Asset, Liability & Equity is an interactive performance that combines concert dance with a game full of choices. As an audience member, you don't just watch—you help determine how the story unfolds.

How do you survive in a system that completely surrounds you and determines what is and isn’t possible, what is and isn’t allowed? Welcome to the arena of Asset, Liability & Equity: a blend of razor-sharp concert dance and intense Hunger Games. Here, you’re not a voyeur—you actively influence the outcome through your cheering and judgment. As the game spirals out of control, you’re drawn into a world that bears a striking resemblance to our own. You’ll love it / you’ll hate it. But the question remains: can you handle it?

You help decide the outcome in an arena filled with brilliant dance

In this new creation by ARK/Connor Schumacher, an MC guides five participants through a merciless game filled with power, validation, and exclusion. In a tightly choreographed piece featuring brilliant dance, they try to retain or take away from one another their assets (beauty, skills, audience favor) and liabilities (body, skin color, gender). As an audience member, you’re not just watching—you’re helping to shape a world where competition feels like love and empathy is mistaken for weakness. Who takes responsibility here?

Warning: This performance contains full nudity and scenes of violence. Recommended for ages 18 and up.