SYNTHESIS, A GUEST CURATION BY MIZ JADE RETURNS TO TRISK
For Immediate Release
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
BROOKLYN, NY -- Triskelion Arts is thrilled to present Synthesis, a Guest Curation by Miz Jade, happening March 14 & 15 at 8PM! Synthesis is a theatrical variety show presenting nightlife performers in the queer community and celebrating an array of disciplines and identities. This incredible evening of music, drag, and burlesque carves out space for traditionally marginalized performers to nurture and grow their craft. Synthesis aims to allow artists to present their work in an elevated environment with more technical support, enabling a grander vision to come to life.
This years curation features a fantastic cast of artists, with performances by Mercy Masala, Qhrist Almighty, Mariyea, God Complex, Kekoa, Untitled Queen, and Miz Jade, with lighting design by Connor Sale. Tickets are on sale now, and at the box office March 14 & 15 at 7:30PM.
TICKETS
EARLY BIRD:
$50 🌟 SUPPORTER / $30 SUPERFAN / $22 EARLY BIRD / $17 HEARTS for Queer Trans BIPOC
AT-THE-DOOR:
50 🌟 SUPPORTER / $30 SUPERFAN / $26 AT-THE-DOOR / $17 HEARTS for Queer Trans BIPOC
What's Behind Our Ticketing Tiers?
We are thrilled to launch our new tiered ticketing, crafted to prioritize maximum compensation for our incredible artists, fair wages for our production team, and inclusive ticket prices for all our performances. This structure also addresses the financial challenges of producing live performances in NYC by aligning ticket costs more closely with the actual, unsubsidized value of each seat. Our ticket options now range from $17 to $50. Regardless of the ticket price, every attendee will enjoy the same magical experience.
Triskelion Arts, lovingly referred to as Trisk, is a nonprofit organization, live performance venue, and rehearsal space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, offering NYC-based dance and movement artists high-quality, sustainable opportunities to create and present work. Trisk partners with artists creating trailblazing work that broadens the cultural dialogue and elevates its community’s many voices and perspectives. Trisk is a home for artists and audiences to connect, to make art happen, to make magic. Trisk presents artists practicing, crafting, mining, experimenting, speaking up, and speaking out.
Trisk is made possible with generous support from our funders: The Howard Gilman Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, NYS Assembly Member Emily Gallagher, NYC Council Member Lincoln Restler, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation For Dance and Emma Sheafer Charitable Trust.
https://www.triskelionarts.org/spring-performances-2025/synthesis
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MIZ JADE is a Black-Trans Gender Fluid Drag performer, event host, and professional dancer who’s here to steal your heart and your spotlight. Known for her teaching, activism, and a wit so sharp it could cut glass, she’s guaranteed to leave you gagging and ready to party. Miz Jade is a NYC sensation, often described as fierce, sensual, sophisticated, and full of surprises.
After dabbling in various art forms, Jade zeroed in on her true loves: performance and education. She honed her dance skills at the prestigious Conservatory of Dance at SUNY Purchase and continues to sharpen her craft through endless workshops and intensives. As an interdisciplinary artist, she effortlessly blends her dance background with her nightlife antics, creating a performance style that’s truly one-of-a-kind.
While chasing her BFA in Dance, Miz Jade burst onto the New York nightlife scene, dazzling crowds by night and acing her classes by day. She moved to Brooklyn in 2012, cementing her status as one of NYC’s top entertainers. Competitions like So You Think You Can Drag, Little Miss Mierce, and MRS BK have only added to her trophy shelf and her ever-growing list of gigs.
Miz Jade has rubbed elbows and shared stages with the likes of Thorgy Thor, Sasha Velour, and Bob The Drag Queen. In 2019, she set sail on Ke$ha’s “Weird and Wonderful Rainbow Ride” and debuted in the drag opera, Chimera, alongside drag royalty Alexis Michelle and Desmond is Amazing. She even got a spotlight in Revry’s documentary series, Queens of Kings, which showcased her seamless dance and drag duality.
A passionate advocate, Miz Jade is a proud reader for Drag Story Hour, inspiring children with her fabulousness and promoting a message of inclusivity and diversity. She’s also the dazzling face of ‘The Real Ms Information,’ a national campaign with Gay Men’s Health Crisis and FCB Health Network, championing COVID vaccination awareness in the LGBTQ+ community.
With nominations for ‘Best Dance Performer’ at the Glam Awards and ‘Queen Of The Year’ and ‘Best Performer’ at the Brooklyn Nightlife Awards, Miz Jade is not just a performer; she’s a force of nature. Catch her if you can—she’s always a step ahead and ready to turn any event into an unforgettable spectacle.
@MizJade_Davon
MERCY MASALA
Mercy Masala is a fusion dancer combining elements of vogue, bollywood, and traditional South Indian dance in their burlesque style. When Mercy is not performing, they are a full time clinical social worker, published researcher/writer, and currently work as a crisis counselor serving folks who struggle with serious addiction, housing, and mental health issues. Mercy is one out of three queer South Asian burlesque performers in all of NYC AND NJ. They hope to inspire other South Asian artists to follow their creative bliss, no matter what they may be.
@mercy_masala
QHRIST ALMIGHTY
QHRIST ALMIGHTY is a new emotion from Brooklyn, New York. She started performing at liberal arts college SUNY Purchase (many such cases). She is the co-creator, co-producer, and co-hostess of STR8 TO DVD, one of Brooklyn’s longest-running drag variety shows. She loves the Pet Shop Boys, standing very still, knowing her lyrics, and the color orange.
@qhristalmighty
MARIYEA
Mariyea, is a Brooklyn based actress, performer, teacher and producer award-winning nightlife entertainer. Mariyea is the cohost of a podcast entitled “Cliffhangers” with Julie J Awarded best podcast through the NYC Nightlife Glam Awards, it is available for streaming through Apple Podcasts and Spotify. In addition to her performance work, Mariyea has taught as an adjunct professor at The City College of New York and classes at NYU Tisch. Follow Mariyea on Instagram: @mariyeaaaa for further updates
@mariyeaaaa
GOD COMPLEX
God Complex is a director, choreographer, writer, and drag performer who forcibly holds joy, faggotry, and the abyss in the same hand. In performance, he is interested in shifting the atmosphere in a room for a few moments at a time. As a director, God Complex builds maximalist, cinematic, and highly transgender worlds that blend installation art, environmental theater, and extraordinary drag.
@g0d.c0mplex
UNTITLED QUEEN
Untitled Queen is a Boricua / Filipinx drag artist who tells stories through performance, poetry, and sculpture.
@untitledqueen
KEKOA
Kekoa is a drag performer currently based in Brooklyn New York. With a background in performance art and design, Kekoa has been cultivating unique experiences through their performances and encourages intentionality and vision in a performance. Bridging the joys and fun of a traditional drag performance yet being able to either showcase technique and skill or vision in execution.
@kekoais
CONNOR SALE is a Brooklyn-based Lighting Designer and the Resident Lighting Designer of Triskelion Arts. Recent collaborations include: to begin with no end; ENUF; The Suite; The Dybbuk Part Two, or Still Between Two Worlds (Triskelion Arts), Das Ersatz (The Brick), thegarden.exc (Judson Memorial Church), This is How We Remember (Triskelion Arts, Philly Fringe), But, Soft + What Light (PAGEANT), the body || dust (Gibney), Earth Temple (with Nocturnal Medicine at SMUSH Gallery), and Sea Change (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago). He tours internationally with Akram Khan’s Gigenis and with the production of Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring that Sadler's Wells and École des Sables are producing. He’s interested in using the temporary nature of light to make people more active in space. More of his work can be found at connorsale.com and at @connorsalelight.