Made in USA is a multi-faceted festival that aims to introduce us to the “new” American avant-garde, as it emerged after the Wooster Group's radical experimentation at the Performing Garage in downtown Manhattan in the 1970s and 1980s. The festival is articulated around artists who have dominated the contemporary American scene from the late 1990s to the present day, with sharp stage forms that straddle the boundaries between performance, dance, theater, film, and installation. The festival will occupy the Main and Small Roof Stages, as well as outdoor spaces, and will showcase 10 artists and groups with a distinctive artistic vocabulary: radical experiments with repertoire works, bold explorations of pop culture, unconventional approaches to Judson Church's postmodernists, alternative uses New technologies, as well as participatory techniques that bring performers and spectators to the stage, are some of the main themes of this dynamic platform. At the same time, a symposium and a parallel program of workshops, masterclasses, and discussions with artists will explore the pluralism, challenges, and contradictions of this independent experimental scene at a historic moment of economic, social, and political upheaval both at the American and global levels.