ANYA KLEPIKOV
Set + Costume Designer
The You-Cube
The You-Cube is a tiny, re-usable performance space outside which will be installed in front of the ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance on the Williams College campus in the Fall of 2026.
Live, Local, and Customizable, the You-Cube welcomes your creativity in any genre: you can act, sing, dance, read, play an instrument or just sit and meditate (You Are Enough!) while an audience from 1 to 17 spectates through cracks in the walls. This is an opportunity for our community to engage in unique intimate micro-shows as performers and spectators.
Designed for today’s user, the You-Cube is Customizable and Brief. These unique performances are SHORT! If you Blink, you Miss it. Everyone gets just 15 minutes inside of the You-Cube.
With the reduced scale of a 5-10 min. performance in an 11’ x 11’ playing space and a tiny audience of friends or passersby, the You-Cube not only invites experienced performers but also offers access to those who don’t typically engage with traditional theater but have a need to be seen. Any passerby attracted by the mystery inside of the You-Cube can expect to be inspired by the outpouring of multi-disciplinary and experimental expression.
Dramaturgical Consultant: Harley Erdman.
Model of the You-Cube: interior.
Model of the You-Cube: interior
Sketches of intermediate prep versions of the You-Cube:
Sketch of a test version of the You-Cube incorporated into the bus stop at the Mill District, Amherst, MA.
Sketch of a test version of the You-Cube incorporated into the fence at the Mill District, Amherst, MA.
Working on promo video about the You-Cube with film maker Perry Hallinan.