Triskelion Arts presents Hard/Femme Dances in "The Boof Quadrille"
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Triskelion Arts
HARD/FEMME DANCES
JUNE 22 & 23, 2023
8PM
The Boof Quadrille
The Boof Quadrille is a loving spoof, pastiche, and homage to the grand social dances of the Gilded Age. Utilizing the structures of social dances such as the waltz, the quadrille, the tango, the polka and contemporary dance-making modalities and vocabularies, The Boof Quadrille is a latter-day cotillion where desire, jealousy, and one-upmanship are on full display. The performers weave, bob, and sashay their way around the stages as alliances are forged and shattered, reputations are ruined, and bitter rivalries are reconciled, all in the ultimate quest to become the Belle of the Ball.
Hard/Femme Dances was founded by Kelsey Rondeau and Hunter Sturgis in late 2018. We are a Brooklyn-based dance theater company excited by anything outlandish, outré, and operatic in scale. Their work draws on diverse elements of pop culture and uses found objects to collage, blend, and distill these artifacts into fantastic narratives. With a camp and queer sensibility, the company laughs at its inner demons and practices empathy with its audiences. Coming from a wide-ranging background of concert dance, immersive theater, film, burlesque, and drag, Hard/Femme Dances makes work that honors these disciplines to explore its conceptions of self/hood which are unique to its authentic voice Acclaimed as a 'beautiful mess,' 'virtuosic,' and 'desperate for attention,' the company continues to work towards their goal of world domination, one killer lip-synch at a time.
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