Boys Like Us
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Date & Time
Thu, Oct 24 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Fri, Oct 25 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Sat, Oct 26 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Address (map)
552 University Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Venue (website)
Hatlen Theater
Boys Like Us is an evening-length dance piece that reflects on the process of coming-of-age and ‘coming out’ as a gay/queer person. Through pedestrian movement, improvisation, and intimate/physical interaction, the dance resonates on a human need for touch, the exploration of new and burgeoning sexual expression, and the process of forming and evolving identity. Drawing from my own experiences in these processes, while in conversation with the dancers about their own positionality and experiences, Boys Like Us tries to abstractly reflect through embodied expression, the physical and emotional implications of gender policing, and socially limited access to one another as gay/queer men/people.
Featuring Sergio Barrientos, Andrew Bauer, Guillermo Castro, Elijah Hahn-Smith, EzraNolan Spencer, and Colin Sneddon, this iteration of Boys Like Us is an expansion of the original duet version developed with Sam Wentz and Ryan Walker Page which had its premiere at Highways Performance Space in August 2018. With more time for development and a larger group of dancers, the work expands upon the original with an even more multi-faceted expression of the very different experience, dynamics, and process of coming out and self-actualization.
This premiere performance is made possible by funding from the UCSB Academic Senate Faculty Research Grant.
Pre-show Panel Discussion – Oct. 24/Post-show Q&A – Oct. 25