Brave New Works Lab 2025

Featuring

WINDSHIP BOYD & TUMELO MICHAEL MOLOI

LANDRY BUTLER & INGLEWOOD SOCIAL CLUB

STACIE FLOOD-POPP / FOUND MOVEMENT GROUP

KOURTNEY “KOKO” FRENCH

May 15-17 at 8PM

Tickets from $20

“One of the most interesting and dynamic presentations of locally grown talent.”

– Nashville Scene

Celebrate local innovation and creativity with a bold evening of entirely original short-form performances featuring dance, theater, music, and multimedia. 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. Following up on the success of 2024’s ambitious Lab presentations, this year’s event promises to be the biggest and bravest Lab yet.

2025 ARTIST LINE-UP

WINDSHIP BOYD &
TUMELO MICHAEL MOLOI

South African gumboot dance and the step-dance tradition of HBCU’s collide in this explosive, cross-cultural new work featuring dynamic original choreography and expressive live music.

LANDRY BUTLER &
INGLEWOOD SOCIAL CLUB

Underground art music collective Inglewood Social Club creates a visually stunning multimedia experience with an abstract, silent black and white film and live accompaniment.

STACIE FLOOD-POPP / FOUND MOVEMENT GROUP

A dozen dancers from Found Movement Group create a highly theatrical new dance work inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s famous artwork The Garden of Earthly Delights.

KOURTNEY “KOKO” FRENCH

Eight of Nashville’s most talented dancers use powerful Hip-hop choreography to explore the limited nature of time and the ways we all battle to make the most of each moment.

Artist Applications for the 2025 Brave New Works Lab have closed. 2026 Lab applications will open in Fall 2025. Sign up for our email list to receive announcements and updates about future opportunities.

Through the Brave New Works Lab and other local programs, OZ Arts strives to create meaningful opportunities for artists from Middle Tennessee to imagine, develop, and premiere new performance works. We hope artists can focus on the creative process and collaboration, without being overly burdened by the normal trappings of self-production, such as marketing, administration, detailed technical matters and venue management.

Questions about the Brave New Works Lab?
Contact OZ’s Associate Director of Programming & Partnerships Daniel Jones at daniel@ozartsnashville.org.