Mike Barber happily presents Now, an evening of three new solo dances, performed by Mike and choreographed by three massively talented artists, Gregg Bielemeier, Randee Paufve, and Cydney Wilkes. Each of them has known Mike for three decades. After all that time and at this later point in their lives, the four (all over 60), ask, “What’s it like to create/dance now?” You’ll find their answers surprising, delightful, challenging, and full of appreciation for the present moment.

An original member of the Gregg Bielemeier Dance Project from 1994-2005, Mike and Gregg reunite for And Then That Happened. Using Gregg's signature witty and highly physical style, the piece follows an abstract character who takes the audience here and there, surprising and delighting along the way. There will be costume change, there will be a pink river floaty, and there will be a ukulele.

Mike and Randee reunite for Mike & Marie. They both performed in Gregg’s unforgettable Odd Duck Lake in 2005. And since, Randee has taken part multiple times in Mike's Ten Tiny Dances, and Mike performed in Randee's powerful trio Misgivings. Mike & Marie is an homage to Marie Antoinette contextualizing her as an extravagant, transgressive young queen. Danced by Mike, a 68-year-old gay man performing in drag, the dance takes a more expansive and compassionate response to Antoinette and her place, the place of many such women, in history.

Friends and dance collaborators for over 25 years. Cydney Wilkes' and Mike's many shared artistic adventures include multiple tiny dances, a duet commissioned from the legendary Deborah Hay, and Cydney's extraordinary five season long site-specific work Penta. Trusty Everything is abstracted from what she knows of Mike and his everyday life. It builds on the signature whimsy and deep conviction that many of their previous pieces have incorporated.