Collapsable Hole

{{Short description|Avant-garde performance space in New York City}} {{Infobox venue | name = Collapsable Hole | image = File:Collapsable-hole-2024.jpg | caption = Collapsable Hole at Westbeth, 2024 | nickname = The Hole | location = 155 Bank Street<br />Manhattan, New York City | coordinates = {{Coord|40.7363|-74.0091|format=dms|type:landmark_region:US-NY|display=inline,title}} | type = | broke_ground = | built = | opened = | renovated = | expanded = | closed = | demolished = | owner = | former_names = | seating_type = | seating_capacity = | public_transit = | website = {{URL|https://thehole.site}} | embedded = }} The '''Collapsable Hole''' is a artist-run performance space in New York City.

Co-founded in 2000 by the performance companies Radiohole and The Collapsable Giraffe, The Hole was originally located at 146 Metropolitan Avenue in Willamsburg, Brooklyn<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lost Spaces |url=https://www.litny.org/lost-spaces |access-date=2026-01-10 |website=League of Independent Theater |language=en-US}}</ref>. Described in ''The New York Times'' as "a spare industrial box except for all the techie gadgetry"<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Calhoun |first=Ada |date=Feb 6, 2005 |title=Where All the Neighborhood Is a Stage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/theater/newsandfeatures/where-all-the-neighborhood-is-a-stage.html |access-date=January 10, 2026 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> it helped establish the area as "a full-fledged theater district. Call it Off Off Off Broadway"<ref name=":0" />, alongside The Charlie Pineapple Theater, The Brick, Galapagos Art Space, the Streb Laboratory for Action Mechanics (SLAM), Monkey Town, and Supreme Trading.

The Metropolitan Avenue location opened on December 1, 2000 and existed until its final Memorial Service on September 14, 2013<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bent |first=Eliza |date=2013-11-01 |title=The End of a Hole Era |url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2013/11/01/the-end-of-a-hole-era/ |access-date=2026-01-10 |website=AMERICAN THEATRE |language=en-US}}</ref>. It was later resurrected at 155 Bank Street in the West Village, Manhattan at Westbeth, where it continues to serve as a forum for avant performance.

==Partners / Affiliated Artists== As of 2026, partners in The Hole are Mallory Catlett / Restless NYC, Collapsible Giraffe / Jim Findlay, Immediate Medium, Cyrus Moshrefi, Object Collection, and Radiohole. Affiliated artists are Daniel Fish, Aaron Landsman, Findlay//Sandsmark, and Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-12 |title=Artists |url=https://thehole.site/artists/ |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=Collapsable Hole |language=en}}</ref>

==Other Associated Artists==

The Hole has see presentations of work by numerous artists and performance companies, including<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-13 |title=The Hole is Dead! (Long Live The Hole!) |url=https://www.culturebot.org/2013/09/18907/the-hole-is-dead-long-live-the-hole/ |access-date=2026-01-10 |website=Culturebot |language=en-US}}</ref>:

* Anna Kohler * Banana Bag & Bodice * Ben Neill * Big Dance Theater * Bob McGrath * Cynthia Hopkins * Elevator Repair Service * Joe Silovsky * Mikel Rouse * NTUSA * Sibyl Kempson * Young Jean Lee ==Recognition==

* Obie Grant, 2003<ref>{{Cite web |title=03 |url=https://www.obieawards.com/events/2000s/year-03/ |access-date=2026-01-10 |website=Obie Awards |language=en-US}}</ref>

==References==

Category:West Village