off the ground
witness innovative ideas take flight through an experimental evening that celebrates risk-taking on stage!
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“BOLD, queer and unapologetic”
“Beautiful community”
“This country needs spaces like these to foster FREEDOM”
“joy, togetherness and spirit”
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PAST PERFORMERS
Devika Bilimoria
Usi - Usi (Tamil for needle) in Bharatanatyam dance is an offbeat rhythmic shift—unexpected, syncopated, and precise. Typically used to create contrast and maintain rhythmic complexity, it interrupts the expected flow, offering anticipation. This performance stretches Usi beyond a fleeting moment into an extended 20-minute duration, suspending resolution.
Billy Gigurtsis
Pas De Une - "Pas de Une" is an interdisciplinary piece investigating the search space between form, and deform. The work seeks to understand how traditional movement vocabularies, such as ballet, can be used as the basis for emergent movement patterns. This will be navigated through contrasting temporalities, between crip time and city life. Pas de Une seeks to teach, to learn, and to reveal the precise point where control encounters decay, and where limitation transforms into possibility.
Bard the Beholder
Altar - ALTAR is a drag solo show about transitioning as a South-East Asian trans-masculine person. Present leads the story, sharing anecdotes about his love life with his lover Past and interrogating his “man-made masculinity”. However, when Past doesn’t turn up for their ceremony, Present reflects on his choice between embracing his ethnicity and the politics of "passing".
Néa Ishana Ranganathan
I drink the salt water to get sick - A call to displaced childhoods, burnt books and divided waters. A call to a tiger with a pen and a gun. This work is the extension of a research and archival text written and documented by Néa exploring how past, present and future Tamil artists and academics articulate the longing for homeland in opposition to the eradication of their language and people. Néa embodies the tiger (The Liberation Tigresses of Tamil Eelam), the warrior, and poet through queering, manipulating, and rooting in substances and sounds.
