PAST PERFORMANCES

SPRING 2024

  • SHA CREATIVE OUTLET

  • SPLIT BILL #42

  • SYNTHESIS

  • AUGUST & CO.

  • JULIA ANTINOZZI

  • DOMINICA GREENE

  • CHRISTIAN WARNER

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FALL 2023

SPRING 2023

  • Flyer depicting the headshots of all the Synthesis artists

    SYNTHESIS

    a theatrical variety show presenting nightlife performers in the queer community and celebrating an array of disciplines and identities.

    Guest Curated by Miz Jade

    MARCH 17 & 18
    8pm

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  • An image that is split in half. One side is of Andrea Ward under water and the other of Hunter Sturgis in a field.

    SPLIT BILL #39

    Featuring…
    Andrea Ward
    Hunter Sturgis

    MARCH 30 & 31
    8pm

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  • Image of Joan Laage curled up on her side and costumed in a red dress, a white kimono with gold, black and red painted designs draped over her body on a beige wooden floor.

    JOAN LAAGE/KOGUT BUTOH with VANGELINE THEATER

    APRIL 6-8
    8pm

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  • Image of Kimiko Tanabe, a mixed-race Japanese American female, squatting in a blue yukata with holding onto her hair braided around barbed wire like horns on top of her head.

    KIMIKO TANABE

    APRIL 13-15
    8pm

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  • Two images next to each other. One of Beatriz Castro and the other of Effy Grey

    SPLIT BILL #40

    Featuring…
    Beatriz Castro
    Effy Grey

    APRIL 27 & 28, 2023
    8PM

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  • headshots of testu collective featuring Serena Stucke and Dan Tesene, nava dunkelman, tyrone bevans and yoko murakami

    TESTU COLLECTIVE + YOKO MURAKAMI

    MAY 11-13
    8PM

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  • Tushrik and TT facing profile interlocking hands and looking towards the horizon

    TUSHRIK FREDERICKS

    JUNE 1 & 2
    8PM

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  • A headshot of Hilary Brown-Istrefi, with her gaze directed downward. She is wearing a champagne-colored raincoat, her dark afro hair visible from beneath its hood.

    2023 RESIDENT ARTIST: HILARY BROWN-ISTREFI

    JUNE 9 & 10, 2023
    8PM

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  • An invitation to The Boof Quadrille, collaged over with various vintage photographs, etchings and drawings of couples dancing, gossiping, and posing

    HARD/FEMME DANCES

    JUNE 22 & 23
    8PM

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FALL 2022

  • Beyond the Black Box Logo

    Beyond the Black Box

    SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

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  • Evik, on the ground in a studio, reaches upward with one hand. The image is distorted, as if being displayed on a broken TV screen.

    Boy Friday

    SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 1, 2022

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  • Three dancers in long black dresses lying on the floor in a triangular shape, as if they were sleeping.

    Vangeline Theater

    OCTOBER 6-8, 2022

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  • Image of two dancers in movement.

    Kayla Farrish

    OCTOBER 25, 2022
    NOVEMBER 1, 2022
    NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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  • one person at center looking into camera, flanked by two more people holding red feather fans aloft. they all wear red, the centered person has a fur draped over them and makes a dramatic face.

    2nd Best Dance Company

    NOVEMBER 11 & 12, 2022

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  • Image of Zoe submerged in blue-green water.

    Zoe Rabinowitz & Galen Bremer

    NOVEMBER 17 & 18, 2022

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  • graphic that reads "Julia Antinozzi, Jendaya Dash"

    SPLIT BILL #38

    DECEMBER 1 & 2, 2022

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  • A conga line of dancers under a multi-colored headline "Hard/Femme Dances and Triskelion Arts Present: A Night at The "Joyce"

    Nightlife Skinshow: Desperate 4 Attention (You Won’t Last 5 Seconds!)

    DECEMBER 8 & 9, 2022

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SPRING 2022

2022 RESIDENT ARTIST
NORA ALAMI

JUNE 9-11, 2022

SPLIT BILL #37

Spare/Change Dance Collective
Indigo Sparks
Justin Bass

JUNE 2-4, 2022

AMINAH IBRAHIM

MAY 19 & 20, 2022

NVA & GUESTS

APRIL 21-23, 2022

MOVING LANDSCAPES

Guest Curation by Erick Montes

Arantxa Araujo & Sara Kostić
Geraldine Cardiel
Miriam Parker

APRIL 14-16, 2022

SPLIT BILL #37

Quaba V. Ernest/ Venza Dance
Tushrik Fredericks

MARCH 24 & 25, 2022

SYNTHESIS

Guest Curated by Miz Jade

MARCH 11 & 12, 2022

J’ROYCE JATA

FEBRUARY 24 & 25, 2022

FALL 2022

Image of 5 people standing clumped together. Photo is waist up, they all look out past the camera and scream. They were blue and pink pajama sets in front of a grey speckled background.

2ND BEST DANCE COMPANY

DECEMBER 9-11, 2021

White bold text on a black background that reads Maxi Hawkeye Canion, Breaktime , Sha Creative Outlet

SPLIT BILL # 35

DECEMBER 2-4, 2021

JAMAL JACKSON DANCE COMPANY

NOVEMBER 11-13, 2021

Image of Vangeline in a yellow dress on stage in ETERNITY 123. Her back turned away from the camera with both arms behind her head. Photo by Bryan Kwon.

VANGELINE

OCTOBER 27-30, 2021

Photo of bold black text on a white background that reads "STAGE DIVE +"

STAGE DIVE +

OCTOBER 14, 2021

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CHANEL STONE

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

SUMMER 2021

IN THE BACKYARD

image of a mirrored image with distorted reflections. Metallic and black spokes of mylar paper jut out from the left side of the image. A hardly detectable face hides between the spokes and blends-in with the blurred shapes and colors that comprise …

ARIEL LEMBECK

SEPTEMBER 25 & 26, 2021

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YOKO MURAKAMI + TESTU COLLECTIVE

AUGUST 12-14, 2021

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DORCHEL HAQQ + HAKEEM OLAYINKA

JULY 23 & 24, 2021

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JENNIFER NUGENT

JULY 14 & 15, 2021

MORGAN BOBROW-WILLIAMS

JUNE 3 &4, 2021

OUR 2021 VIRTUAL PLATFORM: THE TRISK ZINE