Past Performing Arts | Dance

Tere O’Connor

Rivulets

Artist Residency | Award Winning Project | Midwest Premiere

Four dancers in earth-toned, flowing outfits are leaping in air in a circular formation.
Sep 21, 2023–Sep 23, 2023
Available Times
  • Thu, Sep 21, 8:00 PM
  • Fri, Sep 22, 8:00 PM
  • Sat, Sep 23, 8:00 PM
Black Box on Mershon Stage

$6 access (suggested)
$12 members, students, and adults 55 and over (suggested) 
$24 general public (suggested) 
$48 access sponsor (suggested)

We believe the arts are for everyone.  
By providing personal choice on ticket pricing, we seek to reduce barriers to the arts. Please choose the ticket price that is right for you based on your own needs. If you are able, please consider paying access sponsor pricing, which generously supports these efforts to provide access to our communities.

ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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Wexner Center Artist Residency Award recipient Tere O’Connor continues his 40-year-long exploration of the expansive human mind in the Midwest premiere of Rivulets.

Uncompromising and ever-changing, Tere O’Connor is the consummate New York City choreographer whose chief concern is “endlessly evolving, flowering complexity.” In the Wex-supported Rivulets, O’Connor’s choreography celebrates the unruly nature of consciousness. Developed in collaboration with the eight dancers and featuring a score composed by O’Connor himself, Rivulets attempts to jettison unison movement entirely to embrace a new kind of freedom. Don’t miss this fascinating evening of dance the New York Times called a “masterly choreographic design producing its own…orderly entropy.” (program approx. 60 mins.) 

Stay after Friday’s performance for a Q&A session, and join us September 19 for a Diversities in Practice artist talk with O’Connor followed by a Q&A moderated by Ohio State’s Abby Zbikowski, a past recipient of the Wexner Center Artist Residency Award.

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Rivulets, photo: Maria Baranova.

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  • There is no late seating for these performances.

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"My focus on the unison/nonunison binary is an enactment of the real human choice between an organized, obedient life and/or freedom."
Tere O’Connor
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Rivulets is commissioned by The Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York. Additional commissioning support is provided by Danspace Project, New York, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. 

PERFORMING ARTS PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Doris Duke Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Ohio Department of Development
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Ohio Arts Council
CampusParc
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Nationwide Foundation
Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
Axium Packaging
Nancy Kramer
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
Larry and Donna James
Bruce and Joy Soll
Jones Day
Alex and Renée Shumate

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Tere O’Connor wears a collared shirt with glasses
Past Talks & More

Tere O’Connor

Diversities in Practice

Conversation and Q&A with Abby Zbikowski follows
Tue, Sep 19, 2023
Tere O’Connor wears a collared shirt with glasses
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Tere O'Connor on Rivulets

Thu, Sep 21, 2023
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Past Performing Arts

Tere O’Connor

Sep 21, 2023–Sep 23, 2023
Friday's Hours 10AM–8PM
  • Thu, Sep 21, 8:00 PM
  • Fri, Sep 22, 8:00 PM
  • Sat, Sep 23, 8:00 PM
Black Box on Mershon Stage

$6 access (suggested)
$12 members, students, and adults 55 and over (suggested) 
$24 general public (suggested) 
$48 access sponsor (suggested)

We believe the arts are for everyone.  
By providing personal choice on ticket pricing, we seek to reduce barriers to the arts. Please choose the ticket price that is right for you based on your own needs. If you are able, please consider paying access sponsor pricing, which generously supports these efforts to provide access to our communities.

ACCESSIBILITY
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as CART captioning or ASL interpretation to participate, please email accessibility@wexarts.org or call (614) 688-3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

Become a Member