DANCER | CHOREOGRAPHER | TEACHING ARTIST
SHEBANG!
A Dance Theatre Split Bill in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM & September 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Performance Garage - 1515 Brandywine Street Philadelphia, PA
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Featuring
ZOO! by Grace Yi-Li Tong
&
You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today by Heather Dutton


The Artists
You're Actually the Last Person I Wanted to See Today
by Heather Dutton
“You’re Actually The Last Person I Wanted To See Today” is a dance theater piece/slumber party/diary entry/place to honor and grieve our collective and individual teenage girlhood(s) through a queer lens. What were the stories we told ourselves to make sense of our queerness before we came to know it? How do we tell those stories now? From first kisses with boys that disgusted us (sorry) to “girl crushes” on our besties, the work is a collage of memories, fantasies, and worst kept secrets.
Performed: July 2025 at the American Dance Festival (informal) & April 2025 at Flushing Town Hall
Created with support from Mare Nostrum Elements Emerging Choreographers Series & American Dance Festival's International Choreographers Residency, as well as support from individual contributors.
ZOO!
by Grace Yi-Li Tong
ZOO! is a fun and feral illumination of memory, charade, and the unsaid in the Asian-American experience. A cacophony of “facedance”, voice, light, and systems of play, ZOO! is a recess fantasy woven from American nostalgia and diasporic dreams. ZOO! is a part of a research project first initiated in October 2022 at Art Cake (Brooklyn, NY), and performed in its entirety at Art Cake, Arts on Site, and Flushing Town Hall.
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Performed: February 2023 at Arts on Site, New York, NY & March 2024 at Flushing Town Hall, Queens, NY.
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Created with the support of MNE’s Emerging Choreographer Series, Flushing Town Hall Art Cake Dance Series, Arts on Site, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant Program, Mark Morris Dance Center SharedSpace, and other individual contributors.