KT Kusmaul is a fat, queer, genderqueer femme performance artist, dancer, choreographer, and community builder. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Body Home Fat Dance. With a history of creating radical gender performance in the underground queer art scene, now she is using her creative skills to bring fat liberation performance art to life. In 2018 she was awarded the year-long Alembic Artist Residency at Performance Works NW. Her work has recently been produced as part of PDX Dance Collective Choreographers Showcase, Knock Out, On The Boards' NW New Work Festival, and Risk/Reward.

Jordan MacIntosh-Hougham graduated with a B.A. from Bennington College in 2016, and is currently based in Seattle. By hybridizing their experience with dance and video, and actively queering these forms, they create experiences that reshape boundaries, and support and encourage radical empathy.

Jesse Belle-Jones (Kristi Krein): Artemis

Jesse Belle-Jones (Kristi Krein) presents a long-form burlesque piece depicting the Greek myth of Artemis and Actaeon. It incorporates puppetry, striptease, pantomime/melodrama, and soundscape among other elements. The story is told with the (single) body from the perspective of several characters/presences: a stag, moonlight, Actaeon, and Artemis.

Jesse Belle-Jones is a post-disciplinary artist based in Seattle, WA focusing on movement and cabaret. She has taught, performed, and co-produced critically acclaimed material at venues across North America and in the United Kingdom. Her collaborative affiliations include UMO Ensemble, Studio Current, Taylor Mac to Carolee Schneemann and beyond.

https://www.facebook.com/jessebellejones

Photo: Meneldor Photography

Dakota Camacho: MALI’E — higher infinite power healing our people

movement . activation . lyrics . intuition . evocation .

MALI'E is an ongoing investigation into the contemporary expressions of the ancestors.

A call-and-response to the spirit of the griot. It’s research towards spiritual solidarity oriented towards relationship and responsibility. How do we approach hip hop as a sacred space?

Born and raised in Coast Salish Territory, Dåkot-ta Alcantara-Camacho's work weaves knowing from both their bloodlines and the diverse lineages that inform their indigenizing journey. Dåkot-ta grounds their creativity in ancestral life ways to span the realms of ritual activation, performance art, installation, contemporary indigenous movement, and cultural responsibility.

@InfiniteDakota
www.infinitedakota.com

HATLO: this is between us

In collaboration with video designer Mel Carter and visual dramaturg MKNZ, this is between us is a meditation on queerness, spatial proximity, cataclysm and survival. this excerpt contributes to a larger project called what mountains end developing in 2019.

HATLO is a queer collaborative artist and theater director based on Duwamish land, commonly known as Seattle. Hatlo applies various generative roles (directing, dramaturgy, writing, performing) to the development of new performance experiments. Hatlo has worked with over a dozen celebrated Northwest performing artists and companies to create world premieres across multiple disciplines. Regular collaborators include Timothy White Eagle, dani tirrell, Keyes Wiley, Shontina Vernon, Rosa Vissers (as PE|Mo), s. lavon trotter and Fox Whitney/Gender Tender. They have developed performance work in collaboration at various residencies including The Orchard Project (NY), High Arts (NYC), Performance Works NW (Portland, OR), Guild Hall (NY), Ferguson Center for the Arts (VA), New Dramatists (NYC), On The Boards and Seattle Repertory Theater (both in Seattle, WA).

Hatlo was nominated for a Gregory New Play Award for their original play STUCK and a Stranger Genius award as part of the creative team for Thatswhatshesaid with Erin Pike and Courtney Meaker. Hatlo was the 2019 Seattle Town Hall Artist-in-Residence, where they facilitated the SOW Queer residency & showcase with 50 local artists. With regular collaborator Timothy White Eagle, Hatlo has toured and performed nationally including On the Boards in Seattle, La Mama ETC in NYC and as part of the Public’s Under the Radar festival.

For the past two years HATLO has been organizing and developing shared movement and artistic work sessions in their community; solo crowd: a movement centered approach for working separately together in shared space and In Habit: a playlist facilitated physical exploration for moving imaginatively together.

Syniva Whitney is an artist creating performative experiences that combine theater, dance and visual art. Syniva’s queer multiracial non-binary point of view is at the heart of their performance project, Gender Tender, for which Syniva creates experiences that investigate the nature of queer and transgender personal relationships and histories as well as the surreal nature of transformation, trauma, and healing. Syniva Whitney/Gender Tender engages a team of artists trained in Syniva’s unique methods modeled on the structures of sports teams, sitcoms, and riots. Technical and conceptual focus combine to engage performers and audience in the dance of intellect, embodiment and radical compassion. Their work aims to disintegrate binary thinking for all participants.

Syniva Whitney was awarded the 2018 Artist in Residence position at Velocity Dance Center. Their performance work has been commissioned and produced by On the Boards’ NW New Works Festival and Solo Festival; Velocity’s Next Fest NW and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation; the Seattle International Dance Festival; Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival and was selected for the inaugural season of Seattle’s Gay City Arts. Their work has also been presented in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Portland OR, Chicago and San Francisco. Syniva has exhibited their visual art and screened their short films nationally. They have an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their current project MELTED RIOT, a queer meditation inspired by the Stonewall Riots of 1969, is supported by the Velocity Dance Center Artist in Residence program.