Developed in EiO’s The Writers’ Room, Constance: A Confession is a comedic journey following one woman’s devotion to the long art of the con. The opera starts with an act of violence in a grad school art class, and continues as Constance finds work as a psychic, becomes a wellness influencer and grows her online empire into a cult—with deadly consequences. Scored for four singers and all-star experimental ensemble Hypercube, this new opera takes a biting look at the power of storytelling in the hands of a charismatic figure.
Wednesday, May 13 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 14 @ 8:30 SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15 @ 8:30
Saturday, May 16 @ 4
Saturday, May 16 @ 8:30
Monday, May 18 @ 8:30
Tuesday, May 19 @ 8:30
Wednesday, May 20 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 21 @ 8:30
Friday, May 22 @ 8:30
HERE Arts Center
Mainstage Theatre, Tribeca
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
The Writers’ Room program has been a mainstay of Experiments in Opera’s work over the last eight years as the company has expanded the pool of artists who are making and imagining opera. To date, 45 writers and composers from all backgrounds and experiences have collaborated to break open the historic model of single authorship. In addition to collaborating on the overall story, each episode features music and text by a new pairing formed from the members of the Writers’ Room.
Librettists: Susan Bywaters, Lisa Clair, Sam Norman and Ed Valentine
Composers: Jasmine Galante, Elizabeth Gartman, Mattie Levy, and Roger A. Martinez.
Sydney Anderson as Constance
Nathaniel Sullivan as The Mark
Sishel Claverie as The Enabler
Zen Wu as The Skeptic
Hypercube Ensemble
-Erin Rogers, Saxophones
-Jay Sorce, Guitars
-Andrea Lodge, Piano and Keyboards
-Christopher Graham, Percussion
The Team
Shannon Sindelar, Director
Dmitry Glivinskiy, Music Director
Silin Chen, Scenic Design
Mary Ellen Stebbins, Lighting Design
Krista Intranuovo Pineman, Costume Design
David Pym, Video Design
Jack Woods, Technical Director
Nathaniel Butler, Sound Engineering
Developed in EiO’s The Writers’ Room, Constance: A Confession is a comedic journey following one woman’s devotion to the long art of the con. The opera starts with an act of violence in a grad school art class, and continues as Constance finds work as a psychic, becomes a wellness influencer and grows her online empire into a cult—with deadly consequences. Scored for four singers and all-star experimental ensemble Hypercube, this new opera takes a biting look at the power of storytelling in the hands of a charismatic figure.
Wednesday, May 13 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 14 @ 8:30 SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15 @ 8:30
Saturday, May 16 @ 4
Saturday, May 16 @ 8:30
Monday, May 18 @ 8:30
Tuesday, May 19 @ 8:30
Wednesday, May 20 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 21 @ 8:30
Friday, May 22 @ 8:30
HERE Arts Center
Mainstage Theatre, Tribeca
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
The Writers’ Room program has been a mainstay of Experiments in Opera’s work over the last eight years as the company has expanded the pool of artists who are making and imagining opera. To date, 45 writers and composers from all backgrounds and experiences have collaborated to break open the historic model of single authorship. In addition to collaborating on the overall story, each episode features music and text by a new pairing formed from the members of the Writers’ Room.
Librettists: Susan Bywaters, Lisa Clair, Sam Norman and Ed Valentine
Composers: Jasmine Galante, Elizabeth Gartman, Mattie Levy, and Roger A. Martinez.
Sydney Anderson as Constance
Nathaniel Sullivan as The Mark
Sishel Claverie as The Enabler
Zen Wu as The Skeptic
Hypercube Ensemble
-Erin Rogers, Saxophones
-Jay Sorce, Guitars
-Andrea Lodge, Piano and Keyboards
-Christopher Graham, Percussion
The Team
Shannon Sindelar, Director
Dmitry Glivinskiy, Music Director
Silin Chen, Scenic Design
Mary Ellen Stebbins, Lighting Design
Krista Intranuovo Pineman, Costume Design
David Pym, Video Design
Jack Woods, Technical Director
Nathaniel Butler, Sound Engineering
Developed in EiO’s The Writers’ Room, Constance: A Confession is a comedic journey following one woman’s devotion to the long art of the con. The opera starts with an act of violence in a grad school art class, and continues as Constance finds work as a psychic, becomes a wellness influencer and grows her online empire into a cult—with deadly consequences. Scored for four singers and all-star experimental ensemble Hypercube, this new opera takes a biting look at the power of storytelling in the hands of a charismatic figure.
Wednesday, May 13 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 14 @ 8:30 SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15 @ 8:30
Saturday, May 16 @ 4
Saturday, May 16 @ 8:30
Monday, May 18 @ 8:30
Tuesday, May 19 @ 8:30
Wednesday, May 20 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 21 @ 8:30
Friday, May 22 @ 8:30
HERE Arts Center
Mainstage Theatre, Tribeca
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
The Writers’ Room program has been a mainstay of Experiments in Opera’s work over the last eight years as the company has expanded the pool of artists who are making and imagining opera. To date, 45 writers and composers from all backgrounds and experiences have collaborated to break open the historic model of single authorship. In addition to collaborating on the overall story, each episode features music and text by a new pairing formed from the members of the Writers’ Room.
Librettists: Susan Bywaters, Lisa Clair, Sam Norman and Ed Valentine
Composers: Jasmine Galante, Elizabeth Gartman, Mattie Levy, and Roger A. Martinez.
Sydney Anderson as Constance
Nathaniel Sullivan as The Mark
Sishel Claverie as The Enabler
Zen Wu as The Skeptic
Hypercube Ensemble
-Erin Rogers, Saxophones
-Jay Sorce, Guitars
-Andrea Lodge, Piano and Keyboards
-Christopher Graham, Percussion
The Team
Shannon Sindelar, Director
Dmitry Glivinskiy, Music Director
Silin Chen, Scenic Design
Mary Ellen Stebbins, Lighting Design
Krista Intranuovo Pineman, Costume Design
David Pym, Video Design
Jack Woods, Technical Director
Nathaniel Butler, Sound Engineering
Developed in EiO’s The Writers’ Room, Constance: A Confession is a comedic journey following one woman’s devotion to the long art of the con. The opera starts with an act of violence in a grad school art class, and continues as Constance finds work as a psychic, becomes a wellness influencer and grows her online empire into a cult—with deadly consequences. Scored for four singers and all-star experimental ensemble Hypercube, this new opera takes a biting look at the power of storytelling in the hands of a charismatic figure.
Wednesday, May 13 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 14 @ 8:30 SOLD OUT
Friday, May 15 @ 8:30
Saturday, May 16 @ 4
Saturday, May 16 @ 8:30
Monday, May 18 @ 8:30
Tuesday, May 19 @ 8:30
Wednesday, May 20 @ 8:30
Thursday, May 21 @ 8:30
Friday, May 22 @ 8:30
HERE Arts Center
Mainstage Theatre, Tribeca
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
The Writers’ Room program has been a mainstay of Experiments in Opera’s work over the last eight years as the company has expanded the pool of artists who are making and imagining opera. To date, 45 writers and composers from all backgrounds and experiences have collaborated to break open the historic model of single authorship. In addition to collaborating on the overall story, each episode features music and text by a new pairing formed from the members of the Writers’ Room.
Librettists: Susan Bywaters, Lisa Clair, Sam Norman and Ed Valentine
Composers: Jasmine Galante, Elizabeth Gartman, Mattie Levy, and Roger A. Martinez.
Sydney Anderson as Constance
Nathaniel Sullivan as The Mark
Sishel Claverie as The Enabler
Zen Wu as The Skeptic
Hypercube Ensemble
-Erin Rogers, Saxophones
-Jay Sorce, Guitars
-Andrea Lodge, Piano and Keyboards
-Christopher Graham, Percussion
The Team
Shannon Sindelar, Director
Dmitry Glivinskiy, Music Director
Silin Chen, Scenic Design
Mary Ellen Stebbins, Lighting Design
Krista Intranuovo Pineman, Costume Design
David Pym, Video Design
Jack Woods, Technical Director
Nathaniel Butler, Sound Engineering
Gelsey Bell & Erin Rogers (thingNY) join theThingamajigs Performance Group for 3 West Coast tour dates.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00pm
Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Simmonds Road
Sausalito, CA 94965
Donation
Thingamajigs Performance Group (Bay Area + Beyond)
Skylighght (Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers) (New York) (West Coast Premiere)
Skylighght is the duo project of vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers, both active figures of the New York City experimental music community who have worked together for 15+ years as part of the new music collective, thingNY. Composed collaboratively in 2019, Skylighght cultivates a minimalist music constructed upon the organic acoustic vibrations of interlaced resonances and a mutual performer sensitivity. An exploration of resonant properties, Skylighght has been performed in a variety of spaces from a farm silo to a cemetery catacombs, under a historic bridge in Central Park and inside various concert halls. In 2024, Chaiken Records released a record of the project, recognized for its “richness in concept and sound” (I Care If You Listen).
https://gelseybellerinrogers.bandcamp.com/album/skylighght
With a core ensemble featuring interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projectionist and sound artist Keith Evans, and musician composer Suki O’Kane, and co-founder Edward Schocker, Thingamajigs Performance Group is reuniting with co-founder Dylan Bolles and guest artist Wayne Grim to present in their traditions of durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration, and site work. Their fields of institutional study, performance practice, and instrumentation are directly informed by Japanese noh and gagaku, Korean pansori, sijo,and sinawi, formal training in both Western and Eastern art practices, and a commitment to experimental art.
https://bimodalpress.bandcamp.com/album/window
Gelsey Bell & Erin Rogers (thingNY) join theThingamajigs Performance Group for 3 West Coast tour dates.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
8:30pm
Indexical
1050 River Street Ste 119
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
$16 General / FREE or discounted for Members
Advance tickets
Thingamajigs Performance Group (Bay Area + Beyond)
Skylighght (Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers) (New York) (West Coast Premiere)
Skylighght is the duo project of vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers, both active figures of the New York City experimental music community who have worked together for 15+ years as part of the new music collective, thingNY. Composed collaboratively in 2019, Skylighght cultivates a minimalist music constructed upon the organic acoustic vibrations of interlaced resonances and a mutual performer sensitivity. An exploration of resonant properties, Skylighght has been performed in a variety of spaces from a farm silo to a cemetery catacombs, under a historic bridge in Central Park and inside various concert halls. In 2024, Chaiken Records released a record of the project, recognized for its “richness in concept and sound” (I Care If You Listen).
https://gelseybellerinrogers.bandcamp.com/album/skylighght
With a core ensemble featuring interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projectionist and sound artist Keith Evans, and musician composer Suki O’Kane, and co-founder Edward Schocker, Thingamajigs Performance Group is reuniting with co-founder Dylan Bolles and guest artist Wayne Grim to present in their traditions of durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration, and site work. Their fields of institutional study, performance practice, and instrumentation are directly informed by Japanese noh and gagaku, Korean pansori, sijo,and sinawi, formal training in both Western and Eastern art practices, and a commitment to experimental art.
https://bimodalpress.bandcamp.com/album/window
Gelsey Bell & Erin Rogers (thingNY) join theThingamajigs Performance Group for 3 West Coast tour dates.
Friday, April 17, 2026
8:30pm
The Lab
2948 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Doors 8pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members
Advance tickets
Thingamajigs Performance Group (Bay Area + Beyond)
Skylighght (Gelsey Bell and Erin Rogers) (New York) (West Coast Premiere)
Skylighght is the duo project of vocalist Gelsey Bell and saxophonist Erin Rogers, both active figures of the New York City experimental music community who have worked together for 15+ years as part of the new music collective, thingNY. Composed collaboratively in 2019, Skylighght cultivates a minimalist music constructed upon the organic acoustic vibrations of interlaced resonances and a mutual performer sensitivity. An exploration of resonant properties, Skylighght has been performed in a variety of spaces from a farm silo to a cemetery catacombs, under a historic bridge in Central Park and inside various concert halls. In 2024, Chaiken Records released a record of the project, recognized for its “richness in concept and sound” (I Care If You Listen).
https://gelseybellerinrogers.bandcamp.com/album/skylighght
With a core ensemble featuring interdisciplinary artist Rae Diamond, performative projectionist and sound artist Keith Evans, and musician composer Suki O’Kane, and co-founder Edward Schocker, Thingamajigs Performance Group is reuniting with co-founder Dylan Bolles and guest artist Wayne Grim to present in their traditions of durational performance, alternate tuning, group and open compositional formats, interdisciplinary and inter-cultural collaboration, and site work. Their fields of institutional study, performance practice, and instrumentation are directly informed by Japanese noh and gagaku, Korean pansori, sijo,and sinawi, formal training in both Western and Eastern art practices, and a commitment to experimental art.
https://bimodalpress.bandcamp.com/album/window
thingNY will be in DC in Sat 4/11 and NYC on Mon 4/13 playing the music of Diné composer Raven Chacon. Members of thingNY, joined by Olivia Shortt (Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation, Ireland) perform vocal, instrumental, and electronic works by Raven Chacon (Diné) including the thingNY co-commission Wave Upon Wave (2023) and For Zitkála-Šá (2017-2020). This evening will also feature a solo set by Raven.
MON APR 13 @ 7pm
TICKETS
$22.47
New Ear
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery
NYC
7:00 pm
Raven Chacon
For Zitkála-Šá (2017-2020)
Wave Upon Wave (2023)
solo electronics set
Players:
Gelsey Bell
Isabel Castellvi
Raven Chacon
Paul Pinto
Erin Rogers
Dave Ruder
Olivia Shortt
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music and a MacArthur Fellowship, Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon is known for poetic works that summon a sense of landscape, space and spirit. Experience an evocative, unique sound world when Chacon and colleagues from thingNY perform an evening of his recent chamber and conceptual compositions, and the world premiere of his 2025 commission from the Library’s Strickland Fund.
thingNY will be in DC in Sat 4/11 and NYC on Mon 4/13 playing the music of Diné composer Raven Chacon. We premiered Raven’s octet Wave Upon Wave back in 2023, and in addition to a new version of that, we’ll be doing some graphic/conceptual scores from his collection For Zitkála-Šá and other small group pieces.
SAT APR 11 @ 8pm
TICKETS ARE FREE WITH RSVP loc.gov
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building
Coolidge Auditorium
10 1st St SE
Washington DC
Rescheduled from December 6, 2025.
Pre-concert Conversation with the Artists
Whittall Pavilion, 6:30 pm
Raven Chacon
For Zitkála-Šá (2017-2020)
Wave Upon Wave (2023)
world premiere (2025)
Players:
Gelsey Bell
Isabel Castellvi
Raven Chacon
Paul Pinto
Erin Rogers
Dave Ruder
Olivia Shortt
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music and a MacArthur Fellowship, Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon is known for poetic works that summon a sense of landscape, space and spirit. Experience an evocative, unique sound world when Chacon and colleagues from thingNY perform an evening of his recent chamber and conceptual compositions, and the world premiere of his 2025 commission from the Library’s Strickland Fund.
Talujon Percussion and Popebama team up for a double bill of experimental new music for percussion, instruments + electronics
Saturday, March 14, 2026 // 7:30pm
So Percussion Studio
20 Grand Ave – Brooklyn, NY 11205
FREE // More Info
Popebama:
Praxis* – Dennis Sullivan
In Memoriam, Dave Mustaine – Popebama (Erin Rogers + Dennis Sullivan)
Basket Case – Erin Rogers
Talujon
Recah Pecahan – Dewa Alit
Made in Canada – Erin Rogers
Pulsating skin – Justina Repečkaitė
