Witching Hour passes on sale

IOWA CITY — Witching Hour season is ready to cast a different kind of spell this year.

The Englert Theatre’s annual festival still will bring innovative and imaginative artists to engage with Iowa City audiences. But this time, Witching Hour is transforming into a series of five events throughout the fall.

From dancers to multi-instrumentalists, the lineup will bring groundbreaking perspectives to the artistic process. Series passes are on sale at ci.ovationtix.com/36399/store/packages. Cost is $75 for a general pass, $65 for a Member pass and $40 for a student pass. Single admission tickets also are available for each event.

Debit: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 17 at The James Theater, 213 N. Gilbert St., Iowa City; series pass or single tickets, $10 to $20, at englert.org/events/

A producer, DJ, and international radio host, Debit relocated to New York in 2015 from Monterrey, Mexico, and has become an activate figure in the latino Diasporas musical aesthetics and circuits. Ranging from dance to ambient music and with a clear and deconstructive approach, she works with blends of Latino and club beats, dramatic accents, baroque synths and polymorphous textures.

Chromic Duo: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21, The James Theater; series pass or single tickets, $10 to $20, englert.org/events/

Lucy Yao and Dorothy Chan, grand prize-winners at the Young Classical Artists Trust and Concert Artists Guild, combine classical music, toy piano and electronics into genre-fluid performances and installations. They compose sound worlds inspired by the multitudes as third culture kids discovering their voice within the vast Asian American diaspora.

Hrishikesh Hirway and Jenny Owen Youngs: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, Englert Theatre, 221 E Washington St., Iowa City; series pass or $10 to $20, englert.org/events/

Hirway, a musician and podcast creator, is the host and creator of “Song Exploder,” an award-winning podcast and Netflix original television series, where musicians break down the creative process behind their songs. Youngs, a singer/songwriter, also hosts two podcasts, “Buffering the Vampire Slayer” and “Veronica Mars Investigations.”

Another Stage of Staging Ourselves: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 29, Englert Theatre; series pass or $10 to $20, englert.org/events/

Jennifer Kayle’s dance projects often wonder about social change, usually with optimism and pessimism in a clash of wills. Brady Van Patten is a Chicago-based physical theater artist who plays in the forms of dance, clown, choreography and improvisation.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, Englert Theatre; $20 to $47.50, englert.org/events/

The band released a string of albums from 1997 to 2002 widely recognized as redefining what protest music can be, where longform instrumental chamber rock compositions of immense feeling and power serve as soundtracks to late capitalist alienation and resistance.