Sideshow Physical Theatre was a resident performing company of the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts and the resident professional company in the Department of Theatre and Dance. The company was devoted to the exploration of new performance forms and the consequent creation of interdisciplinary work that merges text, dance, video, and film into productions that are viscerally, artistically, and intellectually challenging. Sideshow produced performances 2002-2010.

Tilly No-Body, 2010, Devised and performed by Bella Merlin

Elephant’s Graveyard, 2009, Written and Directed by Jade Rosina McCutcheon

Collapse (Suddenly Falling Down), 2007, Directed by Della Davidson, in collaboration with geologists Louise Kellogg and Dawn Sumner, computer scientists Michael Neff and Oliver Kreylos, and physicist Jim Crutchfield, with text by Ed Gaible

Fierce/Pink/House, 2007, Della Davidson explores the power of women’s bodies through dance, theater and poetry.

A Dream Inside Another, 2005, Created and directed by Della Davidson and John Flax, Based on stories by Isabel Allende from The Stories of Eva Luna, Music by Richard Marriott

The Desire to Return to the Safety of Day, 2003, Choreographed and Directed by Della Davidson, Text by Kevin Ottem-Fox, Music by Richard Marriott

The Ten P.M. Dream, 2002, Choreographed and Directed by Della Davidson, Text by Anne Sexton, Music by Richard Marriott