The International Human Rights Art Festival: Pride Residency and Performance by WADE Dance

Tuesday, December 10th @ 7:00pm

Featuring:

WAITING / POINTING
presented by Gesture Theater

WAITING / POINTING is about gesture and queer time. Complete with clowning, expressive masks, linguistic lessons, TERF speeches, on-hold waiting music, and big suits, this ensemble piece is a testament to trans futurity and the limits of language. POINTING: towards, away from, through, and beyond gender. WAITING: in the words of Andrea Long Chu, “to admit that … “transsexual is not identity but desire is to admit just how much of transition takes place in the waiting room of wanting things.”

Lou Sydel
Theo Duclo
Lulu Munteanu
Erika Michelle Davis
Campbell Ives

Pools presented by John Trunfio

Music created by AËLÍN
Dancers: Jonathan Colafrancesco, Henry Leef, and Teryn Trent

Pools centers around the complex relationship between communal belonging and individual identity.

Fragility Cycle presented by Donald Lee

Do You Still Believe presented by Noel Olson

Peet Alfred Elizalde (they/them - dancer)
Jules Assue (they/them - dancer)
Ava Eriksen-Oertle (they/them - dancer)
Nyah Malon (they/she - dancer)
Isa Segall (she/they - dancer)

Do You Still Believe? explores 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? This work tells a story of interweaving characters and lovers that live in a world that exists in the liminal space between the club and the church. What takes place throughout the hours of Saturday’s night into Sunday’s morning–intimacy, exuberance, reverence.