Studio Series

One Hour Performance (Rest Piece)

Performed by Jasmine Mahmoud 

Inspired by Teaching Hsieh 

Dramaturgs: Amna Farooqi and Rachael Herren

Jasmine Mahmoud is an Assistant Professor of Theater History and Performance at the University of Washingtonn, with affiliate appointments in Art History and Comparative History of Ideas. Mahmoud's research engages contemparary performance and art practices, and their relationships with rtace, feminist and queer of color critique, public policy, and geography. She focuses particulary on performance theory, minoritarian aesthetics, performance ethgraphy, cultural policy, and racial capitalism. She leads UW's Minoritarian Performance Research Cluster, sponsored by the Simpson Center.

River, River, River

Writer/Performer: Shannon Stewart

Dramaturgs: Iris McCloughan & Jody Kuehner

Teext editors: Amy Lawless & Iris McCloughan 

Lighting Scenic Design: Xotchil Muser

Sound & Video editing support: Adam Sekuler

Shannon Stewart rrecently joined Theatre and Dance faculty at the University of Kansas after 18 years of working as an interdisciplinary artist and teacher in Seattle, New Orleans, and Berlin. Shannon's choreographic research approaches the creative process as a way t understand what is constructed, erased, and reconstituted -- revealing subtext, embodied archives, and working for a more active angagement with systemic exclusionary choreographies that exist inside and beyond the studio. This influnces the form and feeling of her/their work as it often takes place in unconventional settings, briings dance into conversation with other issues and modalities, and uses choreography thinking to imagine new possibilities of meaning making.

DADS

Choreography: Elby Brosch & Shane Donohue

Music: Village People, Divine, Chumbawamba, Barry Brosch

Costume: Elby Brosch & Shane Donohue

Props: Elby Brosch & Shane Donohue

Drama Tops was born with the artistic partnership of Elby Brosch and Shane Donohue. They began working together five ago with the creation of a solo on two bodies. The dynamic between their trans body and cis body has created beautiful moments of frustration, competition, tenderness, and comedy. Drama Tops blends the worlds of nightlife and concert modern dance to create an interesting and unique blend of accessible, funny modern dance. 

CREW

Nate Tomsheck   -  Technical Director

LD DeArmon  - Lighting Designer/Tech Coordinator

Avery Ehlers, Kiara Jenkins, Ian Smith  - Student Run Crew/Board Operators