Sep 15-17, 7:30pm; Sep 18, 6pm
Joe Goode Performance Group (JGPG) presents the second bi-annual GUSH Festival, with side-by-side premieres of new works by Joe Goode Performance Group, bronte velez, and Gizeh Muniz-Vengel & Ernesto Peart Falcon. Presented at the Joe Goode Annex (located in Project Artaud in SF's Mission District), GUSH is a fresh performance platform featuring new and expansive artistic voices with ripe artistic dialogue. This year's GUSH artists look at intergenerational queer lineage (JGPG), the body as a sacred home and sensual organism (Muniz-Vengel & Falcon), and black liminality and levity (velez). GUSH seeks to burst performance bubbles through conversation, interaction and innovative artists sharing their works in proximity.
-bronte velez's SPIN treadles through a lineage of the ways black folks spin and get spun out. Utilizing live DJ'ing, video and dance - the work is a collage of black spinning: from enslaved women spinning yarn for 20 hours a day, to death drops at queer balls, to praise and worship in black baptist churches...to car doughnuts, the earth orbiting, braiding hair, zangbeto, pole dancing, spiders spinning webs.
-Gizeh Muniz Vengel & Ernesto Peart Falcon share a new work titled viaje a la semilla, a duet questioning cultural identity, colonization and blurred ancestral lineages. By "un-naming" the body as a human body, they deepen their understanding of the people and communities here before.
-Joe Goode Performance Group's premiere, I Understand: Queer exchange across generations, is a collaborative project by three longtime JGPG artists: Gabriele Christian, Molly Katzman and artistic director, Joe Goode. The piece poses the questions: How does queerness as an identity shift as we age? Three duets feature each collaborator's unique partnership with a guest queer elder or youth performer.
Event ADA compliant / fully accessible. Thu, Fri, Sat includes ASL Interpretation (Deaf/HOH). Fri, Sat offers Audio Description (Blind/Low Vision).
$15-75.