Program areas at SAW
Artistic seasonst. Ann's Warehouse fills a vital niche on new york city's cultural landscape as an artistic home for the american avant-garde, international companies of distinction, and highly talented emerging artists ready to work on a grand scale. By virtue of its exciting programming profile, versatile performance space and tailored producing and marketing expertise, St. Ann's brings some of the world's most imaginative theater to new york city. Education, outreach, and empowerment foster vital connections, opening our programming and our building to our city's rich array of people and communities. In addition, St. Ann's has emerged as a major partner in activating found spaces through preservation, adaptive re-use, cultural and community uses.st Ann's 2022-2023 season was rich and varied with massive public art events and groundbreaking international theatre presentations in conversation with urgent social justice issues that brought focus to immigrants and vulnerable displaced people. The season began in the public space with fandango at the wall, a free concert(july 9) in brooklyn bridge park, celebrating a former festival of musicians from both sides of the us/mexico border, helmed by arturo o'farrell and his afro latin jazz orchestra. Then, over three weeks (september 14- october 2), a 12-foot tall puppet of a syrian refugee child on an epic journey made her first trip to the us. Little amal walks nyc traversed the city's diverse boroughs, neighborhoods, and immigrant communities. Hundreds of cultural institutions, and community / civic engagement organizations joined St. Ann's to welcome amal on behalf of refugees worldwide, particularly children. Everywhere she was met with music, dance, puppetry, and performances generated by local traditions and unique forms of expression, large and small. Lastly, after a three year postponement the jungle (february 18 - march 19, 33 performances), returned so that many more new yorkers would experience a work of art that the ny times called, "thrilling... Ravishing... Devasting...it feels as if all the world is holding its breath." The jungle immersed audiences in the disrupted life of the infamous calais, france refugee camp, a symbol of the hardships that displaced people face and it offered them a space to record their impressions and concerns. Multi-pronged public engagment included tickets to refugee service organizations, public discussions, and a photographic exhibition, living in sanctuary by cinthya santos briones.additionally, the season highlighted the creative visions of three extraordinary women directors with evocative american premiere productions made from literature, film, and mid-20th century psychotherapeutic methods. Emma rice's wuthering heights (october 14 - november 6, 25 performances), gina moxley's the patient gloris (november 16 - december 4, 20 performances), and mira nair's monsoon wedding, the musical (may 5- june 25, 52 performances). Over the season St Ann's served an audience of 153,000 at 90 percent capacity, many were new to St. Ann's Warehouse.