The Arts Labs project is designed to identify and explore new frontiers of artistic collaboration across a range of media, technologies, and scales. Now in its second phase at the Neubauer Collegium, the project is comprised of five discrete labs: an Opera Lab devoted to preparing the new production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in 2028-30, examining the tetralogy’s production history and aesthetic politics (on hiatus during the 2025–2026 academic year); a Motion Theory Lab studying theories and practices of embodiment in dance through a variety of conceptual perspectives and choreographic workshops; the Embodied Adaptation Lab, a partnership with Lucky Plush Productions to create a dance-theater production inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s The Great God Brown (FACING); the Un-Musical Lab, exploring the dissolution and recomposition of a family told through the dissolution and recomposition of musical theater form; the New Directions in Contemporary Publishing Lab, which convenes editors and writers from distinguished literary publications to collaborate on identifying emerging futures for translation and publishing; and an Arts Labs seminar, which meets regularly to workshop the concepts undergirding the larger initiative.