Malcolm-x Betts: Falling castles and broken dreams

Malcolm-x Betts, an artist whose work explores embodiment, liberation, and Black imagination, presents an improvisational dance performance. Navigating the architecture of Domino Square, Betts’s work asks: who does this labor serve? This improvisational, somatic offering functions as a portal to honor personal history within a complicated system.

In a series of unfoldings that attempt to reach for otherwise. What is imagined unfolds into a deconstruction of the proposal. An unfurling into the abyss of what is seen, unseen, referenced or imagined at the end of the day everything is broken.

Kat Sotelo: IS THIS BEAUTIFUL OR AM I TIRED?

A chaotic, sequin-drenched birthday spectacular teeters on the edge between glory and failure. Part magic show, part pop concert, Kat Sotelo’s performance strives for transcendence, only to collapse into something softer, stranger, and sadder.

Backup dancers swirl through saccharine doo wop choreography, drifting between syrupy romance and pop trash. Cotton candy spins, cakes wobble, jello quivers in the heat. It is a birthday celebration that is sad but sexy, absurd but sincere. A glittering pageant of futile glory where performers keep trying anyway, chasing the brief electric moment when the crowd believes.

A shared evening of performance curated by Alessandra Gómez.