CuRRENT & UPCOMING SHOWS
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Queering Tango
Thursday, Apr 16, 7-10pm
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Join us for a night exploring the rich, often overlooked history of queer tango—from its origins in the working-class neighborhoods of Buenos Aires to its reinvention within contemporary LGBTQ+ dance communities around the world.
The evening will begin with a panel conversation featuring members of the Queer Tango Collective, who will discuss how queer dancers have reclaimed and reshaped tango traditions by challenging rigid gender roles and embracing fluidity on the dance floor.
Following the discussion, Queer Tango Collective will present a live performance highlighting the artistry and improvisational spirit at the heart of queer tango, before leading participants in an interactive workshop where attendees can learn movements and explore partner dancing beyond gender roles—no experience necessary.
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Free. Donations welcome.
Thanks to our sponsors: Plaxall Inc, TF Cornerstone, Steve Madden, Howard Gilman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts
Weapons of Mass Seduction
June 11-21
Under an even more Trump-than-Trump president — the bombastic Karen Blare — the United States is waging a “culture war” against its new enemy: woke Canada. Determined to win the fight without casualties (or headlines), Blare demands a new kind of non-lethal weapon. Her loyal but dim-witted General Fardmann has the perfect idea: resurrect the long-rumored “Gay Bomb.”
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To make it work, they must thaw out Professor. Victor Vexx — a brilliant, genderfluid chemical weapons scientist frozen since the summer of love in 67 — and assign CIA agent Valerie Steele to keep them in check.
But as Vexx sets their sights on sparking a queer revolution from within, Blare’s administration prepares to test the bomb on a small conservative Southern town. When the plan leaks, chaos erupts. Glitter flies, loyalties shift, and the battle lines between repression and liberation blur in an explosion of camp, color, and chemical warfare.
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This piece detonates a glittery critique of military machismo, political hypocrisy, and homophobia — flipping the script so that queer people aren’t the victims of the system, but the ones who joyfully, fabulously, and furiously blow it up from the inside.
PERFORMING ARTS At Culture Lab LIC
Culture Lab LIC is passionate about supporting emerging artists and fostering ambitious work. Over the past four years, our directors have helped produce over 25 professional productions. We have supported original and in-development work, presenting the premiere productions.
We have provided rehearsal space for over 20 theatre/dance and music groups and produced hundreds of events. In 2024 alone, we donated over 1,000 hours of rehearsal space to local theatre and dance companies. Over the past three years, we have created an amazing space for performing artists to learn, grow, take risks and make work. We are proud to create affordable opportunities for our local artistic community here in LIC!
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