BEHOLD! Dance - Queer Performance Series

As part of Highways’ BEHOLD! series, this Dance Program gathers a group of artists working at the intersection of choreography, performance art, and theater—each piece circling intimacy, power, identity, and the unstable architectures we build around them. What emerges is less a showcase than a shifting field of bodies, objects, and ideas in active negotiation.

Miana Abramson — Have You Ever Felt Queer?

A coming-of-age meditation tracing queerness from adolescence into adulthood—where the traits that once isolated begin to refract as strength. The work moves through memory, discomfort, and emergence toward a reclaimed sense of self.

Miana Abramson is a Los Angeles–based dance artist whose work explores identity, vulnerability, and personal transformation through expressive, narrative-driven movement.

Keli Gunn — MASC (excerpt)

A collaboratively-devised dance theater work examining how patriarchal masculinity shapes our closest relationships, filtered through a queer and trans nonbinary lens. Drawing fromThe Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Lovebybell hooks,MASCmoves between tenderness and rupture, asking what it might mean to unlearn masculinity in real time.

Keli Gunn (they/them) is a Los Angeles–based dancer and choreographer creating collaboratively-devised dance theater, performing with Mixed eMotion Theatrix and presenting work across Chicago, New York, and LA.

Jules Mara & Bruna Gill (Ides) — Ghost Riders

A collaboration between movement and textile artists Jules and Bruna, Ghost Riders stitches together stories of interdimensional runaways, genderqueer cowboys, and the specters that haunt queer settler identity on Turtle Island. Movement and costume merge into a tactile, shifting mythology.

Bruna Gill (Ides) is an LA-based multidisciplinary artist working across dance, textiles, ritual, and visual art, exploring pleasure, pain, and transformation through embodied practice.

Jules Mara is a Los Angeles–based non-binary dance artist and costume designer creating immersive, surreal performance work exploring embodiment, transformation, and environment.

Avery Polster — Hit and Run! (work-in-progress)

A traffic cone, a traffic delineator, and a barricade bound by caution tape construct an unstable arena: part cage, part stage, part construction site. Through durational holds, repetition, and dynamic movement, Polster creates fleeting encounters between plastic rigidity and warm flesh—asking when an object becomes a mask, a partner, or something stranger.

Avery Polster is a Jewish queer movement artist based in Los Angeles. A graduate of Arizona State University’s Dance program, he works across choreography, teaching, and movement direction while remaining deeply engaged in the communities he inhabits.

Eva Watson — careful where you step

An experimental comedy that maps human social systems onto the behavior of paper wasps. Balancing satire with physical rigor, the work probes obedience, hierarchy, and the tension between intellect and instinct—finding absurdity in the structures we unquestioningly inherit.

Eva Watson is a Los Angeles–based movement artist creating multidisciplinary work across dance, theater, and visual art, with performances and presentations throughout California and beyond.