The Cortège

IN MEMORIAM

Experience

CONTACT & SUPPORT

Premiered Fall 2025

a festive
funeral for
our timeS

Los Angeles, CA

A gathering
at the twilight
of the world
we once knew.

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Activating the lost arts of mythic pageantry, The Cortège is a participatory theater experience singing to a part of ourselves both ancient & eternal.

Amid a rapidly expiring culture and scarcity of shared meaning, The Cortège serves as a container for collective and individual grief. Via ceremonious procession, The Cortège mourns the fate of the modern era, invites a reckoning with the New Gods of Perplexity, and shepherds souls toward what lies beyond the veil.

Activating the lost arts of mythic pageantry, The Cortège is a participatory theater experience singing to a part of ourselves both ancient & eternal.

Occurring outdoors at dusk, The Cortège is a theatrical procession that mourns the fate of the modern era through movement, sound, costume, and spectacle.

The evening begins with an open-air food market and a live musical prelude. As twilight descends, passengers embark on a wordless journey through sound, movement, costume, and spectacle. At night’s end, all are invited to join the procession—toward safe passage and a gathering beyond the veil.

Occurring outdoors at dusk, The Cortège is a theatrical procession that mourns the fate of the modern era through movement, sound, costume, and spectacle.

SPECTACLE

The Cortège transmutes circuitry into ceremony through robotic performance, drone apparitions designed by Studio Hock and flown on Nova Sky Stories, integrated automation, and a simulcast score.

COSTUME

Inspired by medieval pageantry and seasonal rites of passage, The Cortège unfolds through archetypal costuming, large-scale puppetry, and custom set-pieces crafted in collaboration with artists including Damselfrau, Jonny Cota, Spencer Hansen, and others.

Movement

Led by decorated Japanese battle dancer and choreographer, MiYU (@miyu23_official), and featuring powerhouse street-style dancer Capjay (@capjjay) in the lead role, The Cortège embodies storytelling through physical expression and movement.

Sound

A curated cinematic score is transmitted through wireless headsets, featuring tracks from Boreta, El Búho, TOKiMONSTA, Air, Kiasmos, Rival Consoles, Andrew Bird, Slow Meadow, and others, mixed by interactive media studio [namethemachine]

The Cortège draws on the lost art of mythic pageantry to create what is largely absent in Western culture today: a shared container for collective grief.

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The Cortège draws on the lost art of mythic pageantry to create what is largely absent in Western culture: a shared container for collective grief.

The Cortège draws on the lost art of mythic pageantry to create what is largely absent in Western culture: a shared container for collective grief.

A gatheringat the twilightof the worldwe once knew.

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Activating the lost arts of mythic pageantry, The Cortège is a participatory theater experience singing to a part of ourselves both ancient & eternal.

Occurring outdoors at dusk, The Cortège is a theatrical procession that mourns the fate of the modern era through movement, sound, costume, and spectacle.

SPECTACLE

COSTUME

Movement

Sound

The Cortège draws on the lost art of mythic pageantry to create what is largely absent in Western culture today: a shared container for collective grief.

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