Nightlight: Snow Moon

NIGHTLIGHT: Snow Moon with Fox Whitney + Moonyeka

Friday, February 26th | 10 PM PST

Pricing: New Moon – $10 | Half Moon – $20 | Full Moon – $30
All proceeds are split 50/50 between the artists and Velocity

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Introducing NIGHTLIGHT, a monthly full moon dance ritual + party hosted by a rotating roster of artists.

Join us for the first gathering hosted by Fox Whitney and Moonyeka.
Indulge your desire to party, celebrate, and connect.

February’s full moon is the Snow Moon and the theme of this month’s NIGHTLIGHT.

ABOUT NIGHTLIGHT

NIGHTLIGHT is a late-night gathering inspired by full moon feelings and the need to come together when and how we can! Instigators Fox and Moonyeka invite a rotating group of featured artists to create an invitation/incantation for the digital realm that offers people a chance to indulge their desire to party, transmute, manifest, and dance hard. Instructions on how to engage during the event will be shared by artists beforehand. Artists will also offer party-goers a gift to mark each special occasion.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Fox Whitney

Fox Whitney’s queer black mixed transgender point of view is at the heart of his performance project, Gender Tender. GT engages a team of artists trained in Fox’s unique methods modeled on visual art practices, cults and riots. He is also a filmmaker, actor, dancer and teaching artist. Melted Riot, a Gender Tender performance inspired by the Stonewall Riots of 1969, was presented at Velocity Dance Center on the 50th anniversary of the uprising. His work has been commissioned and produced by the Henry Art Gallery, On the Board’s NW New Works Festival and Solo Festival; Velocity’s Next Fest NW and Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation; the Seattle International Dance Festival; Yellow Fish Epic Durational Performance Festival and was selected for the inaugural season of Seattle’s Gay CIty Arts. He has performed in work by keyon gaskin, Morgan Thorson, CommonForm Dance Project, Malic Amalya and Gabrielle Civil and has exhibited his dance films and visual art nationally. He is currently an artist in residence at On the Boards in Seattle and Velocity’s Interim Artistic Director.

IG: @fox_whitney_
GenderTender’s Instagram: @gendertenderforever
Gender Tender + Fox Whitney Website: gendertender.weebly.com/

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Moonyeka

Moonyeka is a nonbinary Filipinx femme interdisciplinary artist with a specialty in dance and movement-based storytelling. Moonyeka is one of Velocity Dance Center’s Creative Residents for 2022 where they will be diving into a performance research that centers QT + POC show girl histories, performance intelligences of working girls, and so much more. Moonyeka’s dance and movement centers in freestyle forms such as Popping, Tutting, Animation, while also being informed by modern dance, improvisational methods, sensual movement practices, and their QT Filipinx background.

Amongst many project and collaboration Moonyeka is a co-curator for NIGHTLIGHT, a Velocity Dance Center program, where they invite a roster of dance/performing artists and live musicians to create unique performances that explore the spectrum of dance party and ritual.

Moonyeka is also one of the vocalists and lyricists of The Gender Tender Experiment, led by Fox Whitney.