ALAY is a participatory performance ritual that invites audience members into a shared space of healing, remembrance, and reconnection. Rooted in the Filipino word "alay," meaning “offering,” this work explores how ritual can serve as both an artistic practice and a communal act of hope.

Created and produced by RIFFRAFF NYC co-founder Dorothea Gloria, ALAY will bring together an ensemble of ten artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. The ensemble will use devised theater techniques to build a new, contemporary ritual that responds to the urgent emotional and spiritual needs of our time.

Rather than presenting a conventional play, ALAY is designed as an immersive experience where audience members are guided through an evolving sequence of collective acts that involve gesture, breath, writing, sound, silence, etc.

Through ALAY, we ask: What rituals do we need now? What can we offer each other through performance? And how can gathering with purpose and presence become its own kind of healing?