Photo of COMMIT! by Kate Ladenheim performed at National Sawdust (Alycia Kravitz, 2023).
MAXlive debuts finished works reaching audiences across the five boroughs of New York and beyond. This is the launchpad for our productions and we work tirelessly to collaborate with institutions, festivals, and venues worldwide to transfer and tour them, ensuring they reach broader audiences and continue to inspire critical conversation.
Dancing with Black Holes
BRIC Arts | Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM
An immersive journey at the threshold of a black hole, where complex astrophysical data is rendered into a bone-deep human experience. Inspired by the behavior of gravitational waves emitted billions of years ago, the work explores a point of no return – the event horizon of a black hole – a place where the laws of physics break down and kinesis takes over. The known world ends and a different kind of truth begins
Dancing with Black Holes
An immersive journey at the threshold of a black hold, where complex astrophysical data is rendered into a bone-deep human experience. Inspired by the behavior of gravitational waves emitted billions of years ago, the work explores a point of no return -the event horizon of a black hole – a place where the laws of physics break down and kinesis takes over. The known world ends and a different kind of truth begins
Dancing with Black Holes
Peter Chu & Matthew Jamal
BRIC Arts
April 18th, 2026, 4:00PM & 7:00PM
An immersive journey at the threshold of a black hold, where complex astrophysical data is rendered into a bone-deep human experience. Inspired by the behavior of gravitational waves emitted billions of years ago, the work explores a point of no return -the event horizon of a black hole – a place where the laws of physics break down and kinesis takes over. The known world ends and a different kind of truth begins
"MAX is a truly unique and profound company as it links brilliant and expansive scientific thinking with innovative design and theater making. As a designer who works around the world I can share that the efforts of the entire company are full of class, inspiration and a commitment to big idea in the community. One of last season’s highlights for me was working with this inspiring company.”
Justin Townsend
Tony-Award Winning Lighting Designer
& Chair of the Department of Design for Stage & Film at NYU Tisch
Highlighting Our MAXlive 2023 Programming
Performers, artists, scientists, and creative technologists expand performance, taking audiences where they have never been before in the Where is My Body? Festival
Photo of Jur A** Itch Park by Grayson Earle & Johannes Büttner performed at Center for Performance Research (Jerome Allen-Smith, 2025)
When Light Bends
Jur A** Itch Park