KASHIA KANCEY
THE CLOSTIES VARIETY HOUR

Co-presented with Live Artery | New York Live Arts


Photo by XXX. Lighting Design by Connor Sale

JAN 11, 2PM & 7:30PM
JAN 12, 7:30PM

TICKETS

EARLY BIRDS
$22 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS


AT-THE-DOOR
$26 / $30 SUPERFAN / $50 🌟 SUPPORTER
$17 HEARTS

This performance contains the use of water based haze.
All seating is general admission.
All performances take place at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn.

VIRTUAL PROGRAM

Photo by XX. Lighting Design by Connor Sale .

The Closties Variety Hour

"The Closties Variety Hour" is a multi-disciplinary production that follows four friends as they showcase their lives in the form of a televised variety show. This work serves as a journal entry written in hot pink gel pen as the cast transform into their deepest desires, allowing viewers into an expansive world of dreaming while reflecting on shared memories and interests they hold closely. Delving into themes of friendship, childlike wonder, self-indulgence, and radical black joy, these friends embody and immerse themselves inside an experimental landscape filled with transcendence, discovery, and pleasure. "The Closties Variety Hour" is an extravagant evening that morphs realities and invites audiences into the souls of the characters, experiencing the way they all relate to themselves and one another. This work explores the many ways we can and do exist as individuals and the importance of community, while also celebrating our complex and multi-faceted natures. 

Photo by X. Lighting Design by Connor Sale

KASHIA KANCEY

Kashia Kancey is a Miami-born performer and choreographer, who earned her BFA in Dance from New World School of the Arts. As a performer, Kashia has had the pleasure of working with Rosie Herrera Dance Theatre, Adele Myers and Dancers, and Abby Z and the New Utility, David Dorfman Dance, and Urban Bush Women. She has also worked with artists like Donna Uchizono, Tendayi Kuumba, and Annie-B Parson, Symara Sarai, and Cristina Moya-Palacios. Her choreographic history begins in Miami by making work on herself and the Peter London Global Dance Company. Since moving to NYC, she has had work presented in spaces like CreateART Performance, Triskelion Arts and Movement Research at Judson Church. Kashia is grateful to have been a recipient of residencies at Baryshnikov Arts Center(2024), Triskelion Arts Fellowship (2025), and the Fresh Tracks Residency at New York Live Arts (2025). Kashia is based in Brooklyn, NY.


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