Anna Caffarelli and Crimson Moeller are two queer dance artists that both use they/she pronouns. They graduated with BFAs in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts in 2022 and have been working as a choreography and performance contemporary dance couple ever since. Last summer they choreographed and performed at the Agropoli Danza Festival in Southern Italy and the WADE Into Activism Festival in NYC, creating dance activism pieces about queer representation and gender-based violence issues. When making work together, Crimson Moeller often creates an original sound score and costumes for the piece, and Anna Caffarelli contributes writing and program design. They are currently in the beginning stages of making a dance collective based in Chicago. Anna Caffarelli comes from a contemporary and improvisational based background with a choreographic interest in the shifting power dynamics of human relationships. Crimson Moeller finds her roots in Ballet and the Seattle grunge scene and creates work that exists in an alternate universe saturated with dreamy rebellion. As a collaboration, they create from a queer, gender-nonconforming, feminine perspective, and draw in audiences through their relational and aesthetic story-telling.

Costumes by Crimson Moeller and Anna Caffarelli , Side by Side is informed by our relationship as a long term queer couple. We explore the act of experiencing life side by side, consistently taking in the same set of information and stimuli on parallel life tracks and how this coexistence produces intense feelings of mundanity, interconnectedness, conflict, and euphoria.

Marco Pizano is a queer, Chicago based choreographer/performer with a post-modern, North American aesthetic in movement. They have trained in techniques such as Cunningham, Ballet, and Vogue Femme. They focus on art that centers on the American LGBTQ experience; specifically queer nightlife, vogue aesthetics, drag, poetry, film and how these medians intersect and cross pollinate. Pizano holds a BFA in Dance from Columbia College Chicago.They have choreographed for New Dances 2022 and have participated in the one hour dance project for project bound dance. They currently are exploring the art median of drag heavily as the character Marco With A Z where they have performed at places such as Berlin Nightclub and Charlies Chicago along with hosting shows in a residency at Textured Dance Studio and Bourbon on Division. They are excited to continue exploration and merging of different queer artforms.

Music:, American Beauty Theme by Michele Garrett, Elements of Elevator by Koppi Mizrahi, Poetry:, Nightstand With Roses by Jody Zorgdrager

Adeline “A” Else and Isabella Limosnero are two artists who share synonymous artistic visions and values: to create from a place of passion, benevolence, and authenticity. They both primarily create art through the lens of movement, but find inspiration through visual art, technology, production, human experience, nature, textiles, and sound. They collectively find peace in stillness and exploration through chaos. As they understand themselves, they collaborate to create meaningful art.

Lucas Greeff (ze/he/they) is a dancer, choreographer, and circus artist whose work focuses on expanding the scope of queer & neurodivergent performance, engaging inherent energies, and challenging physical extremity through movement experiment. Luke received their BA in Theatre from Florida State University, where ze performed and worked for the FSU School of Dance. Luke’s choreographic works include Missile Kid, Bo(ix)y(e) Division, Carnal Inferno, Spectrum, and the Trapping Butterflies Project (artists against domestic violence). Former dancer for St. Petersburg Ballet Company and Joel Hall Dancers; Luke’s ongoing artistic affiliations include Yes Ma’am Circus, Reminiscent Circus, Lucid Banter Project, Synapse Arts, Kenwood School of Ballet, Aloft Circus Arts, and Dance Avondale. Luke is the co-founder and co-director of Such Creatures, and leads movement practices tailored for queer and neurodivergent movers of all ages. Learn more by following andro_x_alien on instagram., Formed in 2020, Such Creatures supports the collective investigations of Ashaand Simone and Luke Greeff, two Trans & Gender Non-conforming movement artists invested in the exploration of inherent energetic systems, expanding the narrative surrounding queer and neurodivergent movement in the process. Such Creatures employs a broad spectrum of movement (including contemporary dance, acrobatics, and aerial arts) in the interest of finding various extensions of the self, presented to audiences in multidisciplinary experiences with a commitment to both mental and physical accessibility and safety. The work of Such Creatures can be defined by the phrase: “Trans Audacity.”

Program Note: "In the face of extermination, say f*ck you" - Gerard Way, Content Warning: This piece contains mention of anti-LGBTQIA+ events and language that may be distressing or harmful for some viewers. , Instagram: @such_creatures, Choreographer: Luke Greeff, Lead Collaborator: Ashaand Simone, Sound Design: Luke Greeff, Video Design: Luke Greeff, Sound Credits: Waterparks; CBS News: Chase Strangio, "Missile News" sources: them., CBS News, Vice News, Space Partners: Aloft Circus Arts, Dance Avondale

Ashton Bauer (they/them) is a dance maker and visual artist located in Chicago, IL. Ashton is passionate about facilitating and creating equitable movement encounters, whether it is through their creative process or instructional teaching, Ashton believes that dance is the most intrinsically human form of art and that it’s power for connection surpasses language. They have a passion for assisting people in developing a mind-body connection through yoga and dance. When Ashton is not instructing one of their in school residencies, they are likely painting, planning their next travel escapades, or sending time with their dog, Maverick. , ---, briar darling (they/fae/she) is a composer, cellist, and sound designer currently based in Urbana, IL. her primary aesthetic interest is exploring electroacoustic systems of musicmaking, blending an attitude of striving exploration with a unique and unhinged virtuosity. , as a cellist, she performs genres ranging from baroque and cutting edge contemporary compositions to grindcore and avant garde improvisation. recently, she has performed with New Music Mosaic, Illinois Modern Ensemble, Sweetmelk, and members of the Bergamot Quartet and JACK Quartet. as a keyboardist and synthesizer player, darling perform as a ringer with the metoric up-and-coming queer cybergrind band, Thotcrime. darling independently produces electroacoustic music under the moniker Monstrosity Complex.

Ibrahim Sabbi is a working dancer, choreographer, teacher, visual artist, filmmaker, and creative mind. A native of Chicago, he is a BFA graduate from the Department of Dance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sabbi is currently on his second year as a company member dancing with Chicago Dance Crash. He regularly hosts weekly open improv/freestyle dance sessions under a collective name called New Godz. Ibrahim has choreographed a variety of his own works, including leading an evening-length, improvisational performance for Common Conservatory. He has also produced, directed, choreographed, and edited several dance films.

Alfonso Cervera is a Queer first-generation Mexican American choreographer, performer, educator, curator, and activist. His research and specialization as an independent artist focuses on the conversation between queerness, Ballet Folklorico, and Afro-LatinX social dances in a contemporary auto-biographical embodied experience that he calls Poc-Chuc. Poc-Chuc, an emerging and inclusive dance technique developed by Cervera, weaves these techniques as a pedagogical tool to adhere to the current times and to create representation for marginalized communities., Elliot Reza Emadian is a gender-nonconforming interdisciplinary artist, teacher, and scholar. Their work occurs in the intersection of dance and choreography, video art and editing, sound and music, light and photography, and popular culture.

TightUs is a Queer entertainer. He went to Columbia College Chicago in 2012 and graduated in 2016 with a degree in Acting and undeclared minor in Dance. Ever since they have been on a journey to empower other Queer artists who have been taught to feel ashamed of themselves. In 2019, he decided to join a performance collective titled “Haus Of Everything” as a dancer, creative producer and administrative assistant for the company. They have inspired him to pursue his long time passion of becoming a recording artist. TightUs plans on becoming the next best entertainer., Hasaan Honus is an artist, choreographer, composer and creative director. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, Hasaan now lives in Chicago where he is a co-founder of the Haus Of Everything. Also a part of the queer community, Hasaan plans to create equal opportunities for all artists of all ages, races, and backgrounds.

Produced by TightUs, Creative Directed by TightUs & Hassan, Choreography by Hasaan , Body Movement by TightUs