The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O'Connor

The Lensic is thrilled to co-commission a new production inspired by Sinéad O’Connor’s uncompromising voice and spirit. Tony award-winning choreographer and director Sonya Tayeh brings her singular vision to a dance work set to the O’Connor’s music. Fierce, unflinching, and tender, The Surge: An Ode to Sinéad O’Connor is a meditation on voice, protest, and the courage to live a life that defies the norm. 

The Surge is performed by a company of ten women—ten dance artists cutting right through the notion of age as something to fear. These women total more than five hundred years of collective wisdom, affirming the passing of time as a privilege that carries beauty and experience with it.   

The Surge is conceived, choreographed, and directed by Sonya Tayeh, a creative visionary whose work relating to the boy in motion explores many different worlds.

Commissioned by the Joyce Theater’s Cathy and Weinroth Fund for New Work and Factory International, Manchester. Co-commissioned by the Lensic Performing Arts Center, the Charleston Gaillard Center, and ArtPower at UC San Diego. 

Event Sponsors: Andrew Eiseman & Brian Braa, Catherine Oppenheimer, and Willa Shalit & Jim Heynan