Wednesday / April 29, 2026 at 4:30 pm From Academy Award®-nominated director Robert Stone, a New York Times Critics Pick documentary. In this meditative, intergalactic biopic, we follow Gentry Lee, Chief Engineer for Planetary Exploration at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and sci-fi writer, on his journey through space and on Earth. From the Viking and Voyager missions to co-authoring the future with Arthur C. Clarke, Lee’s life has been spent with his head in the stars and his feet on the ground.

Saturday / April 25, 2026 at 2:00 pm How does liberation feel in the body? How do structures of violence shape the spaces around our bodies and around our planet? Talk, Performance Thuto Durkac-Somo, Jonathan González & Mario Gooden

Date: Saturday, April 25, 2026 (all day) - How do our bodies shape experience and make meaning? Join us for Corpus, a festive weekend of performances, installations, and talks by artists who challenge and expand how we move through society, space, and one another. Your Saturday at Corpus features an afternoon with writer-filmmaker Thuto Durkac-Somo, choreographer Jonathan González, and architect Mario Gooden. Lounge at the Yellow Lab Book Bar, and don’t miss nibia pastrana santiago in the theater! Installations open 11AM–6PM Saturday.

Friday / April 24, 2026 at 8:00 pm How does a site choreograph us? How might we re-choreograph it—or at least allow its architecture to hold our sense of time differently? Performance nibia pastrana santiago

Friday / April 24, 2026 at 6:00 pm How does dance take up space in the world? Why pay attention to the histories of the places where people gather to create and watch choreography? What happens when those places are contested? Talk Arabella Stanger

Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 4:00 AM - 7:00 AM - RCOS and Computer Science present the CS Expo, a gathering of undergraduate and graduate research poster presentations. Come and see what your friends have been working on in RCOS, in undergraduate research, and in other courses. Light refreshments will be available. We hope you’ll join us!

Date: Friday, April 24, 2026 (all day) - Across the EMPAC building, creative experiments in dance and theater explore power, control, freedom, mutual responsibility, and the potential to move differently. Join us to witness — and even participate in — experiences by rule-breaking artists. RSVP for the group activation of "Raft" by Yanira Castro | a canary torsi; the talk "Dancing Land, Dancing Power" from Arabella Stanger; and the performance "preámbulo" by nibia pastrana santiago. All festival installations are open 11AM–10PM Friday.

Thursday / April 23, 2026 at 6:00 pm The festival opens with a gathering: a free, family-style, long-table supper co-hosted by artist Yanira Castro, with creative contributions by partners and artists from across Troy, NY and the Capital Region, including food grounded in Indonesian ancestral traditions by Chef Ria Ibrahim and musical offerings by Taína Asili.

April 23-May 8, 2026 How are our bodies formed by the shifting ground that holds us up? How do we reshape and reform over time? How are we aligned in space and time with the environment around us? Installation Meg Foley & Carmichael Jones

April 23-25, 2026 Troy’s own Yellow Lab Vintage & Books hosts a pop-up bookstore and reading lounge filled with titles about space, place, performance, and embodiment, carefully selected by Yellow Lab’s Jessica DuPont along with selections by the festival’s artists and curator. Hang out on cozy couches with a wine or beer from Evelyn’s Café and peruse the shelves of new and used books for sale. Other books are just for display, offering glimpses into artists’ personal, annotated copies. Corpus Festival 2026