OUT
Ray Young (UK)
- Sat Feb 8 9PM
- Sun Feb 9 5PM
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Under a charged nightclub haze, two performers move with electric intimacy, flirting, teasing, shape-shifting. Immersed in the bittersweet fragrance of oranges, OUT is a defiant challenge to the status quo that bravely carves out a new kind of space, reclaiming and celebrating our queer future.
It’s about embodying authenticity, a resistance against homophobia and transphobia that embraces various political and cultural inspirations such as voguing, dancehall and Black liberation. The performers dance in solidarity alongside global 2SLGBTQIA+ movements, breaking down violent histories to imagine something new. Something liberated. Something delicious.
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Artist Bio
Ray Young
Ray Young is an award winning trans-disciplinary performance artist, theatre maker, director and writer. Their practice exists at the boundaries of activism, queerness, race and neuro-diversity, holding space for those at the intersection of multiple identities, through collaboration and resistance to traditional form. In recent years Ray’s work has focussed on using their art to foster notions of rest, care and recovery, and what it means to both create and receive art as a neurodivergent person, considering a slower pace, and stepping outside of the capitalist ideologies of production. They are keen to explore how to build a practice that is more holistic both in terms of the whole self, and in drawing together art, nature and technology. Their work has been presented widely across the UK and internationally – including Portland, Geneva, Mexico City, Skopje and Vienna.
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Venue
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver
Showtimes
- February 8: 9PM
- February 9: 5PM
Post-show talkback: Feb 9
Content Advisory
Flashing lights, haze, slurs used against LGBTQ+ people
Tickets
Single tickets: $39
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Credits
Creator & Director Ray Young Assistant Director Esme Allman Performers + Additional Devising Azara Meghie & Bambi Phillips Jordan Producer Steph Be with Jenna Mason Production Manager Anna Smith 2024 Production Movement Director Nandi Bhebhe Movement Consultant Nussatari Lighting Design Nao Nagai Set Design Naomi Kuyck-Cohen Sound Design Naomi Jackson Sound Engineer Vincent Robinson Costume Design Mia Maxwell Assistant Costume Designer Kyara Chapman Production Dramatherapist Wabriya King Casting Consultant Ri McDaid-Wren Access Assistants Mable Cable & Francis Slip Original Co-Creator and Performer Dwayne Antony 2019-20 Performer and Additional Devising Marikiscrycrycry Original Outside Eye Joseph Mercier Original Dramaturgical Support Martin Hargreaves
The 2024 staging of the work has been supported by Cambridge Junction, Sadler’s Wells and Arts Council England.
Supported by Here & Now with investment from Arts Council England.