
Trench Heart
experiments in visual poetics, radical collaboration, emergent ritual & transformational performance
Performers Residency
for iContact, the tactile tech opera begins April 1, 2026
Interview to become part of the team of performers & musicians who will live together for the month of April to create & practice, followed by a six city tour in May & June, 2026.
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Violinists
Enhance and empower the experimental soundscape. You will be playing alongside electronic and live sounds and voices.Select date and time
Event time zone:America/New York GMT-05:00Book Now
Puppeteer/Performer
The opera has acts that involve puppets ranging in size from tiny to large. If you are lit up by playing with and distorting size, you care about Nature deeply, and are a yes to go through adulthood initiations along the way...Select date and time
Event time zone:America/New York GMT-05:00Book Now
Tech Coordinator
The set is pivotal & mostly projection mapped. We are looking for someone with a depth of tech proficiency, an innovative visionary skillset, and the capacity to be on an evolutionary team for three months.Select date and time
Event time zone:Asia/Shanghai GMT+08:00Book Now
Experimental Choregrapher
Collaborating on movement coordination amongst the team, outside of any traditional dance style. Must consider and work with the emotional & energetic bodies, in addition to physical bodies, of the performers and audience during acts with collective choreography.Select date and time
Event time zone:Asia/Shanghai GMT+08:00Book NowMeet The Opera Team
Cultural Creatives in Collaboration.

Beth, Creative Director, Writer & Performer
Experimental Illustrator, Puppeteer, Sound Engineer, Digital Artist and Spaceholder for Immersive Transformational Performance. Beth holds her MFA from CalArts, is a Death & Transitions Doula and Alternative Herbalist. Her work subverts current systems by uplifting the non-human and subtle realms through micro and macro attention, invitation and upgrades to magic/technology. Her stand is for a new culture where Listening, Collaboration, Compassion and Creation are at the center.

Nina, Performer, Costume & Set Designer
Shapeshifting between nature, performance, and visual art, Nina creates from the world she wants to inhabit-a playground where expression and ecology dance together. She's been behind the curtains as an art director, scenographer, and costume designer-and under the lights as a dancer and circus artist. She explores non-linear storytelling through improv theatre and contact dance. She crafts costumes, artifacts & structures from natural and reclaimed materials-proof that art and ecology speak the same language.

Lisa-Maria, Performer & Growness Strategist
Subversive Next Culture Creatrx weaving experiences designed to empower people to feel their feelings, wildly and out loud, in order to access more possibilities & potential. She has a first-class degree in performing arts and has spent the last 20 years using conscious threatre, as a director producer and performer, to ignite aliveness for a world full of high level fun. She is experienced in going non-linear and being the Bright Principle of determination to support regenerative projects to fly.

Maura, Choreographer & Performer
Alchemist, mage, catalyst for transformation, feeling by moving. Maura channels through movement, and utilizes dance as a way to connect to other Beings and Life beyond the mind. Creating choreography is not simply a practice, but a whole body medicine for her & anyone who joins in or witnesses. She opens portals of change, shapeshifting, egoic death & rebirth. Epiphanies. Sewing realms together one movement at a time.

Gi, Growness Strategist, Documentarian & Performer
A cultural pollinator, dancing at the edge and seeding brave frameworks that support communities to grow wild beyond linearity. A creative catalyst by nature, she weaves strategy into spectacle, activism into play, and imagination into ritual. With a Ph.D in Cognition and Motivation, her work sparks luminous disruptions. On stage she moves between challenger & facilitator, turning performance into joyful rebellion and social alchemy.

Bahr, Writer, Performer & Documentarian
Bahr is a creator of stories, a weaver, a witch crafting alternative inventive realities. A walking adventurer, she has a huge bold strong YES! to the most bizarre experiments of Life. She is a door opener, showing the world that more is possible-that dreams & desires that come from the heart can become reality. She is a dancer, moving in freedom beyond what is "allowed" and "acceptable." Her movement is a reflection of her state of being, a mirror going out in the world.

Megan, Costume & Set Designer

Aviva, Choreographer & Performer
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