masonic Temple for an evening of movement, sound, and light as we open a rift in the space-time continuum and call in voices past and future, real and unreal. The voices – sounding alongside a collaborative collective of dancers, musicians, poets, actors, and visual artists – form a ghostly chorus with whom we sing of the ephemeral, the infinite, and the im/possible.

June 23, 24, and 25 | Masonic Temple, Gothic Room | 8pm (gallery installation at 7pm)

Tickets on sale now!

$10 student/artist, $15 general public

Tickets sold online or at the door

Accessibility Notes:

• Runtime: approximately 70 minutes

• This performance makes use of strobe lights, long periods of blackout, and some moments of intense sound. The libretto is performed in English, Farsi, French, Italian, and Spanish, with supertitles projected in English.

• The house opens at 7pm with a Reading Room gallery installation. The performance begins at 8pm.

• The Gothic Room is a fully accessible space and there will be reserved ADA seating. Please contact us with any questions or to communicate needs in advance.

  • The ADA entrance is through the door on the south side of the Masonic Temple by the parking lot. We will have staff on site to ensure access remains available throughout the event. 

  • When you arrive please see event staff for ADA guidance.

Parking and Venue Access:

• Please park in the south lot behind the Masonic Temple, accessed from E South Temple or S 700 E

• Enter the venue from the front steps on the North side, off of E South Temple St.

Supported by Deseret Experimental Opera, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Westminster University, and ZAP.

Deseret Experimental Opera presents And you ghosts rise blue, an im/material opera by Interdisciplinary Arts Collective. Enter the Rift with us…

And you ghosts rise blue is an experimental pasticcio opera in three acts. Join us in the Masonic Temple for an evening of movement, sound, and light as we open a rift in the space-time continuum and call in voices past and future, real and unreal. The voices – sounding alongside a collaborative collective of dancers, musicians, poets, actors, and visual artists – form a ghostly chorus with whom we sing of the ephemeral, the infinite, and the im/possible.

June 23, 24, and 25 | Masonic Temple, Gothic Room | 8pm (gallery installation at 7pm)

Tickets on sale now!

$10 student/artist, $15 general public

Tickets sold online or at the door

Accessibility Notes:

• Runtime: approximately 70 minutes

• This performance makes use of strobe lights, long periods of blackout, and some moments of intense sound. The libretto is performed in English, Farsi, French, Italian, and Spanish, with supertitles projected in English.

• The house opens at 7pm with a Reading Room gallery installation. The performance begins at 8pm.

• The Gothic Room is a fully accessible space and there will be reserved ADA seating. Please contact us with any questions or to communicate needs in advance.

  • The ADA entrance is through the door on the south side of the Masonic Temple by the parking lot. We will have staff on site to ensure access remains available throughout the event. 

  • When you arrive please see event staff for ADA guidance.

Parking and Venue Access:

• Please park in the south lot behind the Masonic Temple, accessed from E South Temple or S 700 E

• Enter the venue from the front steps on the North side, off of E South Temple St.

Supported by Deseret Experimental Opera, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Westminster University, and ZAP.

Deseret Experimental Opera presents And you ghosts rise blue, an im/material opera by Interdisciplinary Arts Collective. Enter the Rift with us…

And you ghosts rise blue is an experimental pasticcio opera in three acts. Join us in the Masonic Temple for an evening of movement, sound, and light as we open a rift in the space-time continuum and call in voices past and future, real and unreal. The voices – sounding alongside a collaborative collective of dancers, musicians, poets, actors, and visual artists – form a ghostly chorus with whom we sing of the ephemeral, the infinite, and the im/possible.

June 23, 24, and 25 | Masonic Temple, Gothic Room | 8pm (gallery installation at 7pm)

Tickets on sale now!

$10 student/artist, $15 general public

Tickets sold online or at the door

Accessibility Notes:

• Runtime: approximately 70 minutes

• This performance makes use of strobe lights, long periods of blackout, and some moments of intense sound. The libretto is performed in English, Farsi, French, Italian, and Spanish, with supertitles projected in English.

• The house opens at 7pm with a Reading Room gallery installation. The performance begins at 8pm.

• The Gothic Room is a fully accessible space and there will be reserved ADA seating. Please contact us with any questions or to communicate needs in advance.

  • The ADA entrance is through the door on the south side of the Masonic Temple by the parking lot. We will have staff on site to ensure access remains available throughout the event.

  • When you arrive please see event staff for ADA guidance.

Parking and Venue Access:

• Please park in the south lot behind the Masonic Temple, accessed from E South Temple or S 700 E

• Enter the venue from the front steps on the North side, off of E South Temple St.

Supported by Deseret Experimental Opera, Salt Lake City Arts Council, Utah Division of Arts and Museums, Westminster University, and ZAP.

Join us for Dreaming Session I, 5:00-6:15pm on June 20

Hosted at Ken Sanders Rare Books, 209 E 500 S SLC as part of KSRB Utah Arts Fest!

*we’ll be at the KSRB Utah Arts Fest the day before, June 19 at 5pm, performing an excerpt from And you ghosts rise blue. Come to both!

Free and open to the public, more info on the KSRB Utah Arts Fest here.

The Sessions: embodied community gatherings

Listening | Moving | Dreaming

Dreaming Sessions: a space to imagine and converse. Dreaming Sessions are structured around a community-oriented conversation practice called Social Dreaming, developed by sociologist Gordon Lawrence. We gather together once a month on the new moon to talk, release our dreams into the collective (un)consciousness, and allow creativity to emerge.