Dis-order is at once a performance, a communal ritual, and a family drama. A reimagining of the Passover Seder, the piece asks what forces move through us when we enact an ancient spring rite, and what is left unspoken when we gather around the table.

Upon entering the performance, the audience is handed a script and seated around the periphery of a large, hollow triangular table, reminiscent of Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party. The audience faces inward to see the "stage" within the negative space of the triangle. The Father leads us as performers and audience alike take their turns reading from the script. But other family members—Mother, Daughter, Son, and Baby—played by actors, dancers, and puppets, continually interrupt, bursting onto the "stage" to challenge the Father’s grip on order and on the meaning of this spring rite.

Directed by Mamie Green, Volta dance company fuses physicality, theatricality, and multidisciplinary approaches to performance. Green’s work lives across a variety of artistic mediums to engage diverse audiences and break the boundaries of contemporary dance. Green holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts and has performed and taught across the US, Europe, and the UK and is the recipient of grants from the German Consulate General, the US Embassy, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Community Engagement, and more.

Named in Fjord Review’s "Best of Dance 2023" and Bachtrack’s "Young Choreographers to Watch," Green has been commissioned and presented at the Laguna Art Museum, Jeffrey Deitch, MAXXI National Museum, East Miami Hotel, Brand Library, Neutra House VDL, Loyola Marymount University, Museum of Neon Art, Ace Hotel Brooklyn, MAK Center at the Schindler House, New Hollywood Theater, among others, with upcoming engagements at the Skirball Cultural Center.

Green is passionate about presenting dance in accessible, nontraditional spaces, often collaborating with artists across mediums. Green’s work has been presented in the US and abroad and has been reviewed by such publications as the LA Times.

Freak Nature Puppets is a collective of artists and puppeteers. They are the 2024 artists-in-residence at the Elysian Theater in Los Angeles. Past collaborators include the Bob Baker Marionette Theater, avant-puppeteers Poncili Creacion, and musician Childish Gambino. Past performance venues include the Skirball Cultural Center, Zebulon, Golden Gate Park, and Stomping Ground LA.

Ari Salka (Set Design) is an artist working primarily working through painting, drawing, and poetry. Salka holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in Painting from UCLA. Salka studied at the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art and received the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship in Norfolk, CT. Salka's work is featured in libraries and collections, including the LACA, the UCLA Arts Library, and the ROSA KWIR Archive in Mosta, Malta.

Patrick Shiroishi (Composer) is a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist and composer based in Los Angeles who is perhaps best known for his extensive and incredibly intense work with the saxophone. Over the last decade he has established himself as one of the premier improvising musicians in Los Angeles, playing solo and in numerous collaborative projects. Shiroishi may well be considered a foundational player in the city’s vast musical expanse.

Rebecca Shultz (Writer) writes fiction about reality dating show contestants, American tourists abroad, Swifties, fifth-grader Kabbalists, and other people. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and in the Santa Monica Review, where it was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches fiction and poetry at UC Irvine. 

Sophie Becker ("The Father") is a ventriloquist and actor based in New York City. She has performed with her Jerry Mahoney figure at Rockaway Film Festival to open for John Wilson of HBO’s How To with John Wilson, as well as Pageant Space, Life World, Art Lot Brooklyn, Blade Study, Theatre 80 St Marks, among others.