Off-Leash Area’s newest original production, The Oldest Deer – The Longest Path – The Highest Bough, invites audiences on an imaginative journey of transformation: Set at the edge of a darkly mystical forest a ghostly herd of deer emerge from another time and space to deliver an invitation to transformation.

In this, the company’s 36th original production, Off-Leash Area combines dance, physical theater, and original music, all performed within an installation of projection art for a most creative and immersive experience. This production also continues Off-Leash Area’s partnership with Young Dance, whose mission is transforming lives through movement.

In The Oldest Deer – The Longest Path – The Highest Bough, Off-Leash Area builds an immersive space of projection art and physical performance drawn from world mythology. The show will feature an all-abilities, multi-generational cast including: Jim Lieberthal, Christine Maginnis, Piper Rolfes, Lexi Samara, Jesse Schmitz-Boyd, Julie Warder, Jennifer Ilse, and Paul Herwig. With direction and choreography by Co-Artistic Director Jennifer Ilse in collaboration with the cast, projection and installation art by co-artistic director Paul Herwig, original music and sound by Reid Kruger, and poetry by Athena Kildegaard, The Oldest Deer – The Longest Path – The Highest Bough will continue Off-Leash Area’s long run of presenting singular, imaginative, and uncompromising performance works.