Yackez: Smell the Dance -PLUS- Crabs in a Bucket/ Paige is not a Lesbian Yackez - PLUS - Ashley R.T. Yergens
About This Show
Yackez: Smell the Dance (pictured)
Yackez
YACKEZ creators, Jon and Larissa Velez-Jackson, fashion their live personas to satirize pop celebrities and themselves, while creating with dance collaborators a spectacle of queer, punk, and dance comedy. If you missed Yackez’s recent residency performance at El Museo del Barrio, here’s another chance to see “The World’s Most Loveable Hip Hop Duo” and the Yackez Dancers’ new take on pop/feminist politics, pro-wrestling, and cathartic social dance forms. This evening, created especially for Dixon Place 24th annual Hot! Festival, will feature special guests including their mascot, YackMan.
Crabs in a Bucket/ Paige is not a Lesbian
Ashley R.T. Yergens
When you catch a crab and place her in a bucket, the first thing she’ll try to do is escape. When two crabs are placed in a bucket, as soon as one tries to climb up out of the bucket, the other will pull the escaping crab back down and try to escape itself. Enter the Midwestern lesbian prom that Ashley never had. Here, we’ll recognize the “buckets” we keep each other in and have a queerness competition.
About the Artists
Jon Velez-Jackson is a songwriter, writer and full-time journalist, currently working as a Senior Editor at The Week magazine, which he helped launch in 2001. He is also an avid pro-wrestling aficionado and the band wrestling coach. Larissa Velez-Jackson is a NYC-based choreographer and multi-platform artist. She has presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: Roulette, New Museum of Contemporary Art , Dixon Place, Danspace Project Platform ’10, American Realness Festival ‘11 at Abrons Arts Center, Chocolate Factory Theater ’14 and El Teatro Milagro ’13 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Ashley R.T. Yergens, from Faribault, Minnesota, debuted Is this more ladylike? at the Walker Art Center as a part of the 2014 Choreographers’ Evening in November. Recently, she showed Is this more ladylike?/ A Generic Female Solo as a Volume V, Issue I Current Sessions Artist. Her work is a byproduct of growing up on tater tots and WWE SmackDown, being queer in small town USA, and bonding with blue collars.
Friday, Jul. 31 at 7:30pm
General Admission
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
Students / Seniors
$10
60 minutes
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Credits
Yackez: Smell the Dance
Featuring
Tyler Ashley
Laurie Berg
Antonio Ramos
Jon Velez-Jackson
Larissa Velez-Jackson
Costumes
Claire Fleury and Yackez
Photo Credit
Ian Douglas
Crabs in a Bucket/ Paige is not a Lesbian
Featuring
Ashley R.T. Yergens
Paige Haroldson