Red Eye
New Works 4 Weeks Festival 2025
Works-in-Progress 2025
Dates
Fri, May 23, 12:00 am
Masks required
Sat, May 24, 12:00 am
ASL-interpreted performance + post-performance engagement
Sun, May 25, 12:00 am
Pay as you wish, suggested $17-70.
If cost is a barrier, please email boxoffice@redeyetheater.org for discount ticket options. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Red Eye presents the 2025 edition of the New Works 4 Weeks Festival: an annual gathering for live performance works that respond to the current moment and imagine collective transformation. Each year, artist cohorts engage in peer exchange, mutual support, and dialogue around creative process that culminates in this public sharing. Over nearly four decades, this incubator of new work has become a cornerstone of the Twin Cities performance landscape.
The 2025 artists bring varied approaches to performance—calling on dance, installation, sound, theater, poetry, textile, fiction, devising, sculpture, puppetry, film, improvisation, and more—with a shared commitment to questioning artistic form and challenging dominant culture. Their works traverse themes including journeys and portals, unraveling and reimagining, memory and make-believe, distortion and destruction, authority and coercion, crisis and consumption, lineage and form, how to stomach the horrors and how to tend to seeds. They ask: How do we talk to ourselves? How do we struggle for and against each other? What comes after this?
Each year since the inception of Works-in-Progress in 1983, followed by Isolated Acts in the early 90s, Red Eye has supported artists to develop performance works that push artistic form.In 2025, Red Eye is deepening its practice of collective work, bringing on an expanded group of festival producers: Rebekah Crisanta de Ybarra, jess pretty, and Lelis Brito. This year offers multifaceted conversation around the works, including written reflections by embedded writer José A. Luis. Each weekend will also include a post-performance engagement to foster dialogue and connection between festival artists and community members.
Accessibility
On Friday, May 23, the performance of Works-in-Progress and post-performance engagement will include ASL interpretation.
Red Eye’s space is fully wheelchair-accessible.
Run times and sensory notes for each piece will be added to the website as the works develop and the information becomes available.
Please reach out to staff@redeyetheater.org if you would like to receive content notes for any of the pieces.
To request ASL interpretation, audio description, large-print programs, or other accessibility-related accommodations for any event, please contact us with as much advance notice as possible. staff@redeyetheater.org | 612.870.7531
About the Artists
Bri Blakey
Portals through memory, a dream made under a blanket, daily little travels through time, a weary and hopeful reach toward futures. Generated from processes of grieving and the reimagining that comes after, this piece is a collage of movement, textile, and text.
Bri Blakey is a Twin Cities-based interdisciplinary artist and dance/movement therapist whose work is rooted in dance, somatic practices, and philosophies of care. Drawing on a variety of other mediums—including fiber art, poetry, set design, and collage—her work acts as a form of world-building and archiving, particularly through the lens of her Black and queer identity. Deeply invested in the relational aspects of creating and living, her work also seeks to foster restorative and connective experiences between people, other creatures, places, and times. Her work has been supported by and presented at Arts On Site, Remy Theater (NY), and Minnesota Fringe Festival. She studied Dance at St. Olaf College, and earned an MS Dance/Movement Therapy from Sarah Lawrence College.