In continued commitment of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities, Dance Place celebrates Black Futures and Living Month by partnering with the BlackLight Summit. BlackLight seeks to be a spark to ignite daring innovation and to reveal the creativity in the dance ecosystem. Working in collaboration Dance Place and BlackLight, has curated an ecstatic evening of queer BIPOC performance. 

As part of this experience, MX Oops [NONFATAL_ERROR] presents UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL, an multimedia performance and party that captures the essence of queer nightlife culture. Through vibrant aesthetics and thought-provoking storytelling, it sheds light on how cognitive bias unites us all. 

Returning home is afterGLOW, a thrilling glitter-filled, wig-pulling, lip-syncing, drag celebration produced by haus of bambi.  afterGLOW boldly affirms that the future is Black, queer, and aboustely fabulous – happening right here and now! 

UnFiNiShEd aNiMaL is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Funds Project co-commissioned by New York Live Arts, Dance Place, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, 651 Arts, and NPN. The Creation & Development Funds are supported by the Doris Duke Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.

This work is supported by the Dance Place Co-Presentation Series.