Day 2 - PRIDE | Be Fabulous | Dance & Performance Art

Celebrating our Queerness

We are transformative through movement and cascading through our memories are moments of dance. Be it your first spin or feeling so passionate about sound it just takes over your body.

These artists will remind you why we feel this way through movement. Come celebrate these Queer Artists as they share their works with us.

GABRIELE KEUSCH | @wyldyarrowpoetry

A radical Birth Sister/Doula, poet, and a conduit for the ancestors that walk with her. Her experimental play with loop magik and words create a ritualistic like Prayer that she hopes continues to Summon the emotions and energy that not only drive her but the collective. A radical Birth Sister/Doula, poet, and a conduit for the ancestors that walk with her. Her experimental play with loop magik and words create a ritualistic like Prayer that she hopes continues to Summon the emotions and energy that not only drive her but the collective. A radical Birth Sister/Doula, poet, and a conduit for the ancestors that walk with her. Her experimental play with loop magik and words create a ritualistic like Prayer that she hopes continues to Summon the emotions and energy that not only drive her but the collective.

Jess Pope and Amber McNew

www.instagram.com/thejpope/

www.instagram.com/mr.starrrman

Jess and Amber’s work finds its point of view through gender identity and feminism. They strive to lean into the full inter-sections of their experiences and embrace queerness as a disruptive and generative force, not just a predetermined identity. They embody this through dance, performance, and story-sharing, with the goal that the hierarchy between viewer/audience and performer will dissolve and that social connection and consciousness become part of the narrative. When the body is fully engaged with its most profound levels of construction, a performer is fully embodied by its identity and point of view.

Piece Description

Pagan Babies is adopted from the 1960s queer culture in Lexington, Kentucky. These colorful characters included Sweet Evening Breeze, Sue Mundy, Henry Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Rock Hudson. Along with Bob Morgan and Bradley Picklesimer. A & J use these pioneers, along with the inspiration of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, to connect the past to the present. They use irrational juxtapositions through performance to challenge the masculine/feminine relationship within themselves.