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Welcome to
The Why Collective

The Why Collective is a group of artists and thinkers dedicated to a roundtable-style of artistic inception and creation. We seek to provide a place for artists of multiple disciplines to work together in a collaborative space without the traditional hierarchy of leadership roles. We invite artists to play and explore non-traditional performance practices in our creative laboratory setting, where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed. Through our own exploration of life’s deepest questions, we hope to encourage our audiences to join us in resisting and reshaping the status quo through interdisciplinary performance art.

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OPEN CALL

She Breathes Fire

The Why Collective is looking for singers, dancers, movers, sound makers (or any combination thereof), to submit an application/audition to be considered for the workshop of a new opera, She Breathes Fire, for voice and movement by Stacy Busch. Learn more here

WHAT: A paid, week-long Sound and Movement Workshop, with a public, in-progress presentation.

WHERE: HERE Arts in NYC

WHEN: October 28-November 2

WHY: To explore characters and concepts in a world-building lab, record devised musical material, and develop a movement vocabulary​

Deadline: August 15th

For Sale!

Prints of Live Drawing from Love is Strong: a happening, by Michael Arthur

The artwork (right) was made by Michael Arthur (@inklines) as a an artifact of the collective memory of the event. We think he nailed it.


Prints of this piece are available via his website, and a portion of each sale will be donated to The Why Collective.

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Thank you to everyone who supported our
 

 Inaugural Festival-in-Residence 

January - May 2023

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