The Encounter: Akron

The Encounter: Akron was developed in partnership with Rubber City Theatre and NCCAkron, with generous support from The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

A live work of physical theater, this Encounter featured 12 local performers, ages 11-39. It exists within the larger project, The Encounter, which is being created with communities around the world, merging professional, pre-professional, and non-professional performers.

The work is an encounter with oneself , pulling from what we are currently carrying in our bodies–grief, hope, fear, desire, newfound power- and pairs it with our dreams in this moment of reconciliation with time, as we dig our lives out of the pandemics of this age. The burgeoning result is a cross-geographic, global conversation about the ferocious power of the body as a form of communication and the potency of movement as a connective language.