Black Coffee + Raw Sugar
Black Coffee + Raw Sugar is an evening of shorts from Black + Brown Chicago movement artists, performers, and dancemakers. This season's edition brings Burlesque, Drag, and poetry to the forefront as artists take on experimentation and vulnerability in their rawest forms.
TICKETS $16-$42
FEATURED PIECES
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Hoochie Mane’s Before The Throne of the Invisible God explores stillness in a spirituality-based movement performance.
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Incantation for Celeste is a short multimedia performance reflecting on the practice of stepping into drag. Specifically honoring the power of its healing properties to undo trauma, of self-discovery and of harnessing vulnerability as means to engage the range of human emotion.
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Sunshine Lombré's Drift is an experience honoring how dance, music, light & visual art can be used to warm, welcome, heal, bless, empower or enchant any space.
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Pearl's Seed is a narrative exploration of the dynamic between the ever-present material and the ecstatic spiritual through neo-burlesque, contemporary and flow arts movement.
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Kasama (comrade). Mahal (beloved). Kasamahal is a body of poems exploring the deep and decisive bonds between comrades. This series of letters pulls us into the moments of shared vulnerability and vision between kasamas — late night planning meetings, shared meals, linked arms at protests, karaoke and dancing. Each letter is an offering, a blessing, a promise, to sustain a radical network of care, love, and solidarity with the masses. These epistolary poems balance loss, nostalgia, and reckonings with hope, joy, and the determination to build a different world.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
L to R: Mane, Campos, Lombré, Loudly, and Aldana.
Hoochie Mane (she/her) is a multidisciplinary troublemaker and drama queen. She began as a student at House of the Lorde in 2022 and has been blazing stages since, performing at Nudie Nubies Nationwide, SoHo House, and Teaser Festival in New Orleans. When she’s not performing, Hoochie Mane can be found writing poetry, sitting by Lake Michigan, or laughing at dad jokes.
Ále Campos (they/them, b. 1994, Los Angeles, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist and performance maker whose elastic studio practice is anchored in the vernacular of drag and their persona, ‘Celeste’. They generate live performance works that are often rhapsodic and mediated by technology, involving or unfolding into the mediums of sculpture, sound, text, video and installation. Drag is the lens through which they consider performance making: they consider the stage and its borders, the malleability of the gaze, how to de/construct an image, the various states of in/visibility and how to handle time. www.ale-campos.com
Chicago native Sunshine Lombré (she/her) is a dancer & poet who specializes in expressing sensuality & emotional authenticity through her words & movements. Also known as the sweet sultry seductress bringing heat to your skies and your thighs.
Symone Loudly (she/they) is a burlesque performer, flow artist, and lover of music & dance.
Christian Aldana (they/she) is the author of The Water We Swim In (Sampaguita Press, 2023) They are a Filipinx artist, educator, and community organizer based in Chicago. Christian founded Luya, a poetry organization that centers the voices of BIPOC.