our 2025 production
M U T A R A
Crux Collective’s third annual production Mutara is a vignette-style performance exploring the mechanics and philosophy behind the concept of Change in its many forms. The first act explores the ways we resist, invite, and enact change, while the second act examines change in the form of its direct counterpart, time. Time in Mutara is not just a backdrop, but a character who shapes and moves us, distorting us; it forces us to confront the paradox of predeterminism versus possibility. Mutara doesn’t have any answers, but rather is a Question in motion. What transforms us? Why do we change? What is chosen, and what simply is? Join us through a series of short stories inching us closer to an understanding of change, choice, and possibility.
all photos courtesy of Andrea Wedig
our 2024 production
P A R A L L E L
Parallel is a surreal and introspective journey through the subconscious mind, exploring themes of consciousness, identity, and the idea of Self. The audience follows as a character called the Dreamer is drawn through a mysterious doorway and steps into a labyrinthine internal landscape, filled with symbolic figures and challenges: a manifestation of their subconscious mind. By navigating through a series of interconnected doors Dreamer confronts their fears and desires, fighting for control over their inner world.
With a blend of aerial and contemporary dance, contortion, and a set full of interesting props and apparatuses, Parallel creates an immersive world that invites the audience to delve into their own inner landscapes. This year we're adding more collaborating artists onstage, including live musicians, atypical instruments and original scoring by Atlanta native Chris Childs to bring the choreography to life.
all photos courtesy of Amanda Killian
our premiere 2023 production
CATALYST
A show about our relationships with ourselves, with each other, our communities and our world. It's about how these relationships shape and change our interactions; how they affect our desire to participate fully as an active and change making part of our local and global communities; how they affect our feelings of purpose.
As we follow characters through a return to the water that birthed the human race, through familiar settings of modern life, then into the depths of our hearts and minds, we delve into the spaces that exist within, exploring the sometimes subtle and sometimes overt natures of power, fear, anger, resistance and love.
all photos courtesy of Courtney Ray Photography
