CANNONBALL 2023 MAINSTAGE SHOWS
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Shows by Vibe
$7 Girl
What is a ''Radical Permissionist?'' Mae West, a queer, trans sex worker, wants you to be one. Almanac Dance Circus Theatre returns with this quirky and audacious piece that brings you into the world of erotic labor through virtuosic storytelling, inventive aerial acrobatics, and improvisation.
as if we are all
An interdisciplinary art project that uses music, acting, and participatory decision-making to explore issues of human rights in Iran and our modern world.
Birth. Sparkle. Death.
A stand up/cabaret/video installation mash-up diving down the kaleidoscopic, surrealist rabbit hole of the stages grief that come with the life altering diagnosis.
Dream Sweet Rough Man
Uplifting possibilities for feminist queer masculinities to take root in men's bodies and move through the world.
Falling Up
The Naked Stark
September 2 - 14
Icebox Project Space
A celebration of play, possibility, and the tenderness of being human. Six dance artists displace gravity to co-create new worlds with fantastical possibilities.
Just Like Hollywood
Continuing the decades-long collaboration between Melanie Stewart and John Clancy, this work centers on, explores and explodes the entrapment and degradation of a young woman in contemporary America.
Keeping Watch
A journey that winds its way through growing up poor in South Carolina, the fear of revealing their queer and gender identity to family, and the general homophobia of the church.
Kissing Friends
An intimate theatrical experience folding in and out of reality and daydreams inside the overarching container of friendship in relation to intimacy.
Memories of the moon
Yuki Ishiguro
September 3 + September 10
Icebox Project Space
Yuki's newest work is inspired by the diary of a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp during WWII.
MOMMA i RODE THE BEAST
Through a series of horrific metamorphoses and ruptured happenings as a gothic queer existential necromantic wrestling inquisition with the BULL OF CHAOS, Jordan Deal questions the fugitivity to come thereafter~after it's rode good.
My Soul Is In Command
A thrilling and thought-provoking experience featuring synth-infused melodies, and a perfect balance of groove and unease.
Read Me A World
The Exuberance
September 9 - 30
Liberty Lands
A collection of interactive activities and artist-designed, temporary outdoor reading nook installations that inspire the intimate, connective joy of reading aloud with loved ones.
She Was A Conquistawhore
A woman and her vagina, a cowboy named Pete, find themselves brawling over control of their shared body.
Smile! You're On Camera
An interactive, multimedia dance performance exploring the relationship between performer and audience member.
spiegel spiegel
A performative approach to doubles, doppelgängers, and doubting, giving movement to the alienation of the self through a refractive lens.