Episode 1: Eric Garcia and Chuck Wilt

Episode 1: Pina, queering as a transitive verb, wrecking, drag as political practice, visibility …

A conversation with artists Eric Garcia and Chuck Wilt about their collaborative show, Beyond, “an evening-length production that reassembles Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring into an intergalactic, Queer extravaganza.”

ARTIST BIOS

Eric Garcia is a San Francisco-based devised dance-theater artist, drag queen, community organizer, and the Co-Director of Detour. He creates immersive and site-responsive performances that straddle nostalgia, radical futurism, collaborative ensembles, and queer maximalism. Eric is rooted in the drag and nightlife scene as Churro Nomi, and produces/hosts Clutch The Pearls, a drag cabaret on the first Sunday of every month at Make-Out Room in the Mission District.  https://detour.productions/

Chuck Wilt is a choreographer, drag artist known as Fuchsia, educator, and the Artistic Director of San Francisco based UNA Productions. Chuck is currently on faculty at the LINES Training Program and has taught, created and set repertory for universities, training programs, professional companies, youth companies, public high schools, and professional dancers. Chuck’s work through UNA has been presented in San Francisco, NYC, Maryland, Colorado, San Diego, Massachusetts, Tokyo and Kaga Japan, Montreal, Vancouver and Rural BC. www.una.productions

RESOURCES

Susan Rethorst, A Choreographic Mind

TILT Shift Dance, On Wrecking

José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia

bell hooks, Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness

On Pina Bausch's Sacre (Rite of Spring)

Hope Mohr, Self and System

Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

Sarah Schulman Waxes Politic

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