[ ] (2021-present)

[ ] by Adrienne Westwood and Angélica Negón

premieres

October 23-25, 2026

Doxsee Theater at Target Margin,

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

[ ] is a corporeal and sonic exploration into histories of female and femme ancestors created in collaboration with composer Angélica Negrón and an ensemble of creatives and performers. Together, we create an embodied exploration of untold and imagined histories. Weaving throughout a suspended interactive sculpture, the group uses performance’s hyper-attentive care to call in and hold experiences of private and personal memories of family lore, real/imagined histories, and femme ancestor's visible/invisible labor, ultimately asking “what is long ago but still right now?"

Direction: Adrienne Westwood and Angélica Negrón

Choreography: Adrienne Westwood

Music: Angélica Negrón

Performed and co-created by Rebecca Fitton, Solana Hoffman-Carter,

Kathryn Nusa Logan, Amanda Kmett’Pendry, Katie Swords Thurman, Marissa Truitt, Sugar

Vendil, and Laura Witsken. Production Design: Seth Easter. Video Dramaturgy/Production

Design: Kathryn Nusa Logan

Lighting Design: Sasha Finley

Sound Design and Ableton Technician: Drew Sensue-Weinstein

Instrument Electronics Design: Nick Yulman

Costume

Design: Quinn Czejkowski

Digital Consultancy: Brandon Epperson

Audio Programmer: Alex Ring Gray

Additional Projection Contributions: Allison Costa

Rehearsal Director: Katie Swords Thurman

Coordinating Producer: Lilach Orenstein

Read the review of our preview performances at ODC Theater, San Francisco.

The development and sharing of [ ] has been made possible by:

NYSCA Support for Artists; A Harvestworks Artist Residency; A Groundworks Residency; A Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant; A residency in the SLIPPAGE Lab at Northwestern University, dir. by professor Thomas DeFrantz; A residency in the Barnard Movement Lab; The MOtiVE Brooklyn For the Artsts! Residency program; The LMCC Arts Center of Governors Island Rehearsal Week Program; BRIClab 2021 at BRIC Brookly; and a Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Space Grant in the David Rubenstein Atrium. Commissioning of Negrón's music was generously funded by the Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation.

Electronic Press Kit

robot sensorium (in development)

robot sensorium is a new work in development featuring two human and two robot performers. The work seeks to integrate these four beings—alongside simple scavenged materials that would otherwise be trash, and digital screens—into a field of interrelated stories. I come to this work with a bias: I deeply believe that human performers are already the most brilliant technology there is. So why attempt choreography in relation to robotics? What might the frictions, failures, and unexpected exchanges between human and robot bodies reveal about our evolving relationship with technology—and how we move forward within it?

In development throughout 2026, robot sensorium is created in collaboration with performers Nikki Cologne and Katherine Paola DeLa Crus, my longtime design parter Seth Easter, and the field's premier robotics engineer.

The development and sharing of robot sensorium is made possible by The Puffin Foundation and NYSCA Support for Artists, and by residencies at The Movement Lab at Barnard College and LMCC Arts Center on Governors Island.

night-light (2025)

What is it to be alive in this moment? I created night-light in close collaboration with the 30 second-year students at my alma mater, University of North Carolina School of the Arts. I started with an image I discovered quite by accident – a lantern made of a discarded white plastic bag and an iPhone flashlight – and the work became a meditation and a call toward beauty and aliveness. Featuring original track by Sam Slate/Diva Nigun.

box/truck (2023)

box/truck is an interdisciplinary performance work that uses the stories of writer/director Adrienne Westwood’s maternal grandparents’ assimilation as the children of Jewish immigrants to create a gateway into the exploration of told/untold stories of inheritance. box/truck features performers Ana Evans and Eleonore Weill and premiered at The Old Stone House in October 2023. It was made possible with support from The Brooklyn Arts Council.

Spaceship made of toothpicks (2023)

Spaceship made of toothpicks is a new small-group investigation that applies my decade-long explorations of embodying history and memory toward a hypothetically-distant future. Working with collaborators, I work to weave threads of non-linear time, imagery and text to ask "what might it mean to miss what we already have?"

s o u n d i n g line (2019)

s o u n d i n g line asks what it means to belong as a woman to a family line: what is the interplay between caregiving and loneliness; does inter-generational experience persist into present embodiment? Created within Snug Harbor’s historic cottage, the performers create, inhabit and transform a recalling of individual and collective pasts through movement, shadow play, and manipulation of simple elements — cloth, rope, paper, and light.

calling (ongoing)

Initiated during the pandemic as a way to connect with others across distance, I began calling : a series of micro works for voicemail in which participants call in to hear an evolving text and sound work. Each outgoing voicemail’s first-person narration addresses the listener directly; coupled with sound samples from Angélica Negrón and editing by Kathryn Logan, the resulting micro works investigate themes of ancestral memory and embodiment. Each ends with the invitation for the listener to leave a message in response, which could potentially be folded into future iterations of the project. When a participant calls the number and hears the outgoing message in calling, each listener is quite literally “called in” to the potential of a new awareness of ancestral memory.

Green trees with letters reading: calling, micro works for voicemail. (917)524-7327l.

Record (2012)

Created for One Arm Red's unique space in DUMBO, Brooklyn, Record was my first in a series of hybrid works exploring history and memory through embodiment, object and site.

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Adrienne Westwood Projects is a project of VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation, a 501(c)(3) public charity recognized by the IRS as VIA Collaborative Arts Corporation. We are also registered with the New York State Charities Registration Bureau. Our Federal EIN is 20-2838552 and our NYS Charities Registration Number is 21-21-53.

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