Everyday is A Pig's Birthday at Triskelion Arts

Flying Pigs, Melting Cakes, and a Joke That Never Ends:

Dreamborne Theater Presents: Everyday is A Pig's Birthday

New movement-driven ensemble work explores birthdays, care, and the strange distance between people trying to reach one another — three performances only, July 17–18 at Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn

BROOKLYN, NY — Dreamborne Theater, a New York-based nonprofit performance collective, will present the world premiere of Everyday is A Pig's Birthday, a movement-driven ensemble work about birthdays, failed celebrations, a flying pig, melting ice cream cakes, and a joke that never reaches its ending. The production runs for three performances only — July 17 at 7:30 PM, and July 18 at 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM — at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn, NY. Running time is 60–70 minutes with no intermission.

The piece follows a recurring birthday party that keeps returning in slightly different forms. People sing, prepare cakes, relight candles, put on hats, and try again. Some guests want the celebration to last forever. Others seem desperate for it to end. As the performance repeats and shifts, small gestures begin to feel heavier. A birthday becomes less about celebration and more about the uncomfortable distance between people trying to reach one another.

In Everyday is A Pig's Birthday, the birthday party is a repeated social ritual through which care, intimacy, and alienation are continuously intertwined. The work inhabits a temporality where celebration never fully arrives nor disappears, but is transformed into a choreography of memory, longing, and fragile connection. At once playful and quietly lonely, Everyday is A Pig's Birthday invites audiences into a world of flying pigs, melting ice cream, failed parties, and celebrations that never fully settle into place.

The production marks the directorial vision of Tara P. Nyingjè and the producing debut of Esther Ho, marking Dreamborne Theater's fourth production in just over a year since the company's founding.

"This is my first time producing, and this piece has taught me that a birthday party is not only about happiness and successful, but it can also be messy, strange, unorganized, boring and a failure — you keep trying to make someone feel celebrated, even when the celebration keeps falling apart in some way. That’s exactly the spirit we want audiences to step into," said producer Esther Ho.

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

What: Everyday is A Pig's Birthday, presented by Dreamborne Theater

When: Friday, July 17 at 7:30 PM; Saturday, July 18 at 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM

Where: Triskelion Arts, Brooklyn, NY

Run Time: 60–70 minutes with no intermission

Tickets: $30 in advance, $35 at the door. Use code BDAYPIGSINNYC for 15% off the first 20 early-bird tickets across all three performances.

Tickets available at: simpletix.com/e/everyday-is-a-pig-s-birthday-tickets-281491

CREATIVE TEAM

Director/Playwright: Tara P. Nyingjè

Artistic Director: Yannis Ning

Choreographer: Soraya Omtzigt

Dramaturg: Vela Xiyuan Zhu

Composer/Sound Designer: Hastings Su

Puppet Designer/Projection Technician: Kurt Qian

Puppet Fabricator/Projection Technician: Jerry Zhao

Puppeteer: Haocheng Li

Visual Designer: Leo Zheng

Producer: Esther Ho

Production Stage Manager: Fiona Li

Stage Manager: Geboli Long

Marketing Director: Estella Tang

Sponsorship and Outreach Manager: Yiwei Liu

Ensemble: Mia Berrada, Yanzi Ding, Ana Elliott, Colum Greeley Goebelbecker, Mer Muirhead, Yi Tong

This production is made possible with generous support from the Center for Remembering and Sharing (CRS).

ABOUT DREAMBORNE THEATER

Dreamborne Theater is a New York-based nonprofit performance collective committed to developing and presenting cross-cultural performing arts rooted in dreams, myth, and memory. Through ritualistic and fantastical works, we investigate the evolving nature of identity, language, and culture—embracing the fragmented self as a space of transformation, rebirth, and fairytale. Alongside our artistic productions, we offer educational programs that empower individuals to engage with myth and ritual as creative tools for self-discovery and collective storytelling.

Learn more at dreambornetheater.org.

MEDIA CONTACT

Esther Ho

Producer, Dreamborne Theater

eshnamh@gmail.com

510-850-4351