“An Evening of Odditease” returns to the 33rd annual Festival of New Dance as an “Odditeaser” featuring 2-3 unique burlesque and contemporary-burlesque adjacent body-centered movement-based works.
“Odditeaser”–festival favourite “An Evening of Odditease” returns in a smaller form but with no loss of tease! (un)Done is a contemporary-burlesque dance performance filled with parody and play. Traditionally, duets between “male” and “female” bodies are perceived as romantic; however, this dance illuminates different dynamics like friendship, comedy and connection with a live audience. Come watch, laugh, and engage! Walang Hiya is a long-form 20 minute burlesque performance that focuses on Filipina sexuality, colonialism, decolonizing, and transcendence-contrasting cultural expectations with sex positivity and pleasure. It integrates traditional Filipino costuming, dance, and theatrics. Most spectacularly, Walang Hiya incorporates the death-defying Filipino folk dance of Tinikling (bamboo pole dancing) into the eroticism of intuitive sensual dance, leaving the audience at the edge of their seats throughout.