Ann Glaviano performs an animal dance. The audience will turn off and on the stage lights, among other things. New Orleans premiere at New Marigny Theatre in the Ninth Ward. Limited tickets ($25) for an intimate audience. Advance tickets required. Click your preferred date to buy:

Wednesday, July 22, 2026 – 7pm
Thursday, July 23, 2026 – 7pm
Friday, July 24, 2026 – 7pm
Saturday, July 25, 2026 – 7pm

an animal dance is an unusual show in that some members of the audience will have cues for lights, sound, props, and other scenic and production elements. There is a consent form built into your ticket purchase; you can opt into the parts that require cues. I need between 10-12 people to opt in. You will only have one cue. Although the show requires audience participation to operate, everyone in the audience remains seated, and every seat has great sight lines.

Doors open at 6:30pm; show starts at 7pm. Please aim to arrive closer to 6:30pm than 7pm, so that we can distribute the cues and make sure everyone gets settled in. I will answer any questions you have before we begin. There will be no late seating.

The run time for the show is 90 minutes.

New Marigny Theatre is in an ADA-accessible church building. Seating is on folding chairs. Street parking is free.

Email Ann with questions: ann.glaviano@gmail.com

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SOLO / CREATED WITH SUPPORT FROM THE FOLLOWING: The New Orleans premiere of an animal dance is supported in part by funding from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation; a spring 2026 residency at Other Plans Gallery; and a 2026-2027 residency at New Marigny Theatre. MVP shoutouts: Cameron, Paul, and the rest of the team at New Marigny / Church of Arts & Sciences, and engineer Daryl J. Marse.

Generated by a solo assignment from Deborah Hay (“make an animal dance”), I have built this piece from a ten-minute solo performed at Siberia in December 2018 to an evening-length work, with many works-in-progress showings in and out of New Orleans, and much of the work sidelined by the pandemic. The support I received to keep working on it has been extensive.

One of five solos developed as part of re:FRAME collective’s Close Animals: Soliloquies on Being, an animal dance is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund project co-commissioned by Basin Arts, the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, and NPN. an animal dance was also supported by Contemporary Art Center New Orleans’s 2020-21 Commissioning Initiative with a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Louisiana Division of the Arts; the NEFA National Dance Project Finalist Award; the Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography (MANCC); the Atlantic Center for the Arts; and the International Dance Festival New Orleans. Additional in-kind, financial, and residency support has been generously provided by Southern Heat Exchange, BODYART, Tulane Dance, Week of Dance at Parker Dance Academy, Twisted Run Retreat, and champion art supporters and organizers Jarina Carvalho, Corina Kinnear, Catherine Nelson, Leslie Scott, Greg and Margie Schramel, Meryl Murman, Reese Johanson, Shannon Stewart, and Summer Baldwin. Very special thanks to my colleagues in the re:FRAME solo choreography cohort: Meryl Murman, Ryuta Iwashita, Shannon Stewart, Jeremy Guyton.