QTPOCALYPSE 2021
ARTISTS AND BIOS
SevanKelee Boult, a Bay Area poet teams up with her cousin virtuoso guitarist “Stutta Luv” Wellington Draper to create Me and My Cousin. This duo brings a mix of poetry, rock, and blues in honor of their Grandfather Blues Guitarist Louranzie “Sonny Boy” Holmes Sr. Playing together since high school, their latest performance at The Starry Plough (Berkeley,CA) in 2019, they are excited to share at SafeHouse Arts.
Tachíria Flamenco (formerly Carolé Acuña) is the 5th generation Flamenco & Spanish dancer in a gitano family legacy, modern dancer, actor, singer, stand-up comedian, percussionist, choreographer, writer. She is a survivor of rape domestic violence, cancer, is Yaqui (Native American) and a mixed race Afro Latinx, soul sexual, two spirit, became a professional dancer at 14, continues to perform internationally, is on her PHD journey and has a persian cat named Duende!
A duo comprised of Bay Area childhood friends, Kevin Wong and Matthew Ka Git Wong explore their intimate long friendship through improvisation, sounds, dance, narratives, and memories. They started their collaboration in the SAFEhouse Arts 2019 AIRSPACE Residency and participated in the 2021 West Wave Festival. Trained in experimental approaches to creating material, they utilize childlike curiosity and playfulness to push boundaries on delving into what makes them unique individuals.
They describe their piece as Chinese Opera, Canto-Pop, and Chinglish. As queer millennial gen-z cusp artists, Kevin and Matthew revisit their childhood memories to understand the characteristics that make them Chinese and American. Inspired by Eastern music and dance techniques, they share insight on their present experimental practice.
Sawako Gannon is a freelance dancer based in the San Francisco Bay Area from Japan. Upon moving to San Francisco from Tokyo, Gannon graduated with a B.A. in Dance from San Francisco State University. Gannon trained with Ray Tadio and Cathleen McCarthy, as well as academic instruction from Yutian Wong. She is a sought-after dancer and had the privilege to work with choreographers such as Anna Harris’s Driven Arts Collective, Jennifer Gerry, Joselyn Reyes, Joe Landini’s dog+pony, Jesselito Bie’s STEAMROLLER Dance Company, Raissa Simpson’s PUSH Dance Company as a Pathway program dancer, Natasha Adorlee’s Concept o4, and Andrea Salazar’s A Pulso as a guest artist. Gannon is currently rehearsing with David Herrera’s David Herrera Performance Company for the company’s home season in 2022 spring as a company dancer.
About this piece: How did I know that I am “different” than other girls? I stared at naked barbie dolls and wore pants, absolutely NO SKIRT or DRESS. Over time, I learned to visually represent myself out in the public by making my own decision in what to wear. This piece explores fashion/clothing as a tool of self expression that better accommodates one’s identity, based on my childhood experience where I felt absolutely uncomfortable in “girls” clothing.
Snowflake Calvert is a Queer dance artist living in Huichin. She is of Mexican Indigenous heritage and Sephardic ancestry. Her most current work is the collaborations of “Seeds and Sequins” with Europa Grace, and also The TRY project premiering in November 2021.
Following the performance on November 20th, Snowflake Calvert will be hosting a private workshop for movement research. The participants of the workshop will participate in a panel sharing their experiences, which will be filmed and available to the public on the SAFEhouse Arts website.
What does the body’s movement look and feel like to release the fascia in former Zionist Jewish bodies? This anti-Zionist movement research will be exploring how Zionism and American Settler Colonialism communicates through the body. The workshop and recorded panel discussion will be with a small select group of Jewish academics and artists. Snowflake will guide the workshop’s self exploration of the body’s own movement. The virtual recorded panel will discuss what came up for participants through this process, articulating answers to the workshop questions, and how this can be used as a tool for anti-colonialism in the daily lives of colonial settlers on Turtle Island (North America).