beat-ho presents Thrust

Annie Danger, Mistress of Ceremonies for beat-ho's "Thrust"

Tuesday, May 3rd.
$5-$10 sliding scale.
12 Galaxies
2565 Mission

Thrust will be a politically charged Cabaret featuring local artists and agitators. From Duran Ruiz's "ghetto physics" to Zee Boudreaux's multimedia BuTo dance piece, this evening will thrust tied up sex, culture, and politics out of current suffocating restraints.

Performers bios to be posted:

Annie Danger Bio

Annie Danger is a lot of things. She is a maker and a show-off and a tranny and a performer. She is delighted to be part of these hookerish proceedings and would like to extend her love to everyone who knows how to work it and everyone who struggles to.

Duran Ruiz Bio
Duran Ruiz is a long time activist and artist, formerly incarcerated by California Department of Corrections where she served residency for twelve years for "crimes of consent." A veteran heroin user and sex worker, Duran has presented on many panels including along with members of the Coalition on Homelessness, Center for Juvenile Justice, COYOTE, Mission Agenda and the Santa Cruz Conference on Safety and Health Intervention. She has been involved with numerous street protests and demonstrations on issues including women's safety,criminalization/discrimination, homelessness/tenants rights and human rights. Duran wrote and performed her work in "On A Mission" an ensemble theater piece, produced by Intersection for the Arts, funded by San Francisco Arts Council. She is currently concentrating on painting and writing. In 1999 she received the "Notable Woman Who Gives Back Award "In recognition of commitment and fight against human suffering in the AIDS pandemic" presented by the Black Repertory Group, playwright-in-residence Immani Harrington, and Women's Positive Legal Action Network.

Zee

Bay area resident for 13 years. Studied and performed butoh with Hiroko and Koichi Tamano of Harupin Ha Butoh Dance Company. Currently working toward completing a degree in fine and performative art at California College of the Arts. Zee's visual and performative work investigates the degradation of the queer body related to the commodification of desire- the body as product. He currently works at St. James Infirmary and lives at CounterPULSE a center for art and activism. He can be reached at intermediary@yahoo.com piece info- work in progress looking at male on male objectification (the male on male gaze) sexual compulsion-the replacement of love and intimacy with sex working title: disappointment is a fulltime job.

Qilo Kinetichore

Qilo Kinetichore grew up immersed in the contradiction between creative movement ís physicality and religious anti-materialism. Qilo left the church, got a dance degree, and moved to Oakland. Ze continues to challenge societal expectations on local stages- at Dance Mission and the Jon Sims Center- as well as in venues around the US and British Columbia. Gender presentation, play piercing, water politics, and the Fibonacci sequence are all fair game. Qilo also likes to invite audiences to non-traditional performance spaces, from labor halls and living rooms to working train yards. Since 2002, ze has collaborated with Andrea del Moral. As the Dishwater Deviants, the two work with Midwestern and European performance artists to remix the neglected possibilities of dance / theater. This project emerged from the East Bay ís underground of trashy queer cabarets and brings warehouse-space vitality, irreverence, and sharp social commentary to traditional black box theaters. Recently, through experiments with typewriter feedback loops and quirky improvisations, Qilo has complemented hir collaborations with solo ventures that disrupt stage norms and rupture gender packaging. Qilo currently works as a gardener and a Dom.

DJ Reagonomixxx

DJ Reagonomixxx has electrified queer dance floors in clubs such as Macho & MannyShack while he's also been a roaming electro DJ for bay area queer events throughout the past five years. He's moved to the country to be a farmer and is searching for additional work in Sonoma. Contact him at crustyfag@hotmail.com

For further info, email swfest@bayswan.org or call 415-751-1659