Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves

Three dancers performing beneath a disco ball in Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves.
Three dancers holding hands during a trio in Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves.
Six performers embracing and kissing in Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves.
Joseph Stevens performing under stage lighting in Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves.
Three performers standing together in Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves.
Ensemble choreography from Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves by J'Sun Howard and Bernard Brown
Seven dancers dancing beneath a clothesline in Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves by J'Sun Howard and Bernard Brown

Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves is a dance-theater work set within a fictional Black gay bar, a site of gathering, pleasure, and survival. Drawing on Sylvester, the disco era, humor, and partner dancing, the work expands ideas of masculinity, Blackness, and queerness beyond fixed forms. Moving through nostalgia and play, it honors a lineage of connection while imagining modes of being together that remain fluid, tender, and alive.

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Co-Developers: Bernard Brown and J'Sun Howard
Performers: Damon Green,  Dedrick "D. Banks" Gray, Malachi Middleton, Charles "Chaz" Pierson, Glenn Rodrighuez, Alejandro Perez, John Origines Santos, Joseph Stevens, John “Spirit” Swapshire, and Ramón Vargas
Sound: DeFacto X
Costumes: Arrington Flemming
Photography: Angel Origgi

Sissies: Something Perfect Between Ourselves is a living work with multiple iterations and casts.

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