Ann Glaviano performs an animal dance. The audience will turn off and on the stage lights, among other things. New Orleans premiere at New Marigny Theatre in the Ninth Ward. Limited tickets ($25) for an intimate audience. Advance tickets required. LINK TO BUY: https://knownmass.com/performances/an-animal-dance/
Wednesday, July 22, 2026 – 7pm
Thursday, July 23, 2026 – 7pm
Friday, July 24, 2026 – 7pm
Saturday, July 25, 2026 – 7pm
an animal dance is an unusual show in that some members of the audience will have cues for lights, sound, props, and other scenic and production elements. There is a consent form built into your ticket purchase; you can opt into the parts that require cues. You will only have one cue. Although the show requires audience participation to operate, everyone in the audience remains seated, and every seat has great sight lines.
Doors open at 6:30pm; show starts at 7pm. Please aim to arrive closer to 6:30pm than 7pm, so that we can distribute the cues and make sure everyone gets settled in. I will answer any questions you have before we begin. There will be no late seating.
The run time for the show is 90 minutes.
New Marigny Theatre is in an ADA-accessible church building. Seating is on folding chairs. Street parking is free.
Email Ann with questions: ann.glaviano@gmail.com
BIO: Ann Glaviano is a writer, dance-maker, DJ, and born-and-raised New Orleanian. As a dance artist she maintains a wide-ranging practice: she’s danced with the New Orleans Ballet Theatre, executed a lecture/demonstration alongside Deborah Hay, choreographed for Hulu, engaged in incendiary national dance advocacy and institutional protest work with the re:FRAME collective, improvised the “ballerina rap” bit onstage with Hannibal Buress, written on commission for the National Performance Network, and performed in a dystopic durational art installation in Dresden. Since 2013 she’s directed the New Orleans–based performance project Known Mass, aesthetically and ethically motivated by devised theatre and DIY punk traditions, producing collaborative projects with local dancers, musicians, photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists. Her first dance film, 01_field recording, had its world premiere in 2019 at Highways in Los Angeles. For more than a decade, Ann has run a friendly neighborhood dive-bar dance party called HEATWAVE! spinning dance jams on vinyl from 1957-1974; she has been featured in Elle and nominated by Offbeat as Best DJ in New Orleans. Her prose has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Tin House, and Slate, among other publications. In 2018, in recognition of her cross-disciplinary artistic achievements and track record of art community facilitation, Ann was honored as one of Gambit‘s 40 Under 40. You can follow Ann at @annglaviano and subscribe to her newsletter for updates on future work.
Ann Glaviano is part of the TKFusion Arts in Residence Program at New Marigny Theatre.