In order to celebrate their 40th anniversary on Monday night, Dance Theatre Workshop transformed their offices into a four-story performance space. Every 10 minutes from 5pm to 9pm a performance began somewhere in the building. No corner was unused, from the box office to the conference room. People lined up outside for the free event after the place filled to capacity (rumored to be 1,800 at one point).

The highlight of the evening was Beehive, a piece performed by Third Rail Projects and Productions in DTW’s tiny kitchen. Audiences crowded around, curious to see why a bee was standing in the doorway holding up a tape cassette recorder. What followed was clever, innovative and delightfully campy. Members of the troupe made cookies while wrapped in blue cellophane, donning bright blue beehive wigs and climbing all over the kitchen in a way that evoked synchronized swimming, with space-age lounge music playing in the background.