Do You Still Believe?

Do You Still Believe? is a work that depicts my personal relationship with religion and queerness. While it is a personal journey, it reflects shared queer experiences. I explore the parallels of the queer community and religion: if partnership is god, then the community is the church. How do we find each other in a world that has deemed us sinners, excluded? I utilize movement, text, and film to tell a story of interweaving characters and lovers. A diverse playlist of music takes on an important role by incorporating hymnals and operatic songs, in purposeful opposition of praising deities, and instead glorifying drag and gender fuckery through the lens of queer nightlife with dark wave and techno. Even if the viewer has not experienced the religious trauma the piece focuses on, they will be able to recognize themselves in the aftermath of that oppression–intimacy, mundanity, joy.

UPCOMING SHOWS

UPCOMING SHOWS

Vision Benefit

April 29th 2024

6:00-9:00pm

111 Second Ave

New York, NY 10003

Pride Showing

June 24th 2024

6:00pm show 7:00pm Q&A

111 Second Ave

New York, NY 10003

IHRAF

December 10th 2024

7:30pm

The Tank

312 W 36th St Fl 1

New York, NY 10018

Do You Still Believe? was created during the Pride Residency curated by WADE DANCE INC in collaboration with NYU Tisch School of Arts

Travesty

While wrestling with the restrictions of the contemporary dance world, trans and non-binary dancers from Katy Pyle's Ballez company trace their place in a lineage of drag and gender-play stretching out from the travesty productions of 1870s Paris. Access: Audio description, captions.