The performance Broken Theater is as complex and unique as its creator and cannot be captured in words alone. It must be felt, sensed and experienced.

Broken Theater

Aarhus Music Hall

Enjoy the New York premiere of Dance in the Park, a tender, joyful, and fiercely experimental performance featuring dancers Julia Eichten and Bret Easterling. With music by Strauss and Juniper, this piece embraces phases, geographies, and dreams—glitching between dimensions to celebrate the evolution of movement.

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“Dance in the Park” – Run AMOC

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Broken Theater is a new work created within the walls of La MaMa that melds live dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. Twelve artists meet in a ghost theater where they grapple with love, humiliation, and loss at the cost of each other. When the script has disappeared, when the audience is gone, where are the lines between the part you play and the person you are?

Broken Theater: Benefit Night

Ellen Stewart Theatre

Bobbi Jene Smith’s Broken Theater

In collaboration with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect series, AMOC* invites you to an evening of close listening and engagement with sound, silence, movement, and space. With performances of compositions by Michael Pisaro, Jennifer Walshe, Jürg Frey, Carolyn Chen, and more, artists will explore physical awareness, attention to each other, and the spontaneity of personal and collective responses. Listeners are encouraged to begin arriving when doors open at 7pm to engage with Pisaro’s “Space” and other pieces of music.

Ensemble Connect Up Close: Space(S)

Carnegie Hall

AMOC*’s first collaboration with Carolyn Chen, How to Fall Apart describes cosmic, natural, and human processes of disintegration, aging, and falling apart. This evening-length work for three dancers, one violinist, and one cellist integrates text, gesture, and music, building upon Chen’s long-standing compositional work “in which sensuality and abstraction find common ground” (LA Times). How to Fall Apart unfolds as various assemblages of sound, movement, and storytelling cohere, dissolve, and reform, telling personal and scientific stories about the climate crisis, cosmological history, the erosion of soil in Northern Chad, the aging body, The Billion Oyster Project in New York, and the operations of microbes.

How to Fall Apart (New York Premiere)

Baryshnikov Arts Center

Broken Theater, Bobbi Jene Smith’s newest work that melds live dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty, continues its premiere run at OZ Arts in Nashville, TN

Broken Theater explores themes of power, love and trust in a threading together of dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. It presents a company caught in the theatrics of rehearsal. Company members, preparing for a show, perform music by Schubert, Bach, Connie Converse, and Pete Seeger, exquisitely curated and choreographed. But signals are crossed; the chain of command breaks down; the artists repeat, rebuild, and take apart the moment of performance.

Broken Theater At Oz Arts

OZ Arts Nashville

Broken Theater explores themes of power, love and trust in a threading together of dance-theater, music, and cinematic beauty. It presents a company caught in the theatrics of rehearsal. Company members, preparing for a show, perform music by Schubert, Bach, Connie Converse, and Pete Seeger, exquisitely curated and choreographed. But signals are crossed; the chain of command breaks down; the artists repeat, rebuild, and take apart the moment of performance

Broken Theater At Carolina Performing Arts

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

﻿When hard-headed British phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle under his wing to transform her into a lady, cultures clash and Higgins and Eliza form an unlikely bond. With timeless songs like “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly” and “I Could Have Danced All Night”, the Opera Saratoga version will be a love letter to theater, with 10 singing actors playing all the roles and two pianists forming the orchestra. Directed by Mary Birnbaum and choreographed by Julia Eichten, the production will be music directed by Adam Nielsen.

Julia Eichten

Events

Upcoming events

20 - 28 Jun, 2026

My Fair Lady · Opera Saratoga

Past events

10 - 11 Jan, 2026

Broken Theater · Musikhuset Aarhus

9 - 10 Jul, 2025

“Dance in the Park” – Run AMOC · AMOC / American Modern Opera Company

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