THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
Executive Director, Crystal Field
Presents
Stories for Future Ancestors Part 2: OTHER WORLDS
by Constellation Moving Company
October 9 – October 12, 2025
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM, Sunday at 3:00 PM
Tickets $20, Students & Seniors $15
Run Time: 90 minutes, plus one intermission
JOHNSON THEATER
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY
155 First Avenue (between 9th and 10th Street)
New York, NY 10003
Directions
Astronaut Sunita Williams was stuck on the International Space Station for nine months in 2024. Astronaut Kalpana Chawla was lost in the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003. Could the mysterious radio transmissions Suni is picking up while waiting for transport possibly be from Kalpana? Could they be a conversation on which she’s inadvertently eavesdropping, between aliens, AIs, and marine mammals? Could other worlds like the ones imagined by utopian speculative fiction ever exist on earth?
Mashing together (as we do) inspiration from NASA, Star Trek, Star Wars, Vandana Singh, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Ursula Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Kim Stanley Robinson and more, CONSTELLATION MOVING COMPANY returns with a new aerial-theater collage about the imagination of alternatives.
You will be invited to move with us, and talk with us–about the world as it is and could be.
Written and Directed by Maia Ramnath
Performed by Medea Exogiinos, Summer Lacy, Wendy Louie, Lisa Natoli, Maia Ramnath, Monika Ramnath
Choreography by the performers, organized by Maia Ramnath
Lighting Design by Jillian Garibaldi
Special musical guest Karen Poleshuck with Medea Exogiinos on October 11-12