La MaMa’s SQUIRTS | June 4-7
Featuring:
Lady Bunny • Chiquitita • RuAfza • LaWhore Vagistan • Bijli • Mei Ann Teo •
Deepali Zeer
with tributes to
Agosto Machado and Diana Oh / ZaZa D
Additional guests and artists TBA
ABOUT
The queer intergenerational performance festival’s 13th annual edition will take place in a reflective, silvery chrome expanse fondly referred to as the Memory Palace: a space for reflection, remembrance, glitz, and gab!
SCHEDULE
THURSDAY
JUNE 4, 7:30PM
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ACT 1 | Chiquitita
Performing an excerpt of Cecilia Gentili’s Red Ink
ACT 2 | chiquitita & Lady Bunny
A conversation between Chiqui and Lady Bunny.
FRIDAY
JUNE 5, 7:30PM
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ACT 1 | “show, girl”
“Show, Girl” created by and starring RuAfza, featuring Isaiah Flores, Kalani Perez, Makinrola Orafidiya, Paridhi Chawla, and drag mother LaWhore Vagistan. Music by Jaan-e-Haseena
ACT 2 | RUAFZA, LAWHORE, AND Bijli
A mother daughter dialogue between RuAfza and LaWhore, and a performance by special guest Bijli
SATURDAY
JUNE 6, 7:30PM
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REMEMBERING AGOSTO
A night honoring the legend and dear friend to La MaMa, Agosto Machado. With talks and tribute performances.
SUNDAY
JUNE 7, 5:30PM
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A Night for zaza
A sparkly conversation with Mei Ann Teo,
a reading of “My H8 Letter to the Great American Theater” by ZaZa D / Diana Oh,
with a closing offering by Deepali Zeer
Credits
SQUIRTS Creative Director – Paris Alexander
SQUIRTS Producer – Buffy Sierra
Stage manager – Ife Olujobi
Promo Imagery shot on location at C’mon Everybody, by MTHR TRSA, concept and art direction by Paris, modeled by Crackhead Barney and Justice Smith
Funded, in part, by
The Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust
BIOS
Paris Alexander is a visual performance artist, storyteller, curator, and conjurer. They have directed La MaMa’s SQUIRTS since 2020. They believe that looking back helps you go forth. They have done, admittedly, a number of tribute shows and revivals of queer works lost to time- they have lip synced their late grandmother’s voice in a song pleading Papa Legba to open the gates to the spirit world, put up an installation of their late mom’s ephemera and mementos in a house on Governor’s Island with Forest For Trees Collective, and used a flashlight in place of a spirit in a number of numbers past. Through SQUIRTS and Visual AIDS (separately) they have done archival research and created one night only revivals of plays by members of The Blacklips Performance Cult. From 2021-2025, with Voxigma Lo and Julie J, they led Sylvester- an afro/retro futurist experimental drag show at Purgatory, BK.
Recent Credits: Actor in “Down & Out” by Ife Olujobi, Directed by Garrett Allen. Conceived and performed archival drag video pieces for “Life is Drag” by Rachel Rampleman, Produced by SoMad. A gogo dancer for a revival of Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ “Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform)” at Hauser and Wirth, a dancer in a revamp of Tyler Ashley’s 2014 dance piece “Kidnap Me”, now called “Don’t Kidnap Us” at QNCC in May. — IG : @parisssssssssssssssssss
One of their favorite quotes by La MaMa’s founder Ellen Stewart:
“The Is is the Was, and the Was is the Is.”
Buffy Sierra is a New York City-based artist and performer whose experimental work slips promiscuously between disciplines. A performance artist, dancer, choreographer, musician, producer, visual artist, writer, and curator, her live and recorded works of art are visceral and haunting. She creates ecstatic experiences that synthesize sex, death, divinity, horror, beauty, and technology through her transgressive transfeminist lens. She is currently producing an electronic album algorithmically composed using the medical data of her own transition. Buffy is a resident artist and company member with the Great Jones Repertory Company at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, Producer for La MaMa’s SQUIRTS: Generations of Queer Performance, Co-Producer for an experimental performance series called HOLE PICS, Event Coordinator at Creative Time, and an editor for Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She has previously produced events and programs with The NYC Trans Oral History Project, The Park Avenue Armory, BOFFO Performance Festival Fire Island, and many individual artists. @buffysierra | buffysierra.com
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