Scapegoat Garden is a collaborative dance theater based in Hartford, Connecticut, driven to create daring, interdisciplinary performance that goes in through the nose, eyes, skin, ears and mouth to stir those who witness or participate.
Scapegoat Garden accomplishes this mission in the form of: |
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Innovative performance works layered with multi-sensory stimulation, attention to detail, athleticism, storytelling and vulnerability. These works of physical theater, created through collaboration are presented to the public in theaters, alternative performance spaces and on video. Community-building collaborative projects generated by exceptional artists, with diverse talents and skills, who support one another and the collective work. |
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Ground-breaking arts education programs geared to, but not limited to, teenagers and young adults-making merging live performance with popular media (music, film and video) to engage, inform and transform through pioneering performances, workshops, lecture-demonstrations and educational videos. Significant contributions to the cultural fabric of Connecticut; encouraging the creation and maturation of local arts and artists through advocacy and involvement in community arts organizations. |
Scapegoat Garden was founded in 2002, and established as a non-profit 501(c)(3) arts organization in 2004. Under the direction and vision of Hartford-native Deborah Goffe, the company chooses themes that are as much universal as they are personal. Layered with multi-sensory stimulation and attention to detail, Scapegoat Garden invites its audiences to participate in a heightened theatrical experience. Drawing on the group’s diverse passions and training, which have included contemporary dance, yoga, martial arts, ballet, video production, theater, song and music composition, Scapegoat Garden collaborates in the creation of daring interdisciplinary performance works. These works walk the line between technique, form, process and a genuine expression of our human experience. Scapegoat Garden’s repertory has been selected for performance in festivals and venues throughout the region including: the Bushnell’s Belding Theater, Trinity College’s Austin Arts Center, the Carol Autorino Center at Saint Joseph College, Hartford’s Charter Oak Cultural Center , the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Truro Center for the Arts in Provincetown, White Mountain Dance Festival at Springfield College and New York City’s Raw Material Performance Series, Artist’s of Tomorrow Festival, DUMBO Dance Festival and 92nd Street Y.
Deborah
Goffe 810 Tower Ave Hartford, CT 06112 860.881.9943
deborah@scapegoatgarden.org
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