The setting — a municipal parking lot on the Lower East Side — plays the biggest role, challenging audiences and actors to focus and improvise and often leading to unscripted discoveries.
Butoh remains one of the most controversial forms of Japanese contemporary dance, challenging audiences with its enigmatic and often violent imagery.
The gig, on Tuesday, was part of the Konceptions series at Korzo, booked by the musician James Carney, who's doing a quietly heroic job of challenging audiences and keeping the house piano in tune.
Located on an empty lot on Ashwin Street near Dalston Junction station, Dalston House is the latest in a series of projects by Erlich that seem to defy the laws of physics, challenging audiences' sense of reality.
Performing the unabridged version could take as long as a week, challenging audiences and the performers.
Tension builds, and the score swells, but what happens next is a surprise, one that challenges audience expectations.
The large, enthusiastic, if bronchially challenged, audience was invited to approach on Ravel's terms and it did.
At 74, Ms. Lavin was declining bigger shows so she could play Rita Lyons, a mother who challenges audience sympathies from the opening moments of Mr. Silver's play.
I think BioWare were trying to produce a moment of great art, something that would challenge audience expectations.
In the work, Acosta also employ texts he created as a "protest anthem," the idea being that the piece challenges audience assumptions.
