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Aug 3, 2024, 2:27:13 PM8/3/24

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In a way it was theatre. Women in costumes, all looking beautiful. Everyone looking at the portraits, finding themselves and women they knew. Servers circulating with trays of drinks and finger food. Good finger food.

I spent a few minutes talking with Liz Pead, a Toronto artist. She paints with hockey equipment. It sounds strange but I looked at her website and her work is beautiful, very Group of Seven. Her son is beautiful too, and very blase about the gala.

Programs at Shōchiku theatres consist of a late morning and an early evening show of about four hours each, offering a balance of dance pieces (shosagoto), excerpted highlight acts from popular traditional plays, and shorter one- or two-act shin (new) kabuki.

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I needed to get that out first. Now, on to the roundup! This edition of Queer Stages is all about femmes, women, TGNC and non-binary theatre and theatre artists including Laura Jane Grace, Our Lady J, The Kilroys, and lesbian bars.

The Musical Theater Factory honored Transgender Day of Visiblity this year with a IN(Visibility), a concert performed solely by trans and GNC people to celebrate the lives and work of trans people worldwide. The one night only performance featured performers Ianne Fields Stewart, L Morgan Lee, Samy Nour Younes, and Maybe Burke performing work by trans artists including amon Boylan, Laura Jane Grace, Our Lady J, Orion Johnstone, Mika Kauffman, and William Shishmanian.

Do you know The Kilroys? This awesome list documents new plays by women and transgender playwrights and tracks playwright parity in US theatres. WHYY reported on the impact the undertaking has had, featuring playwrights MJ Kaufman and Whiting Award winner Lauren Yee.

On the other side of the pond, They, Them, We, Us: A Queerstory opened in London. The devised piece is the result of testimony from and collaboration with LGBTQ+ activists and performers whose careers have spanned the past 50 years.

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As well known for their infamous feuding as for their ground-breaking punk rock work, Violent Femmes have no trouble showing us why they are one of the best acts in punk as they set off on tour across America once again. Don't miss your chance to see these absolute icons of 90s rock, live!

Formed in 1980, The Violent Femmes were hailed as the most inventive and original band of the decade of decadence thanks to a pioneering independent spirit and a heady blend of folk, punk, spirituality and sarcasm. Whilst they did not make a commercial impression at the time, they became the chosen soundtrack for angsty teens everywhere thanks to irascibly intelligent anthems 'Blister In The Sun', 'Kiss Off' and 'Gone Daddy Gone'. In 2016 they released their ninth studio album 'We Can Do Anything' followed by the 2017 release of 2 Mics & the Truth: Unplugged & Unhinged in America, which compiled newly recorded live performances.

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On a side street off of the Opra plaza, another overlooked group who faces reduced salaries and frequent violence also gathered in an attempt to be seen. Over the three days of the Paris des Femmes theatre festival, nine women premiered staged readings of their original short plays and monologues. In an interview, festival director Anne Rotenberg stated that works by women represent only 21 percent of plays produced in French theatres. She explained that the theatre world in France is still a very masculine environment, so culturally many women writers do not imagine playwriting and more easily gravitate toward writing novels. In an effort to encourage women to write for the stage, in 2012, Rotenberg, also a theatre director, founded the festival with journalist Michle Fitoussi and writer/actor Vronique Olmi. They invite women, often novelists, to write original plays on a preselected theme in an effort to develop new playwrights and raise awareness of their work.

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We create original contemporary dance theater at the intersection of artistic excellence and social justice. Our work strives to dismantle hierarchies and to build liberation, inspired by the lives and dreams of BIPOC women and femmes around the globe. We will celebrate our 20th season in 2025.

In creating an artistic community of BIPOC women, womxn, and femmes who dance together with intention toward a mission of social justice choreography, we dance as a methodology of dismantling the hierarchies of race, gender, caste, class, sexuality, nationality, ability, and other identifiers that have come to be entrenched in mainstream culture. We chisel our aesthetic with granular attention because we must uphold multiple, layered, intersecting stories of our communities and those we hold sacred, through the articulation of our spines and the energetic impulses of our limbic extremities.

We are committed to the broader movement of undoing the violences of racism, casteism, white supremacy, toxic masculinity, Empire, colonization, slavery, genocide, and other aggressions through the power and poetry of our dancing.

We create original dance theater, drawing on social justice themes inspired by the lives and dreams of BIPOC women, womxn, and femmes from around the globe. In dancing stories where the struggles, triumphs, and transformations of our communities occupy the center, we empower artistic voices, shift the landscape of mainstream culture, build relationships, and move toward equity and beauty.

Our practice includes (1) devised concert stage productions; (2) workshops, classes, and dialogues with people from refugee, immigrant, Indigenous, Black, and of color communities, with particular focus on building solidarities and healing; and (3) participatory performances that invite audiences to embody possibilities of moving together, negotiating space, finding rhythm, and sharing humanity with people they might not know. With these three streams, we grow deep local roots with wide-reaching branches.

We have premiered one original work with commissioned score annually since 2005. Each work results from the collaborative efforts of our artistic director, company artists, and guest artists who work in the realms of music and sound composition, spoken word, and lighting, scenic, and costume design.

We have performed and conducted residencies on tour in 11 states and the District of Columbia. Internationally, we have performed at the Harare International Arts Festival, Zimbabwe; National Academy for Performing Arts, Trinidad; Bethlehem International Performing Arts Festival, Palestinian Territories; Aavejak Aavaaz Festival, Pragiyoti International Dance Festival, and Natya Ballet Dance Festival, all in India; Ocean Dance Festival, Bangladesh; and the Crossing Boundaries Festival, Ethiopia, supported by the U.S. State Department.

We began as a community-based ensemble in 2004, when Artistic Director Ananya Chatterjea called together Black, Indigenous, and women and femmes of color who shared experiences of being on the outside of American concert dance and interests in creating socially relevant art.

In June 2018, we acquired our first facility, located on University Avenue in St. Paul at the confluence of the Rondo, Little Mekong, and Little Africa neighborhoods. We named our facility the Shawngram Institute for Performance & Social Justice. From there, we rehearse, conduct classes and workshops, and host a variety of community activities.

We seek a paradigm shift in the mainstream dance world. As a professional ensemble of BIPOC women/femme artists who believe in the transformative power of contemporary dance theatre and identify as cultural activists, we seek to collectively embody an innovative contemporary transnational feminist aesthetic that realizes Black and brown liberatory story-arcs.