Kaatsbaan Cultural Park announces upcoming presentations of Nichole Canuso’s Branching Paths: Lunar Retreat. Tickets are $30 for general admission and $15 with a student ID, available here. The performances take place on Saturday, September 6 at 4:00 PM, 4:10 PM, 4:20 PM, 7:00 PM, 7:10 PM, and 7:20 PM, as well as Sunday, September 7 at 2:00 PM, 2:10 PM, 2:20 PM. The 2:00 PM Sunday performance is already sold out.

Timed with September’s full moon, Lunar Retreat is an interactive, multi-sensory performative experience inspired by the gradual distance growing between the Moon and Earth. Set within the hallways, grounds, and studios of Kaatsbaan, this immersive journey invites audiences to wander, witness, and reflect on how we move through care, grief, and transformation—both individually and collectively.

The experience travels from station to station through a maze-like installation with guidance from performers. Audience members will have moments of watching dance, moments for being gently guided through space, moments of listening to things on headphones, and invitations to write and reflect. The experience lasts anywhere between 45–60 minutes, depending on individual preferences and interests. There will be seating available in each station for those who want or need it.

Created by choreographer and 2025 United States Artist Fellow Nichole Canuso in collaboration with ocean explorer and visual artist Rebecca Rutstein, experimental sound designer Bobby McElver, and a visionary team of designers and performers, Lunar Retreat opens a space for poetic, playful, and communal connection with the shifting rhythms of our planetary bodies. Lunar Retreat invites us to reflect on our deep evolutionary ties to the ocean and the moon, reminding us that we are all interconnected with the natural world.

Audiences will enter the interactive guided tour in small groups with timed entry points every 10 minutes.

The presentation of Lunar Retreat was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

About Kaatsbaan Cultural Park

The mission of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is to provide an extraordinary environment for cultural innovation and excellence by providing artists at any stage of their careers with creative residencies at state-of-the-art facilities, and presenting audiences and communities with annual festivals, educational programs, and seasonal events. As both an incubator for creativity and presenter for world-class artists in dance, theater, music, film, spoken and written word, and culinary and visual arts, Kaatsbaan provides artists with state-of-the-art dance studios, accommodations, an indoor theater, and outdoor stages. Sited on 153 Hudson River-adjacent acres, Kaatsbaan is free of urban facilities’ space and time constraints, allowing for exciting levels of artistic exploration, creative action, and achievement—just two hours north of New York City.

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park is committed to the advancement of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts as we aim to present, promote, and embrace programming that accurately reflects our society. We encourage a broadly diverse group of individuals to participate in our programs and join our Board and Staff, and insist on being inclusive of all peoples regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socio-economic background, or physical or mental ability.

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