OUT - PuSh Festival Vancouver
Ray Young, presented with the Frank Theatre Co.
Under a charged nightclub haze, two performers move with electric intimacy, flirting, teasing, shape-shifting. Immersed in the bittersweet fragrance of oranges, OUT is a defiant challenge to the status quo that bravely carves out a new kind of space, reclaiming and celebrating our queer future.
It’s about embodying authenticity, a resistance against homophobia and transphobia that embraces various political and cultural inspirations such as voguing, dancehall and Black liberation. The performers dance in solidarity alongside global 2SLGBTQIA+ movements, breaking down violent histories to imagine something new. Something liberated. Something delicious.
Ray Young
Ray Young is an award winning trans-disciplinary performance artist, theatre maker, director and writer. Their practice exists at the boundaries of activism, queerness, race and neuro-diversity, holding space for those at the intersection of multiple identities, through collaboration and resistance to traditional form. In recent years Ray’s work has focussed on using their art to foster notions of rest, care and recovery, and what it means to both create and receive art as a neurodivergent person, considering a slower pace, and stepping outside of the capitalist ideologies of production. They are keen to explore how to build a practice that is more holistic both in terms of the whole self, and in drawing together art, nature and technology. Their work has been presented widely across the UK and internationally – including Portland, Geneva, Mexico City, Skopje and Vienna.
Performance Works
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver
Feb 8 9:00 pm
Feb 9 5:00 pm
