Back for another year of powerful, sexy, experimental queer dance, the Queering Dance Festival’s FROLIC! presents six Bay Area LBGTQ+ artists. Transmutation, monstrosity, sex work as vital ritual, tap as tribute, and more infuse the vibrant works presented by this
year's commissioned artists.

Tickets: Sliding Scale $0-45

2026 ARTISTS
Micah Sallid
Wailana Simcock
Tajinder Virdee
B Dean / BODYSTORM
Nina Haft & Company
Saharla Vetsch // Major Hammy & Garrett Lukas Dellios // Beef Cakes

ACCESS INFORMATION
ASL Interpretation - Friday and Saturday

Live Audio Description - Saturday with Haptic Access Tour at 4pm. Provided by Gravity Access Services.

The theater is on the second floor with access via an elevator. The front row of the theater is on ground level with no stairs, other rows require walking up two-ten stairs.

Scent-free: please avoid wearing scents to this performance

COVID Safety: Audiences are required to wear masks. Performers are covid-tested multiple times in the week leading up to the performances and may elect to perform unmasked.

If you have any questions about access or additional access needs, please contact us at qdf@shawl-anderson.org

MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Micah Sallid offers a Hoofers (tap) love letter to Oakland—its rhythm, its people, its power. Driven by the contagious flow of the R&B group Tower of Power’s “What Is Hip,” it celebrates community, diversity, and the electric pulse that “The Town” radiates into the world.

"Full Release", from choreographer Wailana Simcock, exxxplicitly engages sex and sex work, challenging a culture that casts pleasure as transgression. Reaching beneath moral inheritance and into pre-Christian bodies and desires, the work insists on pleasure as a vital, generative force. Personal testimony dissolves into fiction; drag kinships collide with Grindr confessions; ritual meets transaction atop a massage table.

In “Whispers of the Womb,” Tajinder Virdee acknowledges the unprocessed grief of miscarriage in their ancestral lineage while disrupting binary understandings of transness and dysphoria. Their performance explores with curiosity what the womb space can teach us about what it means to care and nourish life.

In a stark, dimly-lit dystopia where flesh deviates and identities fracture, B Dean/BODYSTORM's "TEETH" plunges into the shadows where trans bodies become monstrous, not as objects of horror, but as sites of radical imagination and necessary adaptation.

Nina Haft & Company presents "Facing Gaza", a duet about choice and complicity in a time of genocide.

From Saharla Vetsch // Major Hammy & Garrett Lukas Dellios // Beef Cakes: All that you touch, you change. All that you change changes you. We are echoes of ourselves and those that invoke transmutation; past, present, and future.

Image: Micah St. Clair Sallid by Andrio Jordan Fong
Image Description/Alt Text: Dancer in Blue Shirt and turquoise tap shoes jumps into the air off of a board in a rose garden.

Queering Dance

Queering Dance

Queering Dance

The Queering Dance Festival presents FROLIC!