Wonderboy

Joe 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 creature too strange to be socially acceptable is paralyzed by the power of his own feelings and unable to interact with others. Music by Carla Kihlstedt (Tin Hat Trio) and Matthias Bossi.

Humansville

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.

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.

Stay Together

For their 20th Anniversary in 2006, Joe Goode Performance Group presented the world premiere of Stay Together. The highly anticipated event was a collaborative effort with composer, celebrated conductor and music director of the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Tho mas. Stay Together touched on the challenges of keeping sane as an individual, an artist, and a member of a relationship in the complicated 21st century.

Grace

Joe Goode: “What is grace? I prefer to think of it as an absence, an empty space that opens up inside of us and let's us see nakedly, clearly. grace zeroes in on particular moments in time and events that reveal the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary.” The characters' stories and circumstances are told through epiphanies in movement and sound. A collaboration with composer Mikel Rouse.

 Grace was commissioned by the College of Saint Benedict-Benedicta Arts Center, St Joseph, MN as well as the generous support of Joe Goode New Work Fund donors.