OZ Arts Nashville

Emma Sandall with Paul Vasterling

(Nashville, TN & Sydney, Australia)

An Ambivalent Woman of 37

Based on the novel Motherhood by Sheila Heti

November 15 & 16

Tickets from $25

“A sometimes absurdist, often darkly comic and always deeply compassionate ride”

— Dance Magazine Australia

Blending stunning movement with multimedia, live music, and theatricality, Emma Sandall confronts that most vexatious of questions: do I want a child? Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Monty Python and the golden era of silent film, the production pulls no punches — intricately dancing between dark, absurdist humor and searing honesty.

The Wooster Group

(New York, NY)

Symphony of Rats

December 6-8

Tickets from $30

“American theater’s most inspired company.” 
The New York Times 

The legendary Wooster Group transforms OZ into a sort of mad laboratory for their latest “deliriously trippy” production about a fictional U.S. president who receives messages from outer space. Featuring singing, stunts, and stupefying multi-screen visuals, Symphony of Rats is a genre-bending, multimedia thrillride from one of the world’s most innovative and influential theater companies.

Faustin Linyekula

with Heru Shabaka-Ra

(Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo)

My Body, My Archive

January 24 & 25

Tickets from $25

“Quite possibly the most important artist working on the African continent today.”

Frieze Magazine

With a gripping blend of exquisite movement, poetic text, and evocative live music, internationally acclaimed Congolese artist Faustin Linyekula reckons with what it means to seek beauty — to write or sing or dance — when surrounded by violence and loss.

DANNY SOFA

Passages of Light

September 4, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Presented in partnership with Cë Gallery
Opening reception: Thursday, October 3 from 5:30pm-7:30pm

Featuring a dreamlike landscape of vivid characters, creatures, and iconography, Danny Sofa’s dynamic paintings highlight figures who exist in states of emotional transition and transformation. Sofa’s vivid imagery is fantastical and at times nightmarish, as huddled groups create solidarity banding together, animals bark and howl, and one landscape melts into the next. Be sure to check out this collection of large-scale paintings from an exciting new voice in Nashville’s visual arts scene.