OZ Arts Nashville

Botis Seva / Far From The Norm

(London, UK)

BLKDOG

October 17–19

Tickets from $25

“Seva is a supreme dance-maker who has honed Hip-hop dance into his own expressive, communicative form”

The Guardian

The breakout winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, BLKDOG brilliantly blends visceral theater and wide-ranging dance styles to invent a breathtaking movement language that unites Hip-hop, Popping, Breaking, Krump, and House.

Festival of Ghouls X

Saturday, October 26

Doors at 7PM
Show at 7:30PM

Tickets $25

“The Halloween season just wouldn’t be complete without some spooky good fun with Nashville’s favorite theatrical noir rockers Fable Cry.”

Nashville Scene

Celebrating one decade of Nashville’s most beloved Halloween event, theatrical noir rockers Fable Cry pull out all the stops for a very campy, 10th-annual edition of the Festival of Ghouls. Grab your flashlight, put on a retro costume for the great outdoors, and pull up to Halloween Camp for a thrilling night of tantalizing burlesque from Back to Black Burlesque, eye-popping circus performances from Suspended Gravity, and high-voltage tunes from Fable Cry, RobinAugust, and other special guests. 

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 a dance artist of extraordinary talent and ability”
— 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.

2024-25

Welcome to an international season of

CHANGEMAKERS

DAKHABRAKHA • BOTIS SEVA & FAR FROM THE NORM • FABLE CRY • EMMA SANDALL • THE WOOSTER GROUP • FAUSTIN LINYEKULA SOON-HO PARK & BEREISHIT DANCE COMPANY • NASHVILLE STORY GARDEN WITH NATE EPPLER & LAUREN SHOUSE • FAYE DRISCOLL • BRAVE NEW WORKS LAB 2025

Packages from $140
Individual tickets from $20

Embark on a new season of Brave New Art with electrifying performances from five different continents! Our most international and experimental lineup yet, the coming year highlights changemaking artists who are radically shifting the language of their art forms as they respond to the most urgent issues of our time.

Brave New Works Lab 2025

Artist proposals accepted through October 28th

The fourth-annual Brave New Works Lab invites daring Nashville artists to transform OZ Arts into a laboratory for the creation and premiere of new works and works-in-progress. Encouraging multimedia experimentation and collaboration across disciplines, the lab creates a safe space for high-risk artistic adventures. Projects for the Brave New Works Lab will be selected from an open call for artist proposals, open now through October 28, 2024. Artists from all performance disciplines — and especially teams of artists working across disciplines — are encouraged to apply!

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.