Lunar Retreat
Lunar Retreat performances will premiere September 9-20, 2026 at Leonard Pearlstein Gallery presented by the FringeArts festival. Lunar Retreat is an interactive, multi-sensory performance inspired by…
The River’s Course
The River’s Course was a participatory and site-responsive project created on the grounds of the Bohnice mental health hospital in Prague, Czech Republic. Performed by…
The Garden
The Garden is an adaptive performance installation designed for 6 participants at a time. The Garden premiered in 2013 and has lived in many forms, locations and languages….
Being/With:Home
Being/With:Home Being/With:Home is a participatory performance experience that connects two solo audience members at a time, each in their own home. A guided interaction with a…
Sneakers
When someone departs your life they also enter it in a new way. Sneakers is about that shift. Created and performed by Nichole Canuso in…
Being/With
Being/With is a performance experience that connects two solo audience members at a time, each in a different location. A guided interaction with a stranger, Being/With…
Body of Text
How do we forge connections between disparate modes of expression? Can we register information in many ways simultaneously? Through kinesthetic touch, visual understanding, vocal resonance,…
We Spar Down the Lane
In a playfully exaggerated portrait of human nature, five female characters with opposing agendas struggle for both power and acceptance in We Spar Down the…
Pandæmonium
This dream has been modified from its original version. It has been formatted to fit your screen. I didn’t fall for you at the movies….
The Royal We
A sullen prince escapes castle life and finds himself in an unfamiliar forest. He encounters witches, ghosts and an elusive love. Humorous, beautiful, and strange,…
Return Return Departure
Just before sunset, two dancers meet in the garden and a duet unfolds. Commissioned by the American Philosophical Society, NCDC’s Return Return Departure is a…
TAKES
A shimmering world of film noir dream comes to life in TAKES. Conceived by Canuso and multimedia artist Lars Jan, TAKES is an unusual exploration…
Wandering Alice
Taking inspiration from both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by surrealist novelist Haruki Murakami, Wandering Alice transforms its…
Short Works
Fail Better Inspired by “Samuel Beckett’s Act without words I: a mime for one player” Canuso navigates the everchanging rules of her environment. Created in…
As the Eyes of the Seahorse
NCDC teams with indie band The Mural and the Mint for a live concert fused with immersive choreography. Dancers and musicians continuously trade places as…
Midway Avenue
The house you grew up in squeezes into your current home, bending walls, twinning rooms, tilting windows. Midway Avenue is a one-woman dance-story-map-tour of that…
“Magical, deeply moving. Left traces of memories of the experience long afterward”
“The Garden touched the very core of my being. It was an astonishing, transformative experience that broke through the malaise the pandemic and preceding years brought on. It was intensely intimate while being shared—and even a little exposing. I was moved to an almost dream-like state.”
“You have a genius for participatory art. It is fun, enlightening and healing.”
“I'm still VIBRATING from the energy, truly such a wonderful experience.”
“It made me cry. The language was so powerful without being pretentious. It was just enough to help me draw the parallels in my own life.”