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Black, Queer, & Here

KST Presents

Curated by sarah huny young

Part of My People 2021

Friday, November 12
7:00pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Pay What Makes You Happy 

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The heat gets turned up with an evening of live performance curated by sarah huny young, based on her recently realized epic queer extravaganza for TQ Live at the Carnegie Museum of Art in September 2021! Get cozy at KST’s Alloy Studios for a more intimate encounter with the Pittsburgh queer performance scene, featuring SUPA’ NXC, Victoria L. Van Cartier, Trevor C. Miles and Juiced Up Joey!


AND DON’T MISS THESE OTHER MY PEOPLE EVENTS:

Love and Relationships: a Screening and Conversation
with Kyle Abraham, Brian Broome, Akasha L. Van Cartier, Staycee Pearl, and sarah huny young

Wednesday, November 10
8:00pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Pay What Makes You Happy 

My People begins on Wednesday, November 10, the city of Pittsburgh’s official Kyle Abraham Day, and celebrates the art of Abraham with an in-person screening of a new dance film. Set to a tender soundtrack the film was created by Abraham in collaboration with the dancers of his contemporary dance company A.I.M by Kyle Abraham and filmmaker Dehanza Rogers. The 30-minute piece features performances from Abraham, Tamisha A. Guy, Keerati Jinakunwiphat, Claude “CJ” Johnson, Catherine Kirk, Jae Neal, Donovan Reed and Gianna Theodore.

The film screening is followed by a panel discussion with Abraham and Pittsburgh based artists including Brian Broome, Staycee Pearl, and sarah huny young. Centered around queer relationships in Pittsburgh, the conversation will explore self love, Black love and the multiplicity of ways love is exchanged between queer folx and across race.

Photo Credit: Gianna Theodore


Get Ur Spades On: An Immersive Card Playing Experience

Thursday, November 11
7:00pm – 10:00pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Pay What Makes You Happy 

Calling all Spades players! Come out and get into the game at KST’s first spades tournament, led by Trini Massie! Sign up with a partner in advance or at the door and play the night away for prizes including tickets to My People’s Friday and Saturday night performances!


Community Class
with Kyle Abraham 

Friday, November 12
10:00am – 12:00pm

KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Pay What Makes You Happy 
Proof of Vaccine + Masks Required

Classes taught by A.I.M emphasize four of the company’s core movement values: exploration, musicality, abandonment, and intuition. The opening warm-up sequence focuses on the fluidity of the spine, articulation, and core body strengthening; and then builds up to challenging, creative and invigorating phrase work. Students experience a personalized postmodern movement vocabulary full of intricate gestures and signature A.I.M moves.

Credit: A.I.M by Kyle Abraham, Photo by Alice Chacon.


A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
An Untitled Love 
Presented by Pittsburgh Dance Council in partnership with Kelly Strayhorn Theater 

Saturday, November 13
8:00 pm

Byham Theater | 101 6th Street

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust COVID-19 policies 

An Untitled Love is Kyle Abraham’s newest evening-length work. Drawing from the catalogue of Grammy Award-winning R&B legend D’Angelo, this creative exaltation pays homage to the complexities of self love and the Black love, while serving as a thumping mixtape celebrating our culture, family, and community. Led by Artistic Director and Pittsburgh native Kyle Abraham, whose accolades include being named a 2013 MacArthur Fellow and 2016 Doris Duke recipient, A.I.M by Kyle Abraham creates work that is galvanized by Black history and culture, and characterized by a sensual and provocative vocabulary that is informed by a vital blend of artistic influences. 

Photo by Carrie Schneider

 

 

 

sarah huny young is an award-winning creative director and visual artist primarily documenting and exalting Black womanhood and queer communities through portraiture and video. Framing her subjects as collaborators, she often shoots on-location across the country in personal, intimate spaces of the subject’s choosing. Her work has been featured in Pittsburgh City Paper, New York Magazine, and The New York Times. huny received the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant in 2016 and 2020 to execute AMERICAN WOMAN, a portrait and documentary series about Black American women, and was named one of the most influential African-Americans of 2017 by The Root (“The Root 100”); “Who’s Next in Art” 2018 by The Incline; and one of “12 People to Meet in Pittsburgh 2018” by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is also the 2020 recipient of a “Best in Pittsburgh” award, via Pittsburgh City Paper, for co-founding the Pittsburgh Artists Emergency Fund to assist gig workers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The SUPA duo of Naheen and Xopher began in the Fall of 2020 during the height of the COVID-9 Pandemic. The best friends/ colleagues would later debut as SUPA’ N x C in Spring of 2021 with work-in-progress showings at True T PGH, local PRIDE concerts, night clubs, and private parties in Pittsburgh.

Accompanied by DJ Dezmanian who adds a live flare to the audio compositions, SUPA’ N x C’s sound pulls from the gritty roots of underground Ballroom community with influences of Pop, Folk, tied together through an organic blend of Hip Hop and Trinidadian culture. Their first single release, Shots, was one of the first collaborative songs written in 2020 during their on-going creative residency at True T Studios. Shots has since been performed throughout the city of Pittsburgh by underground DJ’s and even live at the Carnegie Museum of Art as part of Trans Q LIVE.

Since Summer of 2021. SUPA’ N x C have been strategically working on the release of their currently untitled debut mixtape. SUPA’ N x C and Dezmanian are avid song-writers and currently finalizing music to be released on their debut mixtape Winter of 2021 while continuously seeking new ways to challenge themselves and uplift the LGBT+ community.

 

Trevor C. Miles is a powerhouse teaching artist and performer hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.For over a decade, he has focused his work on underrepresented youth and their narratives. As a solo artist, it has been his mission to tell honest stories through a POC, queer lens. He describes his choreography as both aching and celebratory. Trevor’s solo work deals with identity and escapism. For years, Trevor offered his dance classes free of charge to youth of all ages. In 2013, he was awarded an NAACP Community Service award for his efforts in providing challenged neighborhoods with performing arts. In 2014, Trevor formed his own hand-selected group of dancers to take his storytelling to the next level, Trevor C. Dance Collective. Since then, Trevor has created 20+ unique stage works, premiered a self-created documentary, performed across the country with multiple companies, completed four tours, earned multiple theater residencies, and he has garnered acclaim as a solo artist, being selected to sit on various prestigious grant panels. He is one of Pittsburgh’s most captivating storytellers. From Movement to Media is Trevor’s newest slogan, after launching TrevorCMedia in 2021, a production company that creates art for various demographics. Products include podcasts, literature, stage performances, photography, and videography.Trevor is looking forward to releasing a short dance film with TrevorCMedia soon, snippets of which will be teased at KST’s My People 2021.Trevor plans to continue spreading his energy and aesthetic to the masses. TrevorCDance.com.