Compagnie Basinga (France): Soka Tira Osoa

  • August 30 - 31, 2025
  • PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

    2980 New York 66
    Chatham, New York 12037
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Description

A tightrope walking performance propelled by a live band, Soka Tira Osoa by French tightrope walking company Basinga relies on the public—blurring the line between audience and performer. Loosely translated to “pulling the rope,” Soka Tira Osoa is both a spectacular and participatory project: an aerial spectacle of moving humanity, making its US premiere at PS21. 

 

Playing with the codes of the show, Soka Tira Osoa places all the trades in the place of the artist: riggers, musicians, sound engineer, tightrope walker. Everyone starts from the ground before rising. 

 

Basinga aims to develop, expand, transmit and communicate the art of tightrope walking which—better than any other—reveals how our greatness is based on our weaknesses and our ability to combine them. Convinced that a tightrope crossing is only possible thanks to the help and involvement of everyone, Basinga aims to ask questions around togetherness and the importance of each individual’s role in the greater collective.

 

Basinga will be in residence at PS21 throughout the week leading up to the performance, offering free tightrope walking workshops.

Date & Time

Aug 30 - 31, 2025

Venue Details

PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance

2980 New York 66
Chatham, New York 12037 PS21 : Center for Contemporary Performance
PS/21 Inc

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About PS21

A vibrant center for contemporary performance in the Hudson Valley, PS21 “presents work that challenges and invites” (The New York Times): adventurous productions by leading and emerging American and international artists in music, dance, and theater, and visionaries creating entirely new genres. On our open-air Pavilion Theater stage, across our expansive, unspoiled grounds, and in the diverse surrounding communities, PS21 cultivates and presents productions that transcend aesthetic boundaries and revitalize existing artistic languages and grammars. Throughout the year, we host developmental residencies for dancers, musicians, actors, and creators of original, even unclassifiable new work. Rooted in community collaboration, PS21’s programming engages creatively with critical global and social issues. It is a mecca for innovative and original artistic voices, a destination for performance that can be experienced nowhere else in the region. PS21’s Pavilion Theater is a green-energy marvel surrounded by 100 acres of unspoiled meadows, trails, and woodlands that are a haven to wildlife and visitors across the region.  Integrated into our unspoiled campus, the theater embodies our commitments to the public: open, inviting, and optimized for their enjoyment and encouraging citizen expression and participation.

 

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