Residency showing at CounterPulse! And other September happenings
Hi all,
A new work, two fundraisers, and a drag show... Here's where to find me this month!
ON THE FLOOR AT COUNTERPULSE
I am so pleased to invite you to a residency showing of On the Floor, a new piece made in collaboration with Théophylle Dcx. We have been working on the piece through the Edge residency at CounterPulse, and we get the chance to perform on Sept. 4, 5, 12, and 13 as part of this year's CounterPulse Festival.
On the Floor results from our shared choreographic research into the queer legacies carried by the evolution of "disco" into "dance music" in the 1980s. For us, this story is a local one, shaped by San Francisco icons like Sylvester and Patrick Cowley and clubs like the Trocadero Transfer and the I-Beam. 1978 to 1988 was a period of musical innovation marked by remarkable progress in studio technologies, the spread of all-night discos, and the birth of new subcultures formed around dancing and drugs.
Black, Latinx, and queer dancers and DJs in cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York were at the center of these musical shifts. Those same communities would, of course, also find themselves at the center of the AIDS crisis in that same decade. Our duet tracks our own affective attachment to the queer legacies of this time period. In reaching across time, we fall in line with a four-on-the-floor rhythm stemming not only from dance music, but also from the varied 21st century queer pharmaceutical regimens that follow in the wake of the AIDS crisis as well as expanded access to gender-affirming care. The duet asks us—and you, the audience—to trip out on history, grief, desire, discipline, compliance, and release.
I hope those of you who are in the Bay Area can join us for this residency showing! Tickets ($15-35, NOTAFLOF) are available on the CounterPulse website, and we are on a double bill with the wonderful Zoe and Rose Huey's new piece Trashflower. Shows are on Thursday, Sept. 4, Friday, Sept. 5, and Friday, Sept. 12 at 8 pm as well as Saturday, Sept. 13 at 2 pm. (The rest of the programming in this year's CounterPulse Festival is also not to miss!)
TWO FUNDRAISERS AND A DRAG SHOW...
In case you missed my Lip-sync-a-thon at the Stud in June, I'm bringing back the endurance lip-sync format! Better start warming my jaw up now... I'll be installed in one of the rooms at 500 Capp on Saturday, September 6, lip-synching for my life. It's all part of 500 Capp, Et al., and Slash's Fall Invitational fundraiser. Tickets and more info here.
Speaking of lip-synching, I'll be (as usual) at Aunt Charlie's for the second Tuesday of the month, co-hosting and performing at Angels on Tuesday, September 9. $5 at the door as always, from 9 pm till last call.
And last but not least, I'm honored to be performing at Gravity's 25th Anniversary Gala on Tuesday, September 16 at Southern Exposure! Tickets and more info here.
Well, that's all for now. Hope to see you here, there, or somewhere else this month.
Maria