DEVIATED THEATRE

In DEVIATED THEATRE’s original dance opera ‘Beyond’, Luna the Astronaut faces a dust storm on the planet Mars.  Suspended between life and death in the middle of our solar system, she realizes the more profound journey has actually been her inner one.  With the help of a personified mother time, she reflects on her life as a child, battles figments of her own mind, and surveys all the moments leading up to now.  For so many astronauts, the biggest game is the mental one.  And for Luna, getting lost on Mars is part of being found.

DEVIATED THEATE Artistic Directors, Enoch Chan and Kimmie Dobbs Chan, are co-creators of worlds.  Their work has been heralded as “spellbindingly compelling” and “eerie, esoteric, eclectic (DCMetro Theater Arts 2014, 2015).  In 2008 they co-founded DEVIATED THEATRE.  Together they are committed to pioneering the dance opera, a name they have coined for their dramatic evening length stage productions which mix contemporary dance, acting and aerials to tell fantastical original stories of other worlds.  At times haunting and others humorous, this signature style has been described by the Washington Post as “hypnotic multidisciplinary” (2011) and also “incredibly effective” (2012).