Ariel Burke (she/her, REL), is a Seattle based performer weaving in, out and around acting, movement, improv, writing and music. She has performed with Gender Tender, General Magic, RJBJ, Theater of Change-University of Washington, Engaged Theatre. Founding member and frontwoman for an experimental post-punk band, Rachaels Children. The band has performed throughout PNW and festivals such as Treefort(Boise, ID) and Underground Music Festival(Denver, CO).
contact: [email protected] Fox Whitney’s transgender and queer point of view is at the heart of his performance project, Gender Tender, founded in 2012. He creates experiences that investigate the nature of queer relationships, trans histories and the surreal nature of transformation. GT engages a team of artists trained in Fox’s unique methods modeled on cults, sitcoms, pandemic parties and riots. He is also a musician, filmmaker, actor, dancer, teaching artist and is the Artistic Director for Velocity Dance Center based in Seattle WA. Melted Riot, a Gender Tender performance inspired by the Stonewall Riots of 1969, was presented at Velocity Dance Center on the 50th anniversary of the uprising. His work has been commissioned and produced by the Henry Art Gallery, On the Board’s 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. He has performed in work by Will Rawls, Heather Kravas, keyon gaskin, Morgan Thorson, CommonForm Dance Project, Malic Amalya and Gabrielle Civil, is the drummer for the bands The Gender Tender Experiment and Rachaels Children and has exhibited his dance films and visual art nationally. contact: [email protected] |