Mission & History

The OBIE Awarding-winning Chocolate Factory Theater values the process of creation and the spirit of experimentation; and is a leading incubator for new developments in experimental performance. The Factory's 5,000 square foot facility is home to new work by the company's Founding Artists; and provides support to over 100 Visiting Artists each year. The work of The Chocolate Factory's founding artists emphasizes multi-disciplinary collaboration combining movement, music, video and text to devise a means of storytelling that is immediate, collage-like, highly visual, and dependent on new technologies. When successful, the work is not easily categorized as theater, dance, new music, or video art and is rather a thorough intermingling of these disciplines. By extension, our curatorial values when it comes to Visiting Artists leads to work that exists across or between disciplines-work that requires new methods, more time, and a new kind of audience.

[1] Resident Artists

The creation of new work by our founding artists was the founding mission of theater et al (1999-2004) and is The Chocolate Factory's primary program activity. Under the leadership of founding artist and Artistic Director Brian Rogers, recent projects include Hot Box (2011-13), Selective Memory (2010-11) - "its connection of image and movement places it in the forefront of today's many investigations of how video can connect with live performance" - NY Times, and redevelop (death valley) (2009).

[2] Visiting Artists

When not in use for resident artist productions, The Chocolate Factory provides support to visiting artists in the form of dedicated access to our space and technical equipment, substantive creative residency periods, commissioning funds, administrative support, and a guaranteed artist fee. Our curated Visiting Artist program supports the creation of new dance, theater, music and multimedia performances in a variety of settings including early works-in-progress, and full engagements of 1 - 4 weeks.

[3] THROW

THROW is a performance-development series curated and moderated by Sarah Maxfield. It is designed to provide artists with a platform for ideas-in-progress, and to provide audiences with insight into the investigative process of performance-making. THROW is curated with a strong emphasis on artists who are investigating form as well as content, artists who are truly testing ideas and who consider the audience crucial to their developmental process. There is no formal application process for the series. If you are interested in participating in THROW, please email Sarah to express your interest by describing the nature of your artistic research. Include links to previous works, if possible, and/or invite Sarah to a rehearsal, showing, or performance.

Space & Technical

The Chocolate Factory is a 5,000 square foot renovated industrial building. Detailed specs can be found here.

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THROW

Tuesday February 7 7PM FREE

Beautiful Bone

Feburary 29 - March 3 2012

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