Friday May 17
6:30 PM
DoubleTake
Meagan Bertelsen and Haleigh Larmer
Music by Thandii and Scott Lippitt
Queer Naturalism
Content Warning: Graphic Content
Cael Crosby (he/him)
From the Flowers of Sprungland to a Flower on Earth
Content Warning: Flashing Lights
Film by Zephyr Goose
We are psychedelic folk artists, tricksters, and clowns dedicated to thinning the walls of this Multiverse.
Our Time
Film by Max Rhineer
Sound by Corbin Larsen
Additional Collaborators: Paisley Jensen, Cambria Thorley, Maddox Thompson, and Carter Norris
I hope you enjoy it!
Dusk
Film and Sound by Kohl Avalos Bybee
Additional Collaborators: Terri Zitong Diao, Loren DeGraaff, Skye Kearns
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Water For the Moon
St. Moan
Music & Lyrics: ©St. Moan / ©Ava Kostia
These songs are excerpts from St. Moan's upcoming EP, 'Water for the Moon'. Find St. Moan on bandcamp, SoundCloud, on Insta @st.moan / @avakostia, and at www.stmoan.com. Many thanks to the most wonderful Tori Meyer for her movement direction, and to the QSAF Organizing Committee for their great work and generous support.
Así nací, ¿es pecado?
Content Warning: LDS cultural and religious homophobia.
B and Lorena
From the perspective of a queer kid growing up mormon. We are siblings, both of us are queer. Both of us grew up in the church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day saints. This is about that experience.
This poem draws on our experiences growing up queer as Mormon Latines with immigrant parents. The poem is a conversation about the contradictions of the LDS gospel and the queer experience.
Nostalgia and Dance with Me
Elliott Donaldson
The Marthaodyssey (Excerpt)
Jesse Factor
Re-mixed and Re-worked by Andy Hasenpflug
Costumes: Juliana Waecther, Wig: Tony Allgeier
An embodied conversation between Martha Graham, the "high priestess of modern dance" and Madonna, the "queen of pop".
SATURDAY May 18
5:00 PM
Doomcupcake
Zaza Historia VanDyke
One day I will be on time;
Choreography by Charlotte Stehmeyer
Monologue written by Camden Barrett in collaboration with Solveig Christianson and Izzy Sandston. Performers: Solveig Christianson, Kat Dringman, Kiya Green, Lily Hammons, Josie Kolbeck, Madeline Nelson, Izzy Sandston, Cooper Sullivan, Charlotte Stehmeyer. Music: “Charmaine” by Lucienne Delyle, “Einklang” by Peter Michael Hamel
she who walks for eternity
seeking, accumulating –
not so blind to
the balance of complexity, and the
frustratingly simple.
of course seasons
must come! why shed tears?
does Candle burn through
her wick?
does your mother’s mother’s
lipstick bleed into the
fleshy volume of
her lips?
leaving behind – eroded,
a sticky form
reflecting, remembering
the undeniable body.
an act of love,
of ritual,
a step, a step,
a step.
LEAP! for she
will witness
another winter,
another spring.
Oh, you say,
the whiplash of it all –
abundant, unyielding,
a celebration!
don’t you think?
for we are alive,
she who walks for eternity.
-A collection of words from Charlotte
The Fall
Clayton Conley
undefinable / fabrication together / we experience
Milo Ono, Edison Corvera, Jordan Reynosa, Hunter Hazard
Music by Hunter Hazard
Creator Destroyer
Film and Sound by Chloe Barry
Filming: Nikita Rabbitt and Michael Palmer
Because of my background in geophysics, Earth processes are something I connect to how I understand my identity. I tend to anthropomorphize volcanoes, so it’s fascinating to me that they pre-date and exist outside of human concepts of gender. I am inspired by volcanoes’ ability to contain multiple, even opposing characteristics. They both create and destroy. They can be explosive, fluid, and brittle. I also relate to volcanoes through elements of longing, eg. the stratovolcano just biding time until its next eruption.
Within this piece I explore the power of volcanoes, but also how we can’t perceive the full complexities of them. I experience tension between feeling grounded in who I am but untethered in how and to what degree I am perceived by others. Disorientation in feeling that I’m seen as one thing when I’m actually multiple. To me this is similar to our current understanding of volcanoes. Despite research, there is so much more about volcanic processes that we aren’t able to detect, predict, or explain.
Grounded
Film and Sound by Andrea Whipple
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Sad Girl
Sleepy Moon Ray
Let me tell you what it means to be a body
Savannah Pearson
Greenware: My queer clay body
Film and Sound by Rae Luebbert
Special thanks to Amelia Diehl, Casey Mac, and Lindsay Beebe
source to sea
doug and milo
Additional Collaborators: great salt lake and tributaries
doug and milo traced the body of the bear river with their bodies and bicycles for 300 miles from source to inland sea in the summertime
I Feel All Right
Severin Sargent-Catterton and Sophia Heiner
Music: Super Trouper by ABBA
Thanks to Drew and Monique Heiner for providing rehearsal space.
In this work, we wanted to explore how we can embrace the whimsy of process and allow it to bleed into the final piece. We used codified techniques, social dances, and 3 am-wiggles to create a silly dance in earnest. The work examines the love that two people experience without explanation. How collective joy is multifaceted and undefinable, and how queerness is implicitly centered amongst the undefined space.
