Kindling Arts is serving you a healthy dose of counterculture at the 2023 Festival, where you can experience 17 wildly unique performance projects. The dizzying array of often unclassifiable performance experiences includes: a futuristic space opera with intricate fight choreography set to karaoke of 90s nu-metal music, a musical comedy send-up of Nashville’s most popular social media page, an interactive late-night party featuring reimaginings of classic county fair activities, and a multiplicity of fascinating new dance performances. And that's just the beginning!

Schedule of Events:

Thursday, July 27, 2023:

7:00pm-8:00pm: THE SLEEPOVER
The Party + Kristin McCalley Landiss
@ The Barbershop Theater

7:00pm-8:30pm: LIMITLESS: DANCE
Emily Rizo Davis, Kourtney “Koko” French, Melissa Miller, Sandy Perez, Amanda Reichert, Alexandra Winer
@ OZ Arts Nashville

8:00pm-9:30pm: TABOO: Suspended Gravity
@ Nashville School for the Aerial Arts

9:00pm-10:00pm: EAST NASHVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE: THE MUSICAL
Emma Supica / Cherry Bomb
@ The Darkhorse Theater

Friday, July 28, 2023:

7:00pm-8:00pm: THE SLEEPOVER
@ The Barbershop Theater

7:00pm-8:00pm: EAST NASHVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE: THE MUSICAL
Emma Supica / Cherry Bomb
@ The Darkhorse Theater

7:00pm-8:15pm: SILVER PLATTER: Amm Skellars
@ OZ Arts Nashville

8:00pm-9:30pm: TABOO: Suspended Gravity
@ Nashville School for the Aerial Arts

9:00pm-10:30pm: BAR FIGHT 2666: BROKEN VOWS (LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR)
Directed by Jessika Malone
Written by Daniel Carter
Fight Choreo by Justin Harvey + Diego Gomez
@ OZ Arts Nashville

9:00pm-10:30pm: ALLISON UNDERGROUND: Betty Vou Plaît x Back to Black Burlesque
@ The Barbershop Theater

10:30pm-12:00am: THE CACKLEBERRY COUNTY FAIR
Madeleine Hicks, Hayley Rose Maurer + Kara McLeland
@ OZ Arts Nashville

Saturday, July 29, 2023:

1:00pm-2:00pm: THE OCTOPUS GIRL: EmElise Knapp
@ Global Education Center

2:00pm-3:30pm: LIMITLESS: DANCE
Emily Rizo Davis, Kourtney “Koko” French, Melissa Miller, Sandy Perez, Amanda Reichert, Alexandra Winer
@ OZ Arts Nashville

4:00pm-6:00pm: HOW TO CLEAN A WOUND: Josh Inocalla
@ Global Education Center

5:00pm-6:30pm: DARE TO FAIL FILM FESTIVAL: COUNTERCULTURE
Steve Parnell & JR Robles
@ The Darkhorse Theater

6:00pm-7:30pm: KISMET: AN AERIAL SHOWCASE
InFlight Entertainment, Paige Eber, Layne Porter & Molly Reed, Dominique Young
@ Nashville School for the Aerial Arts

7:00pm-8:15pm: SILVER PLATTER: Amm Skellars
@ OZ Arts Nashville

7:30pm-9:00pm: ALLISON UNDERGROUND
Betty Vou Plaît x Back to Black Burlesque
@ The Darkhorse Theater

9:00pm-10:30pm: BAR FIGHT 2666: BROKEN VOWS (LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR)
Directed by Jessika Malone
Written by Daniel Carter
Fight Choreo by Justin
Harvey + Diego Gomez
@ OZ Arts Nashville

9:00pm-10:30pm: TABOO: Suspended Gravity
@ Nashville School for the Aerial Arts

10:30pm-12:00am: NOT YOUR NAILS GOTH NIGHT
@ OZ Arts Nashville

Sunday, July 30, 2023:

11:00am-12:30pm: FREE PUPPETRY WORKSHOP W/ TOYBOX THEATRE
@ The Barbershop Theater

1:00pm-2:30pm: COUNTRY HAMS PUPPET SLAM
Amanda Card & Madeleine Hicks
@ The Barbershop Theater

2:00PM-3:30PM: EMBODY: DANCES CELEBRATING THE BODY AND MIND
DancEast Collective, Jasmine Clark, Friends Life Community, Kaylee Lane
@ OZ Arts Nashville

4:00pm-5:00pm: EAST NASHVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE: THE MUSICAL
Emma Supica / Cherry Bomb
@ The Darkhorse Theater

6:00pm-7:00pm: INVISIBLE INK: Audra Almond-Harvey
@ The Barbershop Theater

6:00pm-7:30pm: KISMET: AN AERIAL SHOWCASE
InFlight Entertainment, Paige Eber, Layne Porter & Molly Reed, Dominique Young
@ Nashville School for the Aerial Arts

7:30pm-8:30pm: VOYAGE: Gardening, Not Architecture
@ The Darkhorse Theater

Dates: July 27 - 30, 2023

Locations:

OZ Arts Nashville, 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle, Nashville, TN 37209
The Darkhorse Theater, 4610 Charlotte Ave, Nashville, TN 37209
Nashville School for the Aerial Arts, 2612 Clifton Avenue, Nashville, TN 37209
The Barbershop Theater, 4003 Indiana Avenue, Nashville, TN 37209
Global Education Center, 4822 Charlotte Avenue #3, Nashville, TN 37209

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