GEMINI stars {[Real vloggers <3 & (self-identify)] + [who decides on banning people from coming out (?)]}
Pioneers Go East Collective presents GEMINI stars {[Real vloggers ♥ & (self-identify)] + [who decides on banning people from coming out (?)]}
A new theatre and media work by Pioneers Go East Collective and directed by Gian Marco Lo Forte. The work is based on LGBQT vloggers coming out on YouTube, interwoven with the performers’ personal narratives of growing up as Queer teens. The work addresses issues of self-acceptance and self-identity vs gay bashing on social media…a funny and sour performance reflecting on what the LGBQT community has achieved (or not) using social media…
The artists involved include millennial queer artists who you may have seen this past year at American Realness, La MaMa Puppet Fest, Jack and more: Jose Rivera (singer, dancer, social media performer & storyteller), Rebecca Hidalgo (dancer), John Gutierrez (dancer & storyteller), Paris Alexander (storyteller), Ryan Leach (social media performer & storyteller), Julia Dobner- Pereira (co-writer, singer & storyteller) & Generation X artists: Gian Marco Lo Forte (director/ writer/ design/ storyteller) and Daniel Diaz (dancer & storyteller).
For the in progress showing at !?:New Works, Pioneers Go East Collective would like to present 25 minutes of personal narratives, songs and dance that celebrate Queer identity.