About the Pop Up
Giving Life: a queer transfuturist performance pop-up is about identity and rebirth.
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Using only visual storytelling, dance and acrobatics, this award-winning duo show explores the experience of growing up transgender in an Asian American immigrant household, and the connection between siblings each navigating their own relationship to gender. Winner of multiple Best of Fringe awards and named ‘groundbreaking work’ by FringeReview. ‘It’s a testament to how well-crafted this show is that it can be so specific and yet feel so universal at the same time’ (Matthew Palm, Orlando Sentinel). Created by Genie Cartier, Landyn Endo and Os Roxas. Produced by Flying Rabbit Circus. Performed by Landyn Endo and Kapi Lee.
Recommended for ages 12 & up.
A staged reading of:
lupe finds me in the garden of dreams
by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel | directed by Adin Walker
Estrella, a young trans playwright, is at a spiritual crossroads. She becomes the Old Hollywood actress Lupe Velez on the last night of her life to find the answers to her questions, and the two people who hold them are Anna May Wong and Gary Cooper, her lifetime’s greatest relationships. LUPE FINDS ME IN THE GARDEN OF DREAMS spans years in cinematic history to raise the question: what are the costs to being a queer artist of color in today’s industry, and what would happen if we found a way of creating ourselves and our work outside of it?
Landyn Endo (they/he) is a queer, transmasculine-of-center actor, dancer and circus performer, specializing in aerial/acrobatics. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a double major in Dance and Drama. Since graduating, he has enjoyed dancing professionally in LA and on tour with Multiplex Dance Company, helping to found the West Hollywood Dance Festival. He also had the opportunity to perform in Europe with DTM2 Improvisational Ensemble, Off-Broadway in NYC, and in Japan in “Dreaming Forward,” an artistic collaboration with choreographer Motoko Hirayama. Landyn is a co-founder of Flying Rabbit Circus and a proud member of People’s Circus Theatre, and teaches at the San Francisco Circus Center and VRV3.
Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel (she/her) is a Guatemalan playwright and educator, born in Guatemala City and based in Brooklyn. Her works are spiritual, hyper-theatrical narratives that give Black and Brown Queer+ Trans voices a space to interrogate core wounds and offer them a path towards healing.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
