Double Edge is a living system of art, land, and community.
Double Edge Theatre is based in Ashfield, MA where we have transformed a 100-acre farm into a living system of rural cultural development. Since moving from Boston in 1994, we have grown into a vibrant hub that integrates art, clean energy, food security, housing, and economic development to benefit our communities.
Three Systems, One Ecosystem
Arts and Culture
Our performances blend visual poetry, physicality, and immersive connection to the land. Our training programs share the Ensemble’s rigorous, holistic, physically based methodology. We offer residencies where artists collaborate, reflect, and renew their creative practice, and host events that honor Ashfield’s cultural fabric while cultivating relationships beyond the local.
Rural Resilience Infrastructure
We build and sustain the physical systems that communities need to thrive: Subsidized housing for cultural workers, emphasizing long-term affordability and community integration. Food grown on site or sourced from local farms, nourishing our company, collaborators, and visitors. Facilities powered with clean energy systems that model sustainable rural living.
Movement Building
Long-term Art Justice partnerships are a cornerstone of our practice and process and include Jupiter Performance Studio, The Theater Offensive, No Loose Braids, The Kinfolk Effect, and, previously, Ohketeau Cultural Center, as well as a fiscal sponsorship of Kintinuum. These relationships are rooted in our core belief in mutual flourishing, transparency, and shared abundance. As a hub for regional and national cultural activity, our model generates both economic development and cultural leadership. Since Double Edge’s founding, we have collaborated to make convenings and gatherings that advance intersectionality and collective vision.
As a hub for local, regional, and international cultural activity, our model generates both economic development for our rural town of Ashfield and ignites cultural leadership shifts in the ways arts and cultural organizations see their relationship to land and community.Double Edge Theatre
