Time & Space Limited Theatre Company

Since its inception in 1973, Time & Space Limited has broken the boundaries of conventional theater, transcending the confines of narrative and integrating dance, visual art, technology, language and sound. The TSL ensemble performed in both traditional and alternative spaces in NYC such as La Mama E.T.C., Merce Cunningham Studio, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.

The Mussmann/Bruce Archive aims to explore the expanding relevance of Linda and Claudia’s work, to illuminate its artistic and sociopolitical significance, and to celebrate its historical location in experimental theater.

Key pieces of their work are profiled to illustrate the transformative breadth of Linda and Claudia’s technique and artistry.

This site is a living document, and will continue to grow as we unearth more materials.

1973 - Present

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Peggy Phelan, a paper presented following a performance of Civil War Chronicles IV: Mary Surratt

“Time, for Mussmann, is an immobile and cumbersome steel column, and space is this wonderfully slippery thing that moves… To predicate an entire theatrical enterprise on such angles produces the strange vertigo of Time and Space Limited. The theatre, in other words, investigates the moments at which time and space got turned around and time became misrepresented as a thing that moves, and space as that solid column.”