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Immersive Silent Disco Ballet The Circuit, Inspired by La Ronde, Sets Brooklyn Premiere

Audience members will be given wireless headphones upon arrival and be able to move freely alongside performers.

April 14, 2026 By Margaret Hall

New York Theatre Company (NYTC) will stage THE CIRCUIT: An Immersive Silent Disco Ballet later this spring.

The immersive work, inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, will begin performances May 15, with opening night set for May 21. The production will run through June 29. The Circuit reimagines Schnitzler’s cycle of intimate encounters through a pulse-driven silent disco ballet that fuses dance, theatre, and nightlife into a site-specific experience in the streets of Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Audience members will be given wireless headphones upon arrival and will be able to move freely alongside the performers. Through the headphones, audience members will hear a fully pre-recorded audio experience that only they can hear, with spoken dialogue, internal monologues, and an original EDM score with sound design. While the story is delivered through the headphones, audience members will be surrounded by contemporary movement language driving the storytelling forward in real time.

Co-directed by Josh Zacher and John Kroft, choreographed by Zacher, and written by Connor Wentworth, The Circuit will feature an original score and sound design by Jacob Ryan Smith, with associate sound design by Anna Tobin.

Dancers and performers (who will be revealed at a later date) will lead the audience from location to location—through cobblestone alleys, storefronts, and beneath the Manhattan Bridge skyline—so the audience is continuously walking through the work as it happens. This production requires full physical mobility from its audience members.

For more information, visit NYTheatreCompany.com.

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