The Empty Space

The Empty Space features creative scholarship developed by students and faculty in the Hugh Downs School, often in collaboration with other ASU departments and schools. Projects range from extended solo performances to group performances, including explorations in (auto)ethnography, literary-based texts, adapted scholarship, and trigger scripting. The Empty Space also hosts local and national artists and performance educators who offer lectures, workshops, and performances.

For more information contact TheEmptySpace@asu.edu

Cleaning party to ready the studio for the 2018-2019 season!

The Cleaning Crew takes a break!

Chairs cleaned and placed on risers

Washing the walls -It helps that Associate Professor Dan Brouwer is tall!

Untangling cable wires.

Sweeping, lots of dust!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vacuuming chairs.

 

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Recent News:

Story scope season one highlights 

Learning The Art Of 'Grassroots Storytelling' - NPR KJZZ  December 19, 2016 - An interview with Empty Space director Jennifer Linde on learning the art of 'grassroots storytelling.'

  • The Night the Moon Bounced

    The Night the Moon Bounced was a solo performance about the intersections of family, love, and mental illness, Spring 2008.

  • My Feminity: the Musical

    Utilizing a captivating combination of musical theater and personal narrative-inspired dialogue and poetry, My Femininity addresses gender, especially white, heterosexual femininity, as far from being tidily theorized or discussed, Spring 2008.

  • Civil Dialogue: Let's Talk about McCain/Obama

    Civil Dialogue is a public discussion format that provides a performative space for civilized, facilitated citizen dialogues about the rhetorical issues of our times. Let’s talk about McCain/Obama was the 2008 presidential election.

  • Blue Orange

    "Blue Orange" was presented as a stage reading. Most of the dialogue was read by the performers with certain scenes enacted on stage with performances by faculty and students, 2010.

  • (Im)Migration

    "(Im)Migration" was a multi-media installation designed to encourage public conversations about the complex human experience of migration. The installation was a collaborative project between ASU and several community arts groups, spring 2011.

  • Encyclopedia Show, Civil Wars

    The Encyclopedia Show is a monthly, multi-genre, age-integrated presentation of creative performances on a central theme taken from an actual encyclopedia. Each performer is assigned a specific subset of the central theme on which to write and perform.

  • Undergraduate Student Showcase

    An evening of performances from the undergraduate studies performance classes.

  • The Journey to Find my Brother

    A solo performance by visiting scholar/performer, Kurt Lindemann. Lindemann explores the death of his brother in a hiking accident 10 years ago, spring 2012.