Fox Whitney
NOT TRIO A
Dance-As-Protest

In this performance, Fox and his artistic collaborators will revisit TRIO A WITH FLAGS by Yvonne Rainer – a key moment in the history of dance-as-protest– and shift the lens to queer and trans identities, exploring how the body can be both a site of resistance and of self-expression, and how movement can be a strategy for defiance. The performance will open with a direct reference to Rainer’s photograph that is then infused through movement (both physical and political), dance, music and drag to delve into Fox’s own stories and political identity.
NOT TRIO A is an excerpt from Fox’s full-length project LOOK OUT, that will mix autobiography, experimental drag, and the energy of Seattle’s queer nightlife into something that Fox describes as a “love letter to other trans and queer body-based artists and a slightly autobiographical dance adventure.”
More about the artists:
FOX WHITNEY [he/him] is a multi-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of dance, music, film+video, theater, writing and visual art. Fox is obsessed with the surreal nature of transformation, how we identify ourselves and how personal and collective identity is an ever shifting and evolving landscape. His projects center his queer and transgender point of view. He founded the interdisciplinary performance project Gender tender in 2012 and the trans-futurist psych band Light Aloud in 2023 The band grew from his ongoing series of performances MELTED RIOT. Inspired by the stonewall Riots of 1969, MELTED RIOT is a surreal protest song, a queer meditation, a psychedelic research project, a punk prayer.
Fox’s work has been commissioned and produced by the Henry Art Gallery; On the Boards; Velocity Dance Center; Seattle International Dance Festival; Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival and was selected for the inaugural season of Seattle’s Gay City Arts. Light Aloud has played at Trans Pride Seattle, Capitol Hill Block Party and the Seattle Art Fair. He has performed in work by Meg Foley, Will Rawls, keyon gaskin, Morgan Thorson, Andrew Schneider, CommonForm Dance Project, Malic Amalya and Gabrielle Civil. He got his MFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has exhibited his short films and visual art nationally. Fox is also a yoga and meditation teacher, movement teaching artist and arts journalist. He was the Artistic Director of Velocity Dance Center from 2020-2022. www.foxwhitney.com
WILL COURTNEY [all pronouns] is a multifaceted transgender artist, Light Aloud band member and Gender Tender performance project all-star. She was the first performer Fox invited to dance with him for Gender Tender research and development when it all started in 2012. Will has been a lead performer for many GT projects and after the first few years of performing began to expand his role in GT working with Fox as an artistic consultant, rehearsal director and producer. As a performance duo, Fox and Will gleefully mine the blurry line separating their longstanding friendship and their very queer performance chemistry.
VLADA KREMONOVIĆ (she/her), aka Sasha Sobbing, is a trans, immigrant artist working in performance, video, nightlife/drag, and arts administration. Originally from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Vlada has been making works in Seattle since 2017. Descending from a long lineage of Bosnian peasants, Vlada’s art rejects the elitism of post-modernism while embracing its capacity for performer/audience autonomy, freedom from colonialist/classicist ideals, and creating containers for radical empathy. She’s presented physical and virtual performances locally and inter/nationally in Oregon, California, British Columbia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia. Vlada has collaborated/performed with Fox Whitney since 2020 as part of his Gender Tender and Light Aloud projects. She was a 2023 Seattle City Artist, and was awarded funding from 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and more.
@vlada_kremenovic | @sasha_sobbing
MOONFLOWER (He/They) is a Queer Two-Spirit Transmasculine Mescalero Apache Latinx and Chinese performing artist, actor, and Draglesque performer. He is an advocate for erotic embodiment, queer trans joy, and pleasure expansion. Kink, art, and performance are an integral part of of their life, as they are practices that help them abolish and break free from oppressive, colonial, and societal disciplines. He is passionate about creating and contributing to radical containers of play that allow himself and others to go to a place of deep transformation, exploration, and healing. You may have recently seen him onstage with Seattle Rep, Village Theatre, ArtsWest, VALTESSE, The Dirty Darlings, and AZNGLO / RICEGLO. When not onstage you’ll find him in the kitchen cookin, in the mountains, or in the nearest body of water!
SHANN THOMAS (they/them) aka shannimal planet is a mixed media visual and performance artist from Seattle, WA. Cacaw!