Perfomance | La MaMa's SQUIRTS: New Voices in Queer Performance

January 3–12, 2014

For two weeks, curator and host Dan Fishback rallies the brashest new voices of the queer stage for a peak into the future of underground, revolutionary queer art-making. Ranging from drag and cabaret to spoken word and theater, each of these young artists take cues from their predecessors while reinventing their forms through the singular weirdness of their own individual visions. Each night of SQUIRTS will also feature a guest legend – an established icon of the queer performance world. Join multiple generations of queer performers as we celebrate the legacy of downtown theatrics and the precocious audacity of the millennial mind.

Starring: Ariel “Speedwagon” Federow, Dane Terry, Kirya Traber, Man Meat Collective & Untitled Queen

Guests of Honor (on selected nights): Penny Arcade (Jan 3); Split Britches (Jan 4); Flotilla Debarge (Jan 5); Jack Waters & Peter Cramer (Jan 10); Susana Cook (Jan 11) and Arthur Aviles (Jan 12).

Featuring (on selected nights): Bryn Kelly (Jan 10); Connor Donahue & Carlo Maria (Jan 5); Dominic Bradley (Jan 12); Gabriel Sahyoun (Jan 11); Glittered & Mauled (Jan 12); Janani Balasubramanian (Jan 4); Juliana Huxtable (Jan 10); Kia LaBeija (Jan 3); Leo Gugu (Jan 4); Merrie Cherry (Jan 5); Red Durkin (Jan 11) and Stephen Ira (Jan 3).

The Helix Queer Performance Network is a collaboration between La MaMa E.T.C., BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics www.helixqpn.org

Video: Victor Bautista