bathtime?

Bathtime? is a site-responsive performance built around a 250-lb cast-iron clawfoot tub. Across nine linked scenes, musicians, dancers, and visual artists explore vulnerability, consent, and agency through sound, movement, and simple objects—water, mirrors, a morph suit. The work blurs stage and backstage and closes with a group improvisation and audience conversation.

Over months of rehearsal, the ensemble worked with movement, sound, and conversation to ask: What makes a body “performing”? Who gets to be seen, and whose labor goes unseen? Onstage, simple materials do the heavy lifting: a mic’d bucket of water, mirrors, and a morph suit refract themes of perception, gender, and surveillance. Performers move between roles—player, witness, technician—dissolving the line between stage and backstage. The evening culminates in a raw group improvisation followed by a talkback that extends the performance into shared processing.

Rooted in Wang’s experience within classical music’s hierarchies as a gender- and racially-ambiguous artist, Bathtime? treats performance not as spectacle, but as a space for consent, care, and transformation.

“An unforgettable, collaborative community of trust, safety, consent, and creative joy.”

— Miri Verona, FSM.ink

Collaborators: Lorcan Baxter, Alex DeBello, Rebecca Page-McCaw, Jonah Sharp, Miri Villerius, Margaret Paek, Loren Dempster, Sonja Downing