2026 Performance Calendar

Sticks & Stone

An aerial dance, puppetry, and physical theatre performance that asks: What do we do when our bodies become strangers to our souls?

June 20 @ 7pm
June 21 @5pm
Gardiner, NY


Co-created and performed by Nicki Miller & Benny Oyzon
Production managed by David Glista

This collaborative project began in 2019 and premiered at the Performing Garage in NYC in 2022. After a hiatus, the show will have its festival premiere at Hupstate Circus Festival in Ithaca, NY on September 5, 2026! As we prepare for this, we are thrilled to invite our Hudson Valley community to join us for these preview performances at Leaps & Bounds/Take the Leap Dance in Gardiner, NY. We hope you'll join us!

All tickets are Pay What You Wish $5-50. All ticket funds help offset our production costs (including equipment, materials, space rental, and all of the collaborators’ skill/labor). Most importantly, your presence makes this whole effort with it! If you can’t make it but want to support the project, we will graciously accept your donation and gift the tickets to folx for whom cost is a barrier. 

Content Advisory: Themes of body dysphoria, patriarchal gender roles, brief topless nudity. Recommended for audiences 13+

September 5 @ 9pm

Hupstate Circus Festival Premiere in Ithaca, NY

Tickets on Eventbrite

Past Performances

“Feedback Loop” in the NYC Aerial Dance Festival; photo by Mikhail Lipyanskiy

  • “Feedback Loop” NYC Aerial Dance Festival (NYC); WildHeart Shared Stage (Wallkill, NY)

  • “The Great Turning” O+ Festival (Kingston, NY)

  • “Sticks & Stone” Performing Garage (NYC)

  • “We Are Nature” NooSphere Arts (NYC)

  • “Flesh & Blood” Dixon Place (NYC);
    The Deep End (NYC)