What is grace? I prefer to think of it as an absence, an empty space that opens up inside of us and let's us see nakedly, clearly. grace zeroes in on particular moments in time and events that reveal the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary. The characters' stories and circumstances are told through epiphanies in movement and sound. Goode collaborates with composer Mikel Rouse, who will also appear as a performer in grace.

Folk - reveals "rural" dwellers in the full panoply of their complexity and contradictions. It debunks the myth of the "simple" person and delves into the rich territory of the personal vulnerability and magic of the individual. In Folk, Goode continues his profound examination of the American West, where ordinary people often have extraordinary spirits and stories.

Music is composed by Beth Custer through the support of a Meet the Composer award.

Mythic, Montana is a place where ordinary people have extraordinary lives. It's a place where love is lost and then found, a place where one's fate is never certain.

I first began to imagine Mythic, Montana while reading Greek mythology. I was struck by how "human" and fallible the Gods were. It seemed they were deciding the fate of mortals in the most capricious manner; they were vengeful and jealous and emotional in their judgments. It occurred to me that none of us know what fate holds for us and that goodness may go unrewarded (the circumstances of our lives may end up differently than how we imagined them). This is a theme I keep returning to in my work - nothing is like we expected and we have little control over how it plays out.

Transparent Body falls within the series of pieces about the body. It looks at all the ways in which the body is not a firm, fixed, or reliable location. The central character in the piece shifts from a yodeling Heidi to a mournful, isolated truck driver. The point is that no matter how fully we become ourselves there is always another body inside of us. This is a quirky work, both shocking and endearing, that features Goode himself in the tour-de-force dual roles as a young man seeking self and community and his red-necked, beer-chugging and foul-mouthed father. The piece is based on songs by three San Francisco composers presented cabaret style by Goode and his company.

What the Body Knows is a piece of dance theater based on small incidents in people's lives wherein they relinquished reason and made decisions according to some greater wisdom from the body. The work centers on private, interior perspectives on very human stories. How do we choose our relationships, our extended families, even our gender identity? How do we learn to feel who we are instead of assuming society's pre-determined roles, which can lead to unhappiness and even violent or self-destructive behavior? And how do we live our lives knowing that we are going to die?

An important element in What the Body Knows is the contribution of video artist Doug Rosenberg. Working with both pre-recorded and real-time imagery, Goode and Rosenberg create a video landscape as a counterpoint to the text and movement.