Artists

Co-Director

Frankie Toan

Based in Denver, Frankie Toan is an artist working mostly with craft and DIY materials and techniques to create large plush sculptures, interactive works, and immersive installations. Frankie holds a BFA in Craft/Material studies from Virginia Commonwealth University, with a minor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s studies. Their current body of work consists of elongated or engorged body parts tied, arranged, and installed in conversation with each other, creating fantasy bodies. Frankie has participated in many group shows and collaborations nationwide. Recent projects include a commission for Meow Wolf’s Kaleidoscape immersive ride at Elitch Gardens and their public art installation “Public Bodies” for Between Us Alleys, a citywide art intervention. They have had residencies at RedLine (CO) and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN). An avid mystery theatre fan, Frankie has written 3 mystery theatre plots, including the collaborative production [Colony 933].

Co-Director

Serena Chopra

Serena Chopra is a multidisciplinary artist. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Denver, an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and was a 2011-2013 RedLine artist in Residence, a 2016-2017 Fulbright Scholar (Bangalore, India), and has received a month-long artist residency at Understudy Denver for September 2020. She has two books, This Human (Coconut Books 2013) and Ic (Horse Less Press 2017), as well as two films, Dogana/Chapti (2018, winner of ArtHyve’s Archives as Muse Film grant, Official Selection at Frameline43, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Seattle Queer Film Festival, Nahia Film Festival and Cinema Diverse) and Mother Ghosting (2018). She is an 8-year company member with Evolving Doors Dance and was recently a featured artist in Harper’s Bazaar (India) as well as in the Denver Westword’s “100 Colorado Creatives.” She has forthcoming publications in Foglifter and Matters of Feminist Practice (Belladonna). Serena is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Seattle University.

Co-Director

Kate Speer

Kate Speer is a dancer, choreographer, and organizer based in Denver, CO. She has had residencies at RedLine (CO), PlatteForum (CO), Middlebury College (VT), Swarthmore College (PA), and Mascher Space Cooperative (PA), all of which emphasize community engagement that is inherent in her dancemaking. Often self-producing in DIY spaces, her own choreography has been supported by National Performance Network Creation Fund, Colorado Creative Industries Career Advancement Grant, and the Puffin Foundation, and has been presented at Performatica (Cholula, Mexico), Boulder International Fringe Festival (CO), Philly Fringe (PA), ETC Performance Series (PA), and FAB Dance Showcase (ME). Always seeking collaborative performance projects, she directed [Colony 933], an immersive mystery dance-theatre conceived of and created collectively with 20 different artists in visual, performance, and music. She has had the pleasure to perform in work by Gesel Mason Performance Projects, Ondine Geary, Raja Feather Kelly, Tania Isaac, and Claudia Lavista.

Installation Artist

Moe Gram

Moe Gram, is a Denver based designer, artist, educator, and community organizer. In 2014 she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a special focus in Studio Fine Art and a minor in Cultural Studies from California State University Bakersfield. While conceptual design is a great love for Gram, she is most commonly known for her brightly colored abstract murals, texture heavy collage, and her complex maximalist immersive installation works. Currently Gram is the visual arts educator at STRIVE Prep Green Valley Ranch Middle School and sitting board member of Birdseed Collective.

Clown House

Located at THE OVERWHELM, Mint & Serif

• Artist: Moe Gram
• Audio Producer: Carlitta (Ann) 
• Voice Actor: Justy Robinson 
• Performers: Justy Robinson, Sam Gilstrap

Sometimes when you are doing your absolute best to be a good sport and put on a smile, life can just be hard. Like a kick to the genitals, you are painfully frustrated.  Your heart murmurs in anticipation.  Small repetitive heart attacks only dissipate when distracted.  Sometimes no matter what you do you just get knocked down on your face. Until finally, the smallest thing like a grease stain on your shirt or smashing your finger is what breaks you. Like a cheap firework, you explode. Ashamed at how pathetic you are, you cry. 

As you grow older you learn that feeling never really goes away. It just pops up here and there over the years. Ultimately there is just No Place To Go. You will continue to be haunted by the never-ending overwhelm that is existing.   

Installation Artist

Michaela Mujica-Steiner + Emily Marie Passos Duffy

This creator-performer duo is composed of Michaela Mujica-Steiner and Emily Marie Passos Duffy. With backgrounds in a variety of performance art modalities including poetry, narrative writing, burlesque, and immersive soundscapes, the two endeavor to explore adaptive strategies, spaces of be/longing, and cultural assimilation as daughters of Latinx immigrants. Some of their collaborative work to date has included designing and performing in interactive landscapes for Boulder Burlesque’s The Seven Undeadly Sins: An Erotic Haunted House Experience, creating and performing a polyphonic multimedium piece in Writers for Migrant Justice as part of a national protest reading and fundraiser for Immigrant Families Together, co-teaching a 5-week Conscious Burlesque workshop, and co-choreographing and performing a duet in Condom Couture, a benefit for Boulder Valley Women’s Health. Their devised productions interrogate liminal spaces and weave together the frayed ends of identity, inheritance, and unperceived societal shadows.

Dream Sold Wholesale

Located at DATA ASSIMILATION BASE, the Music Range

• Artists: Emily Marie Passos Duffy & Michaela Mujica-Steiner
• Performers: Roxanne Whiskey, Lady M, Rebecca Rooney, Hannah Tiên, Caroline Sharkey, Aleighya (AJ) Dawkins
• Cyborg Video filmed and edited by Julie Rooney

What would you give up in order to be part of a new world? This multi-medium hybrid performance/ installation peers behind the curtain of a posthuman liturgy at the parts and wires of a crumbling façade. We explore a relationship of dependence and exploitation as the technologically blurred boundaries of the machine and the organic manifest a chaotic cyborg reality. As we relinquish our data into the vectors of consumerism, our differences, our queerness, and our struggles for resistance find no way to escape from the digital nation-state. Situated in this violence of assimilation, capitalism, and consumer culture, we examine our relationship with excess and disconnection from the earth and each other. In this manifestation of the myth of the American Dream, there is no light at the end of the tunnel, only glitching circuits, bodies alienated from themselves. What would you sacrifice in order to avoid being the thing sacrificed?

Installation Artist

Steven Frost

Textiles are a powerful medium — their association with the body and garments evoke tactile memories. Using weaving, Steven Frost combines traditional materials like yarn and cotton with non-traditional weaving materials from a range of sources, exploring the ways history and time are embedded in materials. His materials evoke specific narratives and stories, referencing aspects of the artist’s personal and family history, the history of the LGBTQ rights movement, and queer pop icons, among other topics. In workshops and interactive performance events, the artist invites participants to learn about queer history while developing sewing and weaving techniques. By bringing together groups to weave collectively, Frost explores the ways weaving can act as a metaphor for communities working together. He holds an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an instructor in the Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He also serves as Faculty Directory for the B2 Center for Media, Arts, and Performance part of CU Boulder’s Atlas Institute.

Liberace in Purgatory

Located at A LIBERACE DREAM

• Artist: Steven Frost

Liberace loved all the finest things in life, diamonds, mansions, small dogs, and beautiful men. However, in the afterlife, he’s moved from the glitz and glamour of a Las Vegas hotel to a gritty former Dollar Tree Store in Lakewood, Colorado. Some of the glitter of Vegas has rubbed off as he performs the same four-minute act again and again for all eternity. 

Installation Artist

nolan tredway

Found covered in moss near the Korvik River, Nolan was raised in the Great North by a mountain and a burning forest. He learned the art of storytelling from his time among the Volkos, before studying art at the University of Nebraska and Fundacion Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain. He creates surreal and symbolic worlds in painting, sculpture, puppetry and interactive media.

Solids Are Just Fluids in Slow Motion

Located at THE SURVEILLANCE SPA

• Artist: Nolan Tredway

One of the most devastating lies humanity tells is that love, passion, desire, and all of their distant relatives live in the heart. What catastrophic knowledge must these inhabitants contain to warrant a linguistic feigned expulsion from the garden of the brain into the wilderness of the body? What cold, wretched being would need to believe in a wall between the two? 

In some gardens, anomalies are named weeds and believed to be discarded, invaders from bodily lands yet to be conquered. But the wild of the wilderness brain survives between the rows and boxes, a ghost haunting the ether of unseen spaces, flourishing. When their roots erode the garden walls, when all of the gates are opened, the gardeners with the most walls flailingly insist humanity must live in the heart, in the other body. Everything here is named and in boxes. It is paradise. The wilderness, already in its home, does not listen.

Installation Artist

Hayley Dixon

Hayley works in the medium of paper mache and absurd ideas, to bring joy and playfulness to spaces and events. Built with the desire to create, Hayley produces work that embodies nature and the vast unknowns of the imagination. Regarded as the AstroTurf Princess, she uses organic and artificial ingredients to transform spaces into strange worlds. Her mediums include: installation art, illustration, and event curation. Hayley co-produces a local Talent Show and builds installations for raves.

The Waiting Room 

Located at THE WAITING ROOM, Tootsies the Nail Shoppe

• Artists: Hayley Dixon & Renee Marino
• Design, Production & Fabrication: Hayley Dixon & Renee Marino
• Sound Design: Justin Forthuber
• Makeup Artist: Emily Hempstead
• Nail Technician: Joy Martinez

The Waiting Room seeks to explore the anxieties that occur within the liminal space of waiting rooms. Intrinsically, waiting rooms are the modern limbo; time and actions are dictated by someone else, and the passage through is defined by one’s ability to answer questions which minimize and homogenize identities.  Although often associated with medical facilities, the concept of waiting rooms can be even more expansive– a place where one simply waits. Waiting rooms are a space of expectation and “correct” answers, but how do these spaces feel to those who exist outside of standardized narratives? This installation explores the anxiety and fear of existing outside of the norm and furthermore, becoming disconnected from personal agency. The room appeals to a vaporwave aesthetic, drawing on early 2000’s digital art and a mash-up of obsolete and semi-obsolete technologies. Building on dystopian concepts of the past, the room reveals an enduring progression of sterile technologies that create dissonance between the space and the viewer.

Installation Artist

Renee Marino

Renee works in the realm of words, music, organizing, and publication. Hayley works in the medium of paper mache and absurd ideas, to bring joy and playfulness to spaces and events. With a love for communication and connecting with other artists, Renee began making poetry and art zines. Her zinester spirit has since given way to Dirt Media, dirtmedia.org, an online platform, supporting artists and writers. She is on the Board of Directors for Street Wise Arts, a local non-profit, which advocates for and implements urban art, murals, and art education projects.

The Waiting Room 

Located at THE WAITING ROOM, Tootsies the Nail Shoppe

• Artists: Hayley Dixon & Renee Marino
• Design, Production & Fabrication: Hayley Dixon & Renee Marino
• Sound Design: Justin Forthuber
• Makeup Artist: Emily Hempstead
• Nail Technician: Joy Martinez

The Waiting Room seeks to explore the anxieties that occur within the liminal space of waiting rooms. Intrinsically, waiting rooms are the modern limbo; time and actions are dictated by someone else, and the passage through is defined by one’s ability to answer questions which minimize and homogenize identities.  Although often associated with medical facilities, the concept of waiting rooms can be even more expansive– a place where one simply waits. Waiting rooms are a space of expectation and “correct” answers, but how do these spaces feel to those who exist outside of standardized narratives? This installation explores the anxiety and fear of existing outside of the norm and furthermore, becoming disconnected from personal agency. The room appeals to a vaporwave aesthetic, drawing on early 2000’s digital art and a mash-up of obsolete and semi-obsolete technologies. Building on dystopian concepts of the past, the room reveals an enduring progression of sterile technologies that create dissonance between the space and the viewer.

Installation Artist

Chrissy Espinoza

Chrissy Espinoza grew up in Colorado and has lived throughout the American West. She attended Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design where she studied 2D Animation. She works primary with video, photography and animation. Her short animations have been in independent film and animation festivals in Colorado, the Bay Area and Amsterdam, including P.O.V Animation Festival, Filmhuis Cavia and the Titwrench Art & Music Festival. Espinoza creates surreal environments for her photography which are created from her concepts and imagination. She thoughtfully creates and thinks about every detail for her photoshoots. The act of creating the environment is just as important as taking the photos. Some of her inspiration spawns from installations, surrealism and films. She believes that a great story is key to intriguing the viewer and creating a successful piece of artwork.

Sleep Paralysis

Located at A LIBERACE DREAM

• Artists: Grace Cooper & Chrissy Espinoza

This installation piece is a collaboration between Grace Cooper and Chrissy Espinoza consisting of a bedroom scene combining video, sculptural, and performance elements. We hope to exhibit the emotions and the internal struggle happening within the stillness of an ordinary bedroom. 

With this project we’ll delve into our shared experiences with sleep paralysis and demonstrate our visual representation of it playing out in accordance to our comparative experiences and the accounts of many others. We will be exploring concepts of subjugation, estrangement and fear that can be experienced even within the safety of a seemingly peaceful and familiar environment. We will be focusing on the supernatural effects from sleep paralysis. An alarming number of sufferers observe a similar dark or demonic entity that suppresses one’s ability to breath by perching upon their chest or pinning them down. The video projection will be shot and directed by Chrissy Espinoza and feature Grace Cooper performing “the spirit” or the conscious attempting to escape the body (the bedridden sculpture). Gina Pugliese will appear in a projection over the body in the form of the classical sleep paralysis demon. Inspired by the iconic incubus from Henry Fuseli’s 1781 oil painting “The Nightmare.”

The feeling of being trapped is terrible. Feeling helpless is terrible. We hope our piece will speak to any persons that have ever felt those feelings even if they have not themselves suffered from sleep paralysis. We hope it will speak to anyone who has ever been restricted to the isolation of hiding their true selves or concealed themselves sensing a potentially hostile atmosphere. To anyone that has been stranded in a time and place that in one reality seems familiar and innocuous, yet in another is oppressive and dangerous. To anyone that’s felt trapped in their own body. To anyone who’s felt watched, spied on or viewed as a curiosity.

Installation Artist

Grace Cooper

Grace Cooper is a self taught artist and musician from Oakland Ca. She started drawing at a young age and is now known for her detailed and unsettling portraits of mainly female subjects. She works primarily with fine point pens and water color. She is also a singer songwriter and has released multiple home recorded and studio albums, both solo under the name “Grace Sings Sludge” and with the San Francisco group “The Sandwitches.” For her solo project she creates her own music videos and incorporates many elements from her favorite genre of film Horror.

Sleep Paralysis

Located at A LIBERACE DREAM

• Artists: Grace Cooper & Chrissy Espinoza

This installation piece is a collaboration between Grace Cooper and Chrissy Espinoza consisting of a bedroom scene combining video, sculptural, and performance elements. We hope to exhibit the emotions and the internal struggle happening within the stillness of an ordinary bedroom. 

With this project we’ll delve into our shared experiences with sleep paralysis and demonstrate our visual representation of it playing out in accordance to our comparative experiences and the accounts of many others. We will be exploring concepts of subjugation, estrangement and fear that can be experienced even within the safety of a seemingly peaceful and familiar environment. We will be focusing on the supernatural effects from sleep paralysis. An alarming number of sufferers observe a similar dark or demonic entity that suppresses one’s ability to breath by perching upon their chest or pinning them down. The video projection will be shot and directed by Chrissy Espinoza and feature Grace Cooper performing “the spirit” or the conscious attempting to escape the body (the bedridden sculpture). Gina Pugliese will appear in a projection over the body in the form of the classical sleep paralysis demon. Inspired by the iconic incubus from Henry Fuseli’s 1781 oil painting “The Nightmare.”

The feeling of being trapped is terrible. Feeling helpless is terrible. We hope our piece will speak to any persons that have ever felt those feelings even if they have not themselves suffered from sleep paralysis. We hope it will speak to anyone who has ever been restricted to the isolation of hiding their true selves or concealed themselves sensing a potentially hostile atmosphere. To anyone that has been stranded in a time and place that in one reality seems familiar and innocuous, yet in another is oppressive and dangerous. To anyone that’s felt trapped in their own body. To anyone who’s felt watched, spied on or viewed as a curiosity.

Installation Artist

Hayley Krichels

Hayley Krichels is an artist and educator based in Denver, Colorado. After receiving her degree in Photography from Bard College, Krichels worked in art education programs at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Clyfford Still Museum, and now Denver Public Schools. In her photography, she explores visual humor and the way artwork lives in our world. She also enjoys quilting her feelings and may someday share these creations with the world.

Photo Booth

Located at THE OVERWHELM, Mint & Serif

• Artist: Hayley Krichels

In my work I am exploring the fear of being, of being watched/constantly having to perform and how it interacts with the same desire to perform and be seen. These fears are paramount to the queer identity; there are common, accepted ideas of what we are and how we exist in the world. We are expected to constantly represent these ideas in the public view. I am addressing these ideas by pairing the classic photo booth with the disconcerting voice of the observer, and an inability to control when and how you are being viewed. 

Installation Artist

Nicole Anona Banowetz

Nicole Banowetz creates sewn inflatable sculptures.  Nicole’s work is inspired by the natural world. She addresses human qualities while using the imagery she finds in the animal, plant, mineral, and bacterial worlds. She has made made installations inspired by bacteria, parasitic fungus, viruses, radiolaria, rotifers, horses, and rhinos. All these forms she recreates in soft inflatable sculptures, which she designs and sews on her sewing machine. Nicole has shown locally in the Denver Art Museum, The Museum of Outdoor Arts, and Pirate Contemporary, and internationally in the Amsterdam Light Festival, Open Art in Sweden, the Kreuzberg Pavillon in Germany, and Gray Contemporary and the Silos in Sawyer Yards in Houston, Texas.

The Intervening Substance

Located at THE SURVEILLANCE SPA

• Artist: Nicole Banowetz
• App Designer: Bryan Costanza

The Intervening Substance is inspired by ectoplasm, and the early mediums who produced it.  Scientists captured mesmerizing photos of what looks like a cloth substance oozing from mediums’ bodies.  One researcher explains  “The color white is the most frequent…. it can seem soft and a bit elastic when it spreads;…. it gives the sensation of a spider’s web fluttering over the observers’ hand…The substance is mobile. At one moment it evolves slowly, rises, falls, wanders over the medium…”  Mediums had power because they delivered messages from beyond.  Humans strive for guidance, and acceptance from mysterious external forces.  We not only pursue messages from the dead but also solicit advice from Artificial Intelligence, fortune tellers, technology, aliens, Gods, and even celebrities or social media.  What do we give up when we focus our search for meaning and acceptance on distant external forces.  This work is a response to the human search for explanations to our existence, and our desire to be accepted. It is not meant to condemn our search for meaning, but to question our process while creating a complex feeling of simultaneous joy and discomfort within the viewer. 

Installation Artist

BAGBAYSHA (aka BBS)

Denver Locals “BAGBAYSHA” that is:

Chris BAGley, photographer/videographer/documentarian, interactive projectionist, and collector of discarded/unappreciated items.

Koko BAYer, photographer/videographer/documentarian and mega-scale printmaker/wheat-paster.

Thomas ScHArfenberg, color, pattern, found-material enthusiast, multi-surface+object texture-painter, photographer and flower greenhouse worker.

Salt and Pepper Ghost

Located at A LIBERACE DREAM

• Artists: BAGBAYSHA
• Materials: Glass, mirrors, aluminum, Wire, electrical and video components, sunflower stalks, string, yarn, plastic bags, latex paint and spray paint, foil, paper, ink and glue

Welcome to a holographic, twilight zone-outer limit, pandora box, gateway- portal sculpture… A rotating multi dimensional object which creates and uses light and reflection to produce layers of cast color and shadow. The shared experiences of this situation is/are to be interpreted by each individual as each experience shall be a unique combination of color light and shadow to feel as a whole… Thank you for being here.

Lighting Designer & Technical Director

Vik Padilla

Vik is a stage lighting designer/lighting programmer/electrician.

Sound Designer

Mike Clark

Mike Clark is a Denver-based musician with more than 20 years of writing, performing, and recording. His earlier work reflects more singer-songwriter influenced music while his current material is largely instrumental and atmospheric music for film and performance art.

App Designer

Bryan Costanza

Bryan Costanza is a Denver-based Creative Technologist specializing in “wrangling technology” for artistic and entrepreneurial projects, especially interactive art installations and mobile apps. He enjoys exploring projects that combine scientific, technological, and artistic elements and is always seeking opportunities to integrate these fields into new experiences. Bryan’s background includes an MS in Creative Technologies & Design, a BS in Aerospace Engineering, and a minor in Psychology. He has also worked in education and at startups in a wide variety of roles. His recent interests are focused on user-centered design, information visualization, and generative art. Past projects include an interactive sculpture collaboration with Nicole Banowetz, a gesture-controlled arcade game, a software tool for designers, a science exhibit, and virtual reality research.

Stage Manager

Teresa Orosco

Videographer & Editor

Julie Rooney

Filmmaker Julie Rooney has a lyrical, art-centered style and specializes in dance film, documentary film, and animal-related creative. Working from her foundation as an experimental filmmaker, she is the lead video editor for Dancing Camera, the New York based production company, and also directs its office in Denver, her home town. She has filmed around the world for organizations like The Guggenheim Museum, The Denver Art Museum, The Cunningham Foundation, and more. She is the founder of Howlll Films, a production company that focuses on animal-based creative films. Currently she is creating documentaries for Colorado nature non-profits and directing music videos and other creative works. Julie received her MFA in film from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Videographer

Carlos D. Flores

Carlos Flores (he/him/his) is a writer, filmmaker, painter and composer. He is the founder of Watcheye Studios, an independent film and art production house. Raised half in Puerto Rico and half in the states, his work often explores queer themes and cultural diaspora. He lives in Denver with his wife Connie and their watcheyed dog, Nutmeg.

360 Degree Video Editor

Max Bernstein

Max Bernstein was born in Buffalo, NY where they received a BA in Media Study concentrating in film and video production, from SUNY Buffalo. Bernstein received an MFA in Film Production and Studio Art from CU Boulder. They have worked and toured as a technical artist with the Wooster Group, and as a video and sound designer with Michelle Ellsworth, Kaki King, Cindy Kleine, Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Sam Kim, and Morgan Gould. In addition, they are one half of the piano harp duo Outlier, a member of media performance group Flinching Eye Collective, member of Friends Of The Tank, drummer and video designer for the band Eupana, a multi-instrumentalist, and a Scuba Diver. Bernstein taught film history and production at CU Boulder, and video art at the RMCAD. They are currently a Lecturer for the New American Film School, and The School of Music, Dance, and Theatre at Arizona State University.

Narrator

James Brunt

James Brunt is an actor born and raised in Denver, Colorado most known for pushing the boundaries of what we know about theater with immersive productions in obscure settings and hard hitting concepts that make his audience truly reflect on their views of the world. Playing roles from a cleaver wielding beet butcher, to a zany detective on the hunt for answers, he loves to create anything that will make his heart beat faster and blood boil up. He recently received the 2019 True West award for breakout actors for his challenging portrayal of taxi driver, Bobby, in Mosque with The Black Actors Guild. Other works recognized were his productions with The Band of Toughs and Control Group Productions. When Brunt isn’t taking the stage, he still finds ways to enlighten his audiences by performing original slam poetry or creating magical moments as the beloved Santa Claus. He is also an educator of the arts, teaching improv to the youth of Denver with the Black Actors Guild.

Performer

Justy Robinson

Justy Robinson (born Justice Smith) is a multifaceted artist and content creator whose biggest life passion is to inspire the next generations into action, self-discovery, and learning to connect with other people. He aims to achieve these goals through writing plays, film, and television, direction of plays and movies, and acting in those same mediums. He is also a founding member of Don’t Shoot the Zine, writer, producer, and editor for Dream. Create. Inspire.’s YouTube series, #CreatorsOnly, and a Director on the Board of Directors for Creative Strategies for Change.

Performer

Sam Gilstrap

Sam is a passionate artist who’s had the good fortune to work in theater and film all over Colorado. A proud company member of The Catamounts; he’s also performed for BETC, Miner’s Alley Playhouse and the Arvada Center. His theater podcast entitled The Ghost Lights Podcast streams new content regularly. He’d like to thank you for supporting this project and staying safe out there. We are all connected.

Performer

Caroline Sharkey

Caroline Sharkey is a dancer, choreographer, and arts activist. Caroline has trained at Interlochen Arts Academy and the Alonzo King LINES BFA program. From 2018-2020 she participated in Hubbard Street Professional Program and performed with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago on numerous occasions during her time there. She is currently a collaborator with BodySonnet, a collective of dancers focused on providing communities across the country accessible interactions with interdisciplinary dance performance. Her work has been presented across the country in both traditional and non-traditional spaces.

Performer

Hannah Tiên

Hannah Tiên is a multicultural artist, dancer, and body worker who is eternally bound to dance, movement, and traditional medicines. Through extensive travel, trainings under master teachers, and education dedicated to studying a wide array of techniques, Hannah has developed a unique perspective to movement expression and healing. She holds a B.A. in Dance and Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and hopes to soon practice as a Holistic Nutrition Therapist. She thanks her ancestors and elders for their guidance, and her mother for everything.

Performer

Roxanne Whiskey

“Her kind of medicine is whiskey straight, she’s got a mouth to put you in your place.” Roxanne Whiskey is a Denver based Queer burlesque performer. She is part of the Boulder Burlesque troupe as well as a solo performer in the Denver and Boulder draglesque scene. Roxanne is a Wild West Madam, kicking ass, and taking names, while you beg for more.

Performer

Aleighya (AJ) Dawkins

Aleighya is an undergraduate student at CU Boulder, getting her BA in Dance with a minor in Music and certificate in Hip hop studies. She is passionate for and wants to try almost any art form, even if she is not the best at that particular form. She has been dancing since she was 2 years old and singing since she could eat food in the high chair. She is an alumni of Denver School of the Arts and hopes to be able to use art to reach out to people and communities.

Performer

Rebecca Rooney

Rebecca grew up doing competitive gymnastics and didn’t find dance until her last semester of college. She fell in love with it and decided to pursue a professional path. Her dance training at the Artistic Development Program in Kansas City has led to many awesome opportunities, including being a soloist at City in Motion Dance Theater and the lead in a National Tour. She is excited to be part of No Place to Go!

Performer

Lady M

A Madame of Mystery and Madness our murderess Lady M is excited to bring new horror and insanity!

Performer

Britt Ford

Britt is a movement artist and wordsmith hailing from the mountains of Colorado.  She is a lazy sunday morning and a firecracker. She values collaboration, deep listening, and perhaps most importantly, silliness. Britt thrives in evocative, multi-disciplinary work, and is most interested in creating and contributing to genre bending, sensorial, experiences.

Performer

laika fox

Laika Fox is a Denver-based burlesque performance artist, originally from Oakland, CA. Drawing on her background in jazz dance, musical theater, and activism, she uses burlesque as a medium for creating acts that are clever, insightful, and often subversive. She performs all over Denver and the Bay Area, and also nationally and internationally at various festivals and shows. She received the title of ‘Most Classic’ at ABurlyQ 2017 dressed as a giant piece of meat. Laika is a co-director of The Body Political. The Body Political is an organization that confronts social myths about the body through personal stories of resistance and reclamation. Programs of BP include: a bi-annual subversive burlesque and variety show, workshops on how to create political performances about your experiences in your body, and sponsoring and promoting other subversive burlesque and variety shows.

Performer

Amy Marie Linhoff

Amy is a dancer currently working and creating in the Boulder/Denver area.