Dance Place is excited to host and present Gaze, a 5-day virtual festival highlighting local and national LGBTQIA+ artists and companies.
Featuring performances from Creep Cuts and jumatatu m. poe and Donte Beachem and virtual workshops as part of Excessive Realness, a queer-normative dance intensive, this full week event will celebrate and honor queer identities and expression.
Keep reading below for the full Excessive Realness intensive and performance & event schedule!
Excessive Realness Class Schedule
Excessive Realness is a queer-normative dance intensive geared toward LGBTQIA+ people who consider themselves dancers or use dance as a tool for their own artistic and personal practice. This intensive provides a platform for participants to channel their own artistic practices, personal expression, and sociopolitical engagement through dance, performance, queerness, and the many other intersecting identities that people within these communities hold.
Wednesday, June 16 through Sunday, June 20 — virtual classes (learn more and register here)
Wednesday, June 16th
3-4:30pm EST — Dancing Testimony with Al Evangelista
7-8:30pm EST — Groove Theory with Krystal Leniece Collins
Thursday, June 17th
1-2:30pm EST — Holding Histories, Moving Bodies with Matthew Cumbie
7-8:30pm EST — Trans/Eros: A Queer Approach to Bodies in Crisis with Ya-Ya Fairley
Friday, June 18th
3-4:30pm EST — Dancing Testimony with Al Evangelista
Saturday, June 19th
1-2:30pm EST — Holding Histories, Moving Bodies with Matthew Cumbie
5-6:30pm EST — Trans/Eros: A Queer Approach to Bodies in Crisis with Ya-Ya Fairley
Sunday, June 20th
Performance & Event Schedule
All performances and events are virtual.
Wednesday, June 16th at 5pm EST — jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham
Live streamed on danceplace.org
This Is an Invitation is the latest project in jumatatu m. poe and Jermone Donte Beacham’s Let ‘im Move You decade-spanning series of performance and installation projects. Invitation juggles between two choreographed duets, both performed and auto-documented by the respective pairs, each framing self and environment as a means to create the terms for being seen.
Thursday, June 17th at 5pm EST — Creep Cuts*
Live streamed on danceplace.org
CREEP CUTS IN FREEZE RESPONSE! follows agitprop surrealists and anti-fascist clowns Mz. Asa Metric and Mqr En Between (that’s us) as we accidentally present an evening of genre-queer cabaret. Join us as we careen between dada drag, original electronic music, gay ass social media diatribes and malfunctioning sketch comedy to try and make sense of our nervous, overactive imagination.
Friday, June 18th at 5pm EST — A Conversation with Gaze Artists
Join via Zoom Webinar
Join artists involved with Dance Place’s Gaze festival for an informal dialogue. Artists include: Scotty Hardwig, Matthew Cumbie, Ya-Ya Fairley, jumatatu m. poe, Jermone Donte Beacham, and Mz. Asa Metric. Community members are welcome to join the conversation!
Saturday, June 19th at 7pm EST — The SPILL by Excessive Realness**
Join via Zoom Webinar
The SPILL features faculty of Excessive Realness: LGBTQIA+ artists from around the country. The performance celebrates the innumerable imaginations, identities, and experiences that exemplify queerness and queer dance.
*Content Warning: This presentation includes brief nudity, extensive adult language and themes.
**Content Warning: This presentation includes semi-nudity.
Header photo by Hannah Larson.
Dance Place’s Gaze Festival is supported by generous grant funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Tom Lane Fund.
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