2025-2026 Beyond Season

The ASU Gammage Beyond series is one that invites audiences to experience the bold and provoking works of world renown artists through dance, performance and artistic expression destined to inspire. The 2025–2026 season is filled with the kind of storytelling that will leave you asking for more and examining the world through a new lens. The lineup of shows brings ASU Gammage’s mission of Connecting CommunitiesTM to life on stage in immersive and timeless ways.

“This season of Beyond will reveal new horizons, asking us to reflect on our differences and challenge them. It invites audience to not only find joy in the nontraditional arts experience but go…. BEYOND. " - Michael Reed, ASU Gammage Senior Director of Programs and Organizational Initiatives.

$10 student tickets available in person at the ASU Gammage box office.

$15 ASU staff tickets available in person at the ASU Gammage box office.

STILL/HERE

Bill T. Jones

Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025

Still/Here explores and contemplates survival, life and art through dance and music. Still/Here is a two-act, evening-length dance-theater piece (premiered 1994) with a visual score made from edited interviews with people who were or are facing life-threatening illnesses.

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Christopher Rivas

Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025

A three-part immersive performance ritual tackles the human condition head-on, revealing how contemporary life bears striking parallels to the enduring curses of Sisyphus, Tantalus and Narcissus. These three Greek myths are timeless: A man pushing a rock up a hill, someone left thirsty & hungry for eternity, and a narcissist drowning himself over and over. Writer/Performer Christopher Rivas delves into the haunting never-ending cycle of memory, the capitalist obsession with “more,” and the self-indulgence of being trapped inside our own algorithms. How can these myths/stories/lessons help us through the madness and mess, and bring a deeper understanding of ourselves?

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THE MIGRATION

Step Afrika! 

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Step Afrika!’s signature work The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence is based on Lawrence’s iconic painting series that chart the story of African Americans moving from the South to the North in the early 1900s. Each piece uses the images, color palette, and motifs in the painting series to tell this astonishing story through pulsating rhythms and visually stunning movement.

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INDIAN SCHOOL

Timothy White Eagle

Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026

Indian School is a deeply personal and visually arresting solo performance by Timothy White Eagle. It weaves together historical trauma, cultural identity, and ancestral connections to examine the enduring effects of forced assimilation on personal and communal belonging. This exploration is inspired by White Eagle's own story of adoption and his grandfather’s experience in government-run boarding schools for Native American children.          

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EVER SO SLIGHTY

Rubberband Dance

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Rubberband Dance is back, with ten dancer-athletes in top form. Ever So Slightly explores the behavioral mechanisms and reflexes we develop against the ceaseless flow of irritants that bombard us in our daily lives. Most of us long for calm and resilience, but how do we get to a zone where noise and aggressivity no longer have a place? Simultaneously delivering delicacy, brutality, finesse, and high-voltage action, the choreographer conveys all the energy contained in urgency, revolt, chaos, and flight.

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