The Rogue Show

The Rogue Show was a co-production with Vertical City Performance that premiered in 2014 and was re-imagined in 2016. This solo performance was created collaboratively by Allen Kaeja and Director/Co-Choreographer Bruce Barton and performed by Allen Kaeja. It both celebrates and interrogates memory and reveals, challenges, and reimagines Allen’s personal history in dance, song, story and video. The Rogue Show is an experiment and an adventure – a deeply personal exploration of individuality and defiance, but also of the unshakeable bonds of family and culture.

The Rogue Show invites the audience to join Allen on a journey of personal and artistic independence, evolution, and discovery. His first, unexpected collision with dance in an Israeli bomb shelter … his father’s inability to accept dance as Allen’s true passion … his meeting, through dance, with his life-long partner … these and many more experiences provide the basis for words, movement, music and engagement that is highly physical, contemplative, and playful.

Audience members are also integral to the event, as they become performers and creators, sharing their own stories and dancing their own experiences. For, in the end, The Rogue Show is about the collaborative power of stories and the seductive, defining processes of storytelling.