{"id":5882,"date":"2024-12-11T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T23:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/?page_id=5882"},"modified":"2025-12-30T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:18:53","slug":"pillars-of-programming","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/pillars-of-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pillars of Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t#builder-section-1733959542940 .builder-banner-slide {\n\t\tpadding-bottom: 600px;\n\t}\n\t@media screen and (min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 960px) {\n\t\t#builder-section-1733959542940 .builder-banner-slide {\n\t\t\tpadding-bottom: 62.5%;\n\t\t}\n\t}\n\t<\/style>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1733959542940\" class=\"builder-section  builder-section-first builder-section-banner builder-section-next-text\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-slide content-position-none\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/www.tornspacetheater.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Pillars-of-Programming-1-scaled.jpg&#039;);\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-banner-inner-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"builder-section-1733959517156\" class=\"builder-section builder-section-prev-banner builder-section-text builder-section-last builder-text-columns-4\">\n<div class=\"builder-section-content\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-1\" id=\"builder-section-1733959517156-column-1\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><strong>Mainstage Productions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Torn Space&#8217;s Mainstage Productions reimagine theater classics and bring contemporary plays to life with an emphasis on innovative and multimedia design. Cutting-edge scenography, costuming, sound, and lighting make our Mainstage Productions singular performance experiences and consistently earn Torn Space recognition at the annual Artie Awards. With high literary merit and experimental direction, staging and casting, productions in this series bring world-class contemporary performance to Buffalo.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-2\" id=\"builder-section-1733959517156-column-2\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><strong>Independent Artist Performances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The Independent Artist Performances highlight the exemplary work of local and international artists through special event presentations, introducing audiences to a wider community of visionary contemporary creatives, often in a uniquely intimate, salon-style setting. These performances focus on building cross-disciplinary awareness, connection and collaboration in the artistic community.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-3\" id=\"builder-section-1733959517156-column-3\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><strong>Site-Specific Experiences<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Perhaps the most visible of Torn Space&#8217;s programming is its large-scale site-specific experiences which draw large audiences to epic settings such as Silo City and Central Terminal for spectacular experimental theater events. These performances have earned Torn Space national and international recognition in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, and at the Prague Quadrennial conference in 2019 and 2023. These multidisciplinary projects feature dozens of artists as actors, designers, and community members as performers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"builder-text-column builder-text-column-4\" id=\"builder-section-1733959517156-column-4\">\n<div class=\"builder-text-content\">\n<p><strong>Agents of Change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Agents of Change is an outreach project with a focus on education, community involvement in both the East and West Side of Buffalo, performance, public art and storytelling.<\/span> <span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">This project<\/span> <span class=\"OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">provides the community access to the arts, highlights local community members, collaborates with artists, and activates businesses and architectural assets in both the West and East side of Buffalo. Agents of Change is a collaboration between Torn Space Theater and Lafayette International High School and has been supported by Just Buffalo Literary Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainstage Productions Torn Space&#8217;s Mainstage Productions reimagine theater classics and bring contemporary plays to life with an emphasis on innovative and multimedia design. Cutting-edge scenography, costuming, sound, and lighting make our Mainstage Productions singular performance experiences and consistently earn Torn Space recognition at the annual Artie Awards. 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