Premiered at: HERE Art Center, New York City - June 2000. Performed By: Dawn Stoppiello, Mark Coniglio, Danielle Goldman, Anthony Gongora, Michou Szabo, Sandra Tillett, Diane Vivona and Pam Wagner.

The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz is an evening-length dance, theater, and media work that examines what is lost and gained in the moment of transformation. Most of us have experienced a painful loss of innocence that leads to a deepening of wisdom. And even though we appreciate the ultimate richness that such experiences bring to our lives, we also mourn for what was lost as a result. The Chemical Wedding examines this human process by looking at the transformations of two characters, one set five hundred years in the past and the other fifty years in the future.

The work takes its title from an anonymous, 17th Century alchemical manifesto written in the form of a spiritual allegory. The surrealistic imagery in the tale shows how the title character, Christian Rosenkreutz, uses alchemy – a technology of transformation – to destroy and then reconstitute a human soul via the "chemical wedding" of the title.