ABOUT

FourOneOne focuses on live events that make informal and transformative relationships possible between performers and audiences. Our approach centers performance as the embodied means of transmitting the experiential knowledge of communities across generations, geographies and social boundaries. We support performance practices rooted in the histories and lived realities of communities across the globe, whether from South Asia, the Caribbean, East Asia, North Africa, Latin America, Chicago's South Side, or the Bronx. Our goal is to foreground, in New York City, these performance practices and their transmission, and to advance a rich conversation that emphasizes social context, history and the creative lives of communities over virtuosity, technique or individual genius.