Mamie Green (VOLTA) - Disorder
Thursday February 12th
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$20 general tickets | $10 student tickets with ID
This performance is part of BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
Dis-order, choreographed and directed by Mamie Green / VOLTA, is an interdisciplinary performance that tests the societal line between order and chaos with dark levity. Staged à la Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, the piece references Jewish symbolism, Greek tragedy, and Pina Bausch’s Rite of Spring via large-scale puppetry by Freak Nature Puppets. The piece, jointly imagined by Mamie Green and writer Rebecca Schultz, is directed and choreographed by Green and written by Schultz. It features a collaborative team including puppets by Freak Nature Puppets, production design and paintings by artist Ari Salka, with an original score composed and performed by Patrick Shiroishi and Nicolas Snyder. The work is performed by Roxanne Steinberg, Anaya Cierra, Ryley Polak, Sophie Becker, Tim Allen, and Nico Fife.
Dis-order will premiere at Skirball Cultural Center March 19th & 20th, 2026.
Mamie Green
Mamie Green is a choreographer and the director of VOLTA. Green is the recipient of multiple grants and awards and was named in Fjord Review’s "Best of Dance 2023" and Bachtrack’s "Young Choreographers to Watch." Green's work has been commissioned and presented at Jeffrey Deitch, MAXXI National Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Loyola Marymount University, Ace Hotel Brooklyn, MAK Center at the Schindler House, New Hollywood Theater, among others, as well as commercial campaigns for adidas.
https://voltacollective.com / @volta_collective
Freak Nature Puppets
Freak Nature Puppets is an artist collective from Los Angeles, CA. Their work channels dreamlike narratives through giant puppetry, leading to unexpected and playful conclusions. Freak Nature’s theatrical work is inspired by the avant-garde progressive puppetry of Bread and Puppet Theater, the oddball physical theater of Mummenshanz, and the anarchist children's entertainment of Pee-Wee Herman. Freak Nature’s past collaborators & co-presenters include Dead & Company, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Eric Andre, KCRW, Poncili Creación, David Zwirner Gallery, and Childish Gambino.
https://www.freaknaturepuppets.com/ / @freaknaturepuppets
Ari Salka
Ari Salka is a Los Angeles-based artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and poetry. He received a BFA from SAIC (2016) and an MFA in Painting from UCLA (2019). Salka was awarded the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art’s Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in Norfolk, CT (2015). Salka has lectured as a visiting artist at UCLA, Chapman University, and Bennington College. Salka’s work is in the permanent collections of the John M. Flaxman Library, LACA, UCLA Arts Library, and the ROSA KWIR Archive. His artist book is currently available for purchase at MOCA, and he looks forward to an upcoming solo museum exhibition at XELA Art in 2027.
https://www.arisalka.com / @drawingwithpaint
Rebecca Schultz
Rebecca Schultz writes fiction and criticism. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, BOMB, Full-Stop, and the Santa Monica Review, where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches fiction and poetry at UC Irvine.
https://rebecca-schultz.com / @re3ecky
Patrick Shiroishi
Patrick Shiroishi is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles who is perhaps best known for his extensive and incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Shiroishi may well be considered a foundational player in the city’s vast musical expanse. He has presented work and performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Museum of Surgical Sciences and has toured around the world in various solo and band configurations including The Armed, contemporary classical ensemble Wild Up and Upsilon Acrux.
https://www.patrickshiroishi.com / @patrickshiroishi