< Wonderboy

In 2008, Goode collaborates with master puppeteer Basil Twist, integrating yet another art form into his innovative cross-disciplinary work. Wonderboy is an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero isolated by his gift of super sensitivity. A bowl of flowers makes him cry with its fragile beauty. A garishly vulgar advertisement ruins his entire day. He feels small and apart, an outsider with his nose pressed up against the glass looking in, but in truth, he has enormous power – to see and perceive and even to heal with his gentle demeanor. Twist’s fragile puppet becomes the embodiment of “the other,” and the puppeteering becomes part of the dance itself. Music for Wonderboy will be composed by Carla Kihlstedt of Tin Hat Trio.

< Maverick Strain

With its underpinnings of gay identity, Marilyn Monroe, and cowboy individualism, this deconstruction of Arthur Miller’s screenplay, The Misfits compliments Wonderboy using a more straightforward narrative technique. It’s the re-mounting of an iconic Joe Goode masterwork.

< Humansville

Joe Goode Performance Group’s most recent home season shifted from presenting dance theater on a proscenium stage to a performance installation. Humansville takes audiences on an intimate journey through the hidden codes and meanings of human expression—both what can separate us, and connect us. In Humansville, the audience is able to proceed through multiple rooms, encircled by video, dance and music, which wrap around them in an exploration of the flailing, absurd condition of being human. Utilizing its celebrated fusion of theater, humor and high velocity dance, the company collaborates with video artist Austin Forbord and renowned composer/performer Joan Jeanrenaud to create an immersive and deeply moving theatrical experience.