Photo: Aiano Nakagawa by Lydia Daniller - FROLIC 2019
september 11th - 20th, 2020
the second annual
A week-long celebration of queer dance artists with free workshops, facilitated conversations, showings, and performances featuring new commissioned work from
Bay Area LGBTQ+ choreographers.
Cynthia Ling Lee by Darial Sneed
Photos of 2019 QDF artists by Lydia Daniller
Highlighting the artistic work and issues on the minds of the queer, trans and gender-nonconforming dance community in the East Bay, QUEERING DANCE aims to present dance through a queer lens, elevating the work and diverse voices of local LGBTQ+ movement artists from all backgrounds.
Applicants will be selected by a panel of artists who presented work at the 2019 Queering Dance Festival.
Artists can apply in one or both categories:
1) Program A: 7 artists presenting a 5-7 minute piece. Artists receive a commissioning stipend of $300.
2) Program B: 3 artists presenting a 20 minute piece. Artists receive a commissioning stipend of $1000.
Application Timeline:
Applications Open: Monday, February 3rd
Applications Due: Friday, March 6th at 11:59pm
Selections Announced: Monday, April 6th
**New this year, up three spots are available for out-of-town artists (please note, housing and travel stipends are not available).
Performance Dates & Times:
Saturday, September 19
Program A @ 6pm
Program B @ 8pm
Sunday, September 20
Program B @ 6pm
Program A @ 8pm
Tech Dates & Times:
Cue to Cue: Wednesday, Sept 16 or Thursday, Sept 17
Dress Rehearsal (all called): Friday, Sept 18
Location:
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, 339 11th St., Richmond, CA
EBCPA is a beautiful, recently upgraded proscenium theater with 120 seats and a full professional lighting and sound capabilities. It is fully wheelchair-accessible, and 5 blocks from the Richmond BART, and a 20 minute direct BART ride from 19th St. station in Downtown Oakland.
Between February 3rd and February 28th, Artistic Director Jill Randall can review any drafts of applications and offer feedback. (Jill is not on the selection panel.)
Email Jill at and provide a Google Doc with the draft of your responses and video links. She will review the drafts and offer feedback within a week via email or document comments.
2019's Festival Events
QUEER AS
DAY
Friday, September 13th, 2019
7-10p
FREE!
(kick-off party)
~ drag ~ dance ~
~ films ~ art~
~free food ~ cash bar~
Kel Dae by Meagan McBride
Drag and dance performances by:
~ Kel Dae ~ LOTUS BOY ~ SNJV ~ Mira ~
~ Sissy Slays ~ Pepper Pepper ~ Octavia Rose Hingle ~
Films by:
Raymond Samame
Jules Rezlaff
Nicole Maimon, Kass Friend, Zoe Huey
Art, Books, Community:
Cecilia Dong
Zoe Huey
Scott Duane
CTRL+SHFT Collective
The Pacific Center
ABO Comix
Wheelchair accessible
Single stall all gender restrooms
ON A QUEER DAY
YOU CAN SEE
FOREVER
(free workshops,
panel talk,
artist showings)
Sunday, Sept 15th, 2019
11a - 6p
FREE!
FROLIC
Thursday - Sunday
September 19th - 22nd, 2019
Waterfront Playhouse
2020 4th Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
Map
(six performances by
eleven commissioned artists)
jose e abad by Robbie Sweeney, lights: Grisel Torres
Program A
jose e abad
Jesselito Bie
Audrey Johnson
Melissa Lewis & Malia Byrne
Aiano Nakagawa
pateldanceworks
Program B
Stephanie Hewett
Frances Sedayao
Mark Travis Dance
JanpiStar
Snowflake Towers
Thursday, September 19th
Program A | 8p
Saturday, September 21st
Program A | 5p
Sunday, September 22nd
Program A | 7p*
Friday, September 20th
Program B | 8p
Saturday, September 21st
Program B | 8p
Sunday, September 22nd
Program B | 4p*
If the ticket price is a difficulty, please contact for ushering opportunities
Accessibility
Waterfront Playhouse is a fully wheelchair accessible venue with one single stall ADA all gender restroom.
For blind and visually impaired audience members, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center partners with Gravity Access Services to offer live audio description and haptic access tours for selected performances:
Sunday, September 22 - 4pm - Program B
Sunday, September 22 - 7pm - Program A
Audio description is a live audio track spoken by a professional audio describer to audience members with visual impairments through a wireless headset system.
It provides clear and engaging descriptions of the meaningful visual details of a performance.
Haptic access tours (20-30 minutes) are a live pre-show tour that allows patrons to experience—through touch and their own movement— the space, performers, costumes and objects in addition to key movement elements in the performance.
For more information, to book a spot in a Haptic Access Tour or to reserve a headset please call: 510-654-5921