CuRRENT & UPCOMING SHOWS
Miggy Augmented Orchestra
Tomodachi! Concert
Thursday, October 29, 7-9pm
Join Miggy Augmented Orchestra, led by Japanese-born, Queens-based composer Migiwa “Miggy” Miyajima, for a FREE concert that will leave you smiling! “Tomodachi” means “friends” in Japanese—and this evening is all about bringing people together through music.
After the performance, you’ll have a chance to ask the musicians questions during an audience Q&A.
Curious about the music, their instruments, or life as a musician? Come ask!
Then stick around to mingle with the band and fellow concertgoers, with drinks available for purchase at the cash bar.
6:30 PM — Doors open
7:00 — Concert
7:50 — Audience Q&A with the musicians
8:20 — Mixer
Admission is FREE. Optional tips are welcome, and CDs will be available for purchase.
This event is made possible in part with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.
Atalanta: The Long Shot
A Sapphic Musical Epic by Lucier & Rose
Thursday, November 5, 7:30-10:30pm
Friday, November 6, 3-6pm
Friday, November 6, 7:30-10:30pm
Saturday, November 7, 7:30-10:30pm
Sunday, November 8, 5:30-8:30pm
Join us for a special pre-show experience 30 min before the performance!
Atalanta: The Long Shot is a boundary-breaking new queer musical that resurrects the long-forgotten mythology of history’s original Amazon and unsung heroine of Ancient Greece.
icchā
Friday, November 13, 7-8pm
Saturday, November 14, 7-8pm
Sunday, November 15, 3-4pm
Often the things we desire are not ours.
In Hindu philosophy, vasanas are unfulfilled longings that survive the death of the physical body, passed down through bloodlines as living, present icchā / desire.
icchā is contemporary kathak work weaving original music, set design, a communal Gujarati folk form called garba. Barkha is visited by her maternal ancestors in a dream. They choose her to express, release, and fulfill their desires: born from survival, loss, intimacy, violence, the denial of dance and embodied selfhood.
Matrilineages are most often the unnamed, interrupted, and absorbed into the histories of patriarchs. The work confronts the body as a site of ancestral history asking: who do we carry within us? This work allows these ancestors to breathe again and ask what in your body might be their unfinished reaching?
icchā is meant to be a somatic shraadh, an ancestral reverence of many secret tragedies that have dissolved with passing time.
Rabbit God
A Queer Chinese Fantasy
A new dance work by Jiemin Yang and dancers.
Thursday, November 19, 7:30-8:45pm
Friday, November 20, 7:30-8:45pm
Saturday, November 21, 7:30-8:45pm
Sunday, Nov 22, 3-4:15pm
Rabbit God: A Queer Chinese Fantasy is a contemporary dance-theater work rooted in the folklore, mythology, and spiritual traditions of Fujian, China. Blending contemporary dance, martial arts staff work, immersive projection, and theatrical storytelling, the piece transports audiences into a fantastical world where ancient myth collides with a queer present.
Inspired by the legend of the Rabbit God, a deity associated with same-sex love in Chinese folklore, the work follows a journey through friendship, love, desire, identity, loss, and redemption — where the boundaries between human, divine, and underworld begin to blur. An original sound score and live vocals bring the audience into this world.
Visually rich and physically dynamic, the piece combines expressive movement, martial arts, and dreamlike projection to create a cinematic stage world — inviting audiences into a universe where forgotten stories are reclaimed and brought back to life.
ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER:
Jiemin is a NY-based dance artist and choreographer. His work has been supported by Culture Lab LIC’s Emergence Artist Residency (2026); the NYSCA Support for Artists grant (2026); the Simons Foundation & Gibney Open Interval Residency (2025–26); the CUNY Dance Initiative at Queens College (2020–22). His dance film Wo/我 received the Outstanding Dance Film Award at the Queens World Film Festival 2022. He was named an Artist of Exceptional Merit by the Asian American Arts Alliance (2022). He has presented works at Battery Dance Festival, Mare Nostrum Elements at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, and at many other venues across the city.
Learn more about the work and the creators: www.jieminyang.art
Content Advisory: This performance contains mature themes and depictions of violence and may not be suitable for minors.
This piece was created during Culture Lab LIC’s 2026 New Works Lab and produced as a part of Culture Lab LIC’s New Works Festival. It is made possible, in part, with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a regrant program supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
notAmuse Theater presents
The 8th
Thursday, December 3, 8-9pm
Friday, December 4, 8-9pm
Saturday, December 5, 8-9pm
Sunday, December 6, 8-9pm
The seven deadly sins are constructs of our social architecture. Guiding, limiting, and controlling our social behavior. Guilt holds this architecture in place; sticky mortar of the soul. What would happen if guilt was prohibited? The 8th deadly sin. Would it all crumble? Can we “behave” without guilt? We are putting this experiment in the hands of the Bouffons, masters of guilt free subversion. Through play, metamorphosis and mask we explore and undermine the rickety social structure of morality with all its capitalist and patriarchal underpinnings. Will you dare to sit with us in this house of cards while the Bouffons frolic in the attic?
Conceived by Sophie Amieva and Katerina Marcelja
Devised by Hannah Gross, John Kang, Kayla Juntilla and Sophie Amieva
Directed by Sophie Amieva
Production Design by Katerina Marcelja
Line Producer by Giorgia Valenti
Light Design by Jaqueline Scaletta
notAmuse Theater’s mission is to teach classes and create visceral theatrical work that peels back layers of human complexity and social power in order to recognize the true core of one another’s humanity. We work from the core understanding that while theater isn’t always outwardly political, it is always inherently political. As audience members and artists we arrive in a theatrical space as a product of the world around us. We are steeped in its power dynamics, traumas, and resulting fears. notAmuse’s goal is to create spaces where we can deconstruct and transcend that fear to connect with one another on a deeper level.
PERFORMING ARTS At Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is passionate about supporting emerging artists and fostering ambitious work. Over the past four years, our directors have helped produce over 25 professional productions. We have supported original and in-development work, presenting the premiere productions.
We have provided rehearsal space for over 20 theatre/dance and music groups and produced hundreds of events. In 2024 alone, we donated over 1,000 hours of rehearsal space to local theatre and dance companies. Over the past three years, we have created an amazing space for performing artists to learn, grow, take risks and make work. We are proud to create affordable opportunities for our local artistic community here in LIC!