3rd Law has produced its signature evening-length performances since its founding in 2001. Our concerts are, according to one audience member, "seamless." Each concert (listed on the right) has a narrative arc that addresses some essential human condition. We do not provide a facile answer, and our audience is left to ponder a thoughtful dilemma as they exit the theater.

Our single-theme, evening-length works make use of sound sampling, special effects and “found sounds” to create unique soundscapes, and we use props, theatrical staging and video imagery to create textured layers of atmosphere and ambience.

The company embraces diverse movement vocabularies, visual styles and musical sources. 3rd Law has joined forces with actors, writers, martial artists, visual artists, historians, ethnologists and musicians to enhance its body of work.

Authentic ReProduction (2012)

Bread & Salt (2011)

The CleanRoom Restaged (2010)

Till We Wake (2009)

The CleanRoom (2008)

Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear (2007)

Lost in Place (2007)

A Mannequin Dream (2006)

Iconoclashtic (2005)

Bread & Salt (2004)

Barometric Pressure (2003)

3rd Law performs in a variety of places such as the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, SPARK Gallery and at the McMahon Gallery at The Dairy Center for the Arts. Works by 3rd Law have been commissioned by, among others, Boulder Ballet and Ballet Nouveau Colorado.

Katie Elliott and Jim LaVita have given Workshops, Residencies and set individual multi-media dance/theater pieces at universities and colleges around the country and at professional dance studios and schools.

The company creates performance pieces and installations as well as its signature evening-length works. Complete longer works or extracts from them are available to be set on companies and individuals. Request a DVD.