VE Performance is our platform for the creation and presentation of original, visually mesmerizing, politically charged live performances, which serve as frameworks for a public dialogue around polarizing concerns and pressing issues. 

Our original productions are positioned at the intersection of groundbreaking theatricality and social activism, and are intended to inspire, empower, and awe the audience while fostering debate and encouraging a call for action.

Our work is produced in a laboratory environment through a rigorous process that involves long periods of research, collaboration and experimentation. We engage the communities and artists we work with to explore issues that matter to them, share their stories of identity, place, and belonging, and use devised and collaborative theater practices, interview-based theater, visual dramaturgy, and visual playwriting as tools to express those stories in multilayered, multimedia performances that redefine the boundaries of theatre

VE Community is a theater-based social and civic dialogue platform for innovative partnerships that bridge the gap between art and communities – local, regional, national and international, both in theatre and non-theatre settings. 

We challenge communities with the question: How can we share a common experience among people who may feel they have nothing in common, and break down the walls that too often divide us in everyday life? We challenge ourselves with the question: How can Visual Echo help diverse communities communicate fruitfully across cultural and political divides? 

We bring our unique arts-based processes and visual communication tools to the table and apply visual storytelling, interactive installations, and the creation of stimulating environments, in order to provoke people into effective communication and cultural exchange with those they may not understand or feel connected to in any other way. 

We use arts-based civic dialogue to bring diverse New York communities into meaningful exchange with one another concerning community-identified complex and polarizing issues, in order to foreground marginalized voices and dismantle identity-based inequity. We go past the rhetoric of politicians and connect actual people in a society with one another by urging them to engage in imaginative thinking and expressive actions.

VE Education is our training ground for employing art and storytelling techniques to activate creativity of to activate the creativity of both artists and non-artists, with the goal of unlocking alternate perspectives, awakening empathy, and fostering a respectful exchange of ideas among people.

We facilitate interactive workshops, classes, lectures and other educational activities designed to equip individuals with the skills, knowledge, and inspiration needed to share their stories and express their artistic creativity.

VE offers custom-designed training programs for a wide range of participants and organizations, including performance artists, educational institutions, community organizations and corporate clients. 

Performance Artists:  VEE aims to invigorate the creative practices of our artistic community (professional and academic) by offering affordable training workshops on the fundamental techniques underlying our groundbreaking devising methods. We welcome artists from all different disciplines, interests, abilities and backgrounds to expand on their theatrical vocabularies and engage in cross-disciplinary exchange where everyone contributes artistic input to foster creative storytelling.

Schools: VEE provides a variety of accessible school programs for all ages and grade levels that engage students creatively, physically and analytically through the use of theatrical design and visual art techniques. We are committed to making our programs affordable to low-income public schools. We believe that every student, independent of race, class, gender, age, ability, and sexuality has unlimited creative potential, and that it is our job to create an environment where creativity can happen, and students can harness and realize it. Our learn-by-doing framework helps students unlock their personal imagination through their discoveries, and develop confidence, self-esteem and self-expression. We offer innovative multidisciplinary storytelling workshops designed to empower students to reflect and reconstruct complex notions about their identity, values, and beliefs, in order to harness their potential for empathy and reduce the level of bias and misunderstanding in generations of tomorrow.

Community organizations: VEE is passionate about making a difference in our communities. We offer our creative tools through partnerships with a broad sector of community groups and bring high-quality artistic experiences directly to underserved communities. We are committed to assisting marginalized New York populations through a wide variety of free practical workshops, designed for those who have little to no formal training in visual media or performance. 

Corporate Clients:  VEEs school and community programs are partially supported through training activities for corporate clients. VEE provides arts-based training that offers a fresh, dynamic approach to personal, team and organizational development. We help our clients initiate collaboration and teamwork, and develop strategies to reach their goals, through an innovative design strategy and storytelling approach that entails visual speculation, creation of spatiotemporal maps, design charrettes, and development of prototypes. We use an explicitly design-centric space as a physical framework for collaborative thinking, to help clients generate hybrid, deeply felt, embedded, and original articulations of their current needs and challenges not readily available through other forms.