ALAN SUTHERLAND LITTLE BROWN MUSHROOMS

Thu - Sat | Oct 6 – 8 | 8pm
Sun | Oct 9 | 5pm

Magic mushrooms, storytelling, and science fiction come to life in a hallucinatory dance/theater meditation. Mesmerizing performance artist (and mushroom expert) Alan Sutherland brings his lifelong obsession with dance and fungi to the stage in a performance specially focused on the Northwest species Psilocybe cyanescens and its powerful psychedelic properties. Beautiful and strange, the performance draws inspiration from fantasy and science fiction and includes a crackerjack team of local collaborators.

Little Brown Mushrooms is commissioned and supported through the OtB Performance Production Program.

About the Artist

Alan Sutherland

Alan Sutherland

Alan Sutherland is a Seattle-based choreographer and performer who has performed to great acclaim with Degenerate Art Ensemble, Dappin Butoh, dk pan, and Saint Genet, among others. His decades-long obsession with the deeply moving dance art of butoh has made him a master of this powerful genre. A passionate collaborator and mushroom hunter, he is constantly involved in outdoor and indoor projects across the Pacific Northwest.

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Supported by National Endowment for the Arts, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Arts Washington.