Burning Bones Physical Theatre contributes to an original and fearless live performance and training culture in Atlanta and building community engagement with compelling physical performances. Our members are predominantly queer and disabled performers, and this is central to our methods of training and creating together. We draw on several traditions that form a core part of our creative practice and lineage including butoh, clowning, Fitzmaurice Voicework®, and Organic Intelligence®.

Burning Bones Physical Theatre has created the butoh-based theatrical productions One for the Road (2020), Too Far for Comfort (2020), Harry Clarke (2022), and Malicious Compliance (2023). Burning Bones’ work was showcased in the Spring for Spring Dance Festival (2021), So Long, Farewell (2021), Human Lights Festival: A Curious Encounter (2021), the Atlanta Fringe Festival (2022), as well as Art on the Beltline and Beltline After Dark (2023). We are Reiser Artists Lab recipients (2022-2023) and current artists in residence at Windmill Arts.

Drawn to the weird and wonderful, we seek to cultivate Atlanta as a home for audacious outlier performance art that challenges both the artists and audience while provoking wonder, imagination, and delight.