HARD/FEMME DANCES
JUNE 22 & 23, 2023
8PM
$20 in advance / $25 at-the-door
$15 HEART TICKETS for queer trans BIPOC
The Boof Quadrille*
The Boof Quadrille is a loving spoof, pastiche, and homage to the grand social dances of the Gilded Age. Utilizing the structures of social dances such as the waltz, the quadrille, the tango, the polka, and contemporary dance-making modalities and vocabularies, The Boof Quadrille is a latter-day cotillion where desire, jealousy, and one-upmanship are on full display. The performers weave, bob, and sashay their way around the stages as alliances are forged and shattered, reputations are ruined, and bitter rivalries are reconciled, all in the ultimate quest to become the Belle of the Ball.
*Please note: this piece contains adult content.
Hailed as "Vivid," "Incendiary," "A Beautiful Mess," and "Desperate for Attention," Hard/Femme Dances was founded by Kelsey Rondeau and Hunter Sturgis in late 2018. They are a Brooklyn-based dance theater company focused on storytelling, queer themes, and the transformative power of glitter. As a company, they are excited by anything that is outlandish, outré, and operatic in scale. Coming from a wide-ranging background of concert dance, immersive theater, burlesque, and drag, their work honors these disciplines as its framing sensibilities. Through the lens of camp, my work draws on diverse elements of pop culture and uses found objects to collage, blend, and distill these artifacts into darkly humorous, anarchic, fantastic narratives. Since the founding of the company, they have created short works for venues across New York, including Spoke the Hub, Triskelion Arts, House of Yes in Brooklyn, Gibney Dance Center, and Judson Memorial Church in Manhattan. You can follow them across social media @hardfemmedances