Articles tagged ‘queer’

Burlesque performers wearing black on a bright stage with bubbles floating around.

DIY Dance

Erin Kilmurray, a Chicago-based dance artist who is best known for the queer punk dance and variety performance project The Fly Honey Show, describes the drive behind the DIY (do-it-yourself) aesthetic found throughout her work.

Bobby bends one knee and swings the other leg behind them, twisting to look backward. They are wearing black pants and a gray open jacket. The background is orange.

Street Dancer Bobby “Pocket” Horner Steps Back from Broadway

Bonnie Eissner profiles Bobby “Pocket” Horner, a street-dancer turned Broadway star who asks difficult and important questions about the nature of working on Broadway.

VERA! is pictured from the side onstage leaning back with open arms in a red dress with gold bangles. Their hair hangs behind them and a beard is drawn on their chin.

Queering Cultural Forms

Snowflake Calvert describes Queering Cultural Forms, a program of the Queering Dance Festival that provides a platform where traditional cultural dances are explored and enriched through a queer lens.

Three dancers are on a wood floor. One is laying down holding up a tennis ball. Another is kneeling and holding a tennis ball over their lowered head. A third is sitting cross legged and hunched over.

Revisiting Invisible Labor

Thomas Choinacky, a queer interdisciplinary artist in Philadelphia, discusses their piece “Forehand Down the Line,” which highlights the invisible labor and queer movement of ball people in tennis.

Rogelio sits on stage in a tank top and looks upward with a water bottle to his chest.

Dancing In-Between: Stories from a Queer Latinx Immigrant Artist

Choreographer Rogelio Lopez discusses his piece “Entre Despierto y Dormido,” a celebration of queer becoming and the cultural traditions he’s reclaiming as an immigrant from Mexico.