A Note On Ticket Prices

The Chocolate Factory Theater now offers a tiered ticketing price structure, with the goal of remaining accessible to every person who wishes to attend our events while acknowledging the very real value of the service – namely, artistic and administrative labor – that a ticket purchase represents.

We ask that you select the option that best reflects your individual circumstances. This is not a “pay what you wish” scenario; rather, it’s “pay as much as your circumstances allow”. For context: in the absence of outside funding, a true cost ticket to a Chocolate Factory performance would be $275.

Our tiered options are as follows:

1. $0 (free admission)
2. $35 (base price – the equivalent of one hour of labor for a lead artist, performer, design collaborator or technician)
3. $25
4. $15
5. $50
6. $100
7. $275 (true cost ticket)

Our intention here is not to create walled gardens or tiers of access based on monetary status; we’re merely trying to make our practice – of paying artists, technicians and administrative staff a fair wage (more than 80% of our annual budget goes to labor, fyi) – more sustainable (or truthfully, less unsustainable), while remaining (we hope!) accessible and welcoming to all.

As a ticket buyer, you’ll receive the same experience regardless of the price you pay. It’s general admission for everyone.

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Event will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

Approaches to Hollow Center explores erasure/nothingness and existence/being. In this showing at the Chocolate Factory Theater, Yamamoto collaborates and performs this dance with dancer choreographer Kayvon Pourazar along with sound artist Cenk Ergün. This dance and its choreography arises from deep interpersonal yet philosophical dialogues between the performers through exchanges of writings and physical exploration in the studio. Together, they approach the dynamic equilibrium of nothingness and being as a constantly shifting condition.

Created by Takahiro Yamamoto. Performed by Takahiro Yamamoto & Kayvon Pourazar. Sound by Cenk Ergün. Light & Installation by Maggie Heath.

Supported by Creative Capital and The Chocolate Factory Theater.