Queen Tuts: An Intro to Tutting

by | Jan 17, 2021

QUEEN TUTS: INTRO TO TUTTING!
a 4-week series with Angel “Moonyeka” Alviar-Langley
Saturdays 2:30-4PM
January 16th – February 6th, 2021
$88 Full Series / $60 Early Bird / $25 Drop-In / $0 BIPOC, Transgender, Non-Binary, and Two-Spirit dancers

In this series Moonyeka will take us through a journey to:
Learn about various origins, histories, influences that have informed Tutting.
Drill through basic Tutting sequences. Create a toolbox to be able to play, freestyle, and dance with lines and angles.

about the artist

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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.

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