The Seldoms

Dance theater about lawns, weeds and the politics of public space. In 2020, people in cities and suburbs across America have a complex relationship to grass—turf that operates a monocultural carpet and homogenizes our built/natural world. Another kind of grass—cannabis—makes a paired theme here, as it is increasingly legal and corporatized, and seeming to replicate the racial inequities of the war on drugs. Performed by five dancer-actors moving and laboring upon lawn-like spaces, GRASS lights up the environmental, social, and economic aspects of these cultivars, and mows down our belief that we grow grasses—rather, they grow us. With playwright Seth Bockley and animator Lisa Barcy.