Risk/Reward Festival Mainstage

In our Festival Mainstage we’ll be exploring histories of identity with festival newcomers Jordan Isadore, looking back at his upbringing through dance with you look good, bud, and Joe Kye, setting his grandfather’s history to a fusion of Jazz and Korean sounds in Love and Lineage.

From Seattle, we’ll be joined by artists inspired by experimental works of the past as strategies for modern resistance. Fox Whitney and his performers will meditate on an image of Yvonne Rainier’s landmark protest dance Trio A With Flags to present NOT TRIO A, an experimental performance blending dance, drag, and live music. Meanwhile, The Bonnies (Jenny Peterson and Kaitlin McCarthy) will get intimate with cucumbers in Picklehole, a dance-theater homage to the Czech New Wave film Daisies.

And finally, festival-favorite ILVS STRAUSS will return for the fourth time in Risk/Reward history to put on a green bunny mask and go down a musical rabbit hole with the help of dueling English/Spanish closed-captioning, in ñ (enye).