OZ Arts Nashville has announced a new season of art, music and dance, including a return of the live-action comic book show from its 2014 season and the culmination of a year-long partnership between two folk musicians from opposite sides of the globe.
In addition to bringing contemporary artists to Nashville, the venue will also continues its series of “Thursday Night Things” (or “TNT”), featuring local performers and visual artists.
Family Day with Ozomatli
September 10, 2016
The season opens with the venue’s annual kid-friendly festival of activity stations and performances.
Abigail Washburn & We Fei will perform, but the headline act is the Grammy-winning multicultural band
Ozomatli.
Since I Suppose
October 5-23, 2016
Melbourne, Australia-based theater company
one step at a time like this
reworks Shakespeare’s
Measure for Measure
in this production that leaves the OZ property and sends participants on a theatrical scavenger hunt around downtown Nashville.
TNT:
Foreign Fields
November 3, 2016
The electronic folk group’s album release performance will be their only hometown show this year.
ETM: Double Down
December 9-10, 2016
Dorrance Dance, lead by
MacArthur Fellow Michelle Dorrance, perform on a cutting-edge surface they call an electronic tap floor. The dancers become musicians, triggering electronic sounds through their movements, which play in concert with a small group of live musicians.
TNT:
ALIAS Chamber Ensemble
January 24, 2017
Nashville’s Grammy nominated chamber music collective honors International Holocaust Remembrance Day with music of Oliver Messeaen and Alexandra duBois.
Hide and Seek
February 9 – March 18, 2017
OZ commissioned
Heeseop Yoon to create an installation of site-specific tape drawings and small, ink collages on a variety of scales. His work uses images of objects from across the globe, including Nashville.
Robo Planet Rising
April 28, 2017
Twin Infinity
April 29, 2017
The opening season of OZ included performances of the first book in the live-action graphic novel,
The Intergalactic Nemesis. The adventure continues with two new stories, told through a combination of old-fashioned radio drama and comic book-style images projected onstage.
Abigail Washburn & Wu Fei
June 1, 2017
Appalachian and Chinese folk music traditions weave together as a master singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo player
Abigail Washburn collaborates with guzheng virtuoso
Wu Fei.
TNT:
FALL & Mary Mooney
June 15, 2017
Nashville aerial dance company
FALL performs new choreography about overcoming obstacles, as artist
Mary Mooney paints large-scale canvases inspired by their movements.
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