WASTELANDIA by Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dances

WASTELANDIA by Edisa Weeks/DELIRIOUS Dances is a world constructed of recycled materials that invites the audience to engage in a multi-layered visual and immersive experience. Through craft-making, discussions, visual art, theater, and dance, the audience is taken on an interactive journey to witness a land that can be sculpted, destroyed, and rebuilt again with more plastic. WASTELANDIA seeks to reckon with America’s potential future and is a call for a more sustainable world.

WHEN:

• September 19 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• September 20 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• September 21 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
• September 26 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• September 27 | 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
• September 28 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

September 20:
6:00 PM Creative Reuse Workshop – Musical Instruments making with Skip LaPlante
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Performance/Rite
8:30 PM – Green Award presented to Kelly Vilar
Premiere toast and celebration after-party: 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM

September 21:
2:00 PM Creative Reuse Workshop – Zine Making with Lexy Cordato
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Performance/Rite
4:30 PM – Green Award presented to Petula Gay

September 26:
6:00 PM Creative Reuse Workshop – Bead Making with Pamela Issac
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Performance/Rite
8:30 PM – Green Award presented to Jasmine “Jasi” Robinson

September 27:
6:00 PM Creative Reuse Workshop – Musical Instruments making with Louie Miranda
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Performance/Rite
8:30 PM – Green Award presented to Lori Love Media

September 28:
2:00 PM Creative Reuse Workshop – Zine Making with Lexy Cordato
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM Performance/Rite
4:30 PM – Green Award presented to Heather M. Butts

WHERE: Newhouse Center at Snug Harbor, Gallery G (G101, 102, 103, and 104)
ADMISSION: BUY TICKETS HERE

Your ticket isn’t just entry to a performance — it’s an investment in local artists, community spaces, and creative storytelling. As a small, artist-led project supported in part by foundation funding, every dollar truly counts.

Here’s how your contribution makes an impact:
$20: Student, Senior, Veteran, Snug Harbor Member
A discounted rate to keep the arts accessible. Your ticket helps cover basic production costs and supports artists directly.
$30: General Admission
This ticket helps fund the development of new artistic work, supports fair artist compensation, and contributes to event operations.
$50: Supporter
You’re going above and beyond! This level helps cover costs for artist fees, rehearsal space, and materials needed for creative development. It also contributes to Snug Harbor’s work restoring the historic Newhouse Center and enriching the broader arts community.
$75: Rockstar
You’re powering the full creative ecosystem. This premium ticket directly supports: Artists creating bold new work, Community engagement initiatives, Snug Harbor’s efforts to restore the Newhouse and preserve green space, contributions to year-round cultural programming that uplifts local voices.

Founded by multi-disciplinary artist Edisa Weeks, DELIRIOUS Dances seeks to erase the barriers between art and life, between performance space and audience space, and between mediums. We are interested in finding ways for the audience to interact with and influence the experience of a work. We believe that art revitalizes the everyday to reveal something new about ourselves, and the revelation is an energy, a spark that has the power to change the world.

WASTELANDIA (3 RITES: Life) is a National Performance Network/Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by 651 ARTS, Mount Tremper Arts, RestorationART, Kelly Strayhorn Theater, DancePlace and NPN/VAN. 3 RITES is made possible in part through funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council; Creative Capital; Durst Organization; Harkness Foundation for Dance; The New England Foundation for the Arts, National Dance Project which is generously supported with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; New Music USA; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; a PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by The Professional Staff Congress and The City University of New York; The Puffin Foundation, as well as through the sponsorship of The Field; and the generosity of individuals.

3 RITES was developed through creative residencies with BRICLab; Chashama Space to Create; ChoreoQuest at RestorationART – Billie Holiday Theater; a remote residency with the Experimental Media and Performance Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dance in Process at Gibney Dance with funds provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; the Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artists program, which received support from the Jerome Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; Mabou Mines SUITE/Space program; Maggie Allessee National Center for Choreography; Materials for the Arts; New York State Dance Force residencies at Topaz Arts and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Norte Maar @ Socrates Sculpture Park; Performance Spaces for the 21st Century; and Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden.