Queer Mvmnt Fest: Mainstage Showcase

Saturday, June 7, 2025

The Saville Theatre at San Diego City College

14th St &, C St, San Diego, CA 92101

For our final evening of the festival, we’re pleased to showcase a beautiful array of queer performance by local and visiting artists. Join us for a mainstage performance of works by hamsa fae, Joshua D. Estrada-Romero, Bruce McCormick, GEOMETRY Dance Company, Robert Taylor, and Sam Arrow. There will be a brief Q & A after the performance, hosted by the magnificent Bernard Brown! Seats are $25 for general admission, and $15 for Artist/Student/Low-Income. 

No one turned away for lack of funds. This event is ADA accessible. DISCO RIOT is committed to accessibility and holds with great care the needs of our entire community, especially those who are disabled and economically marginalized. We encourage you to contact Alyssa Rose, our accessibility specialist, (email: operations@disoriot.org) regarding any specific accommodation needs or waiver of admission fees.

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About the Artists:

hamsa fae she/they

hamsa fae is a Vietnamese-French artist working across performance, sound, movement, and sculpture. With a decade of research in shamanism and land-based inquiry, she uses the trans-political body as a site for accessing ancestral memory and indigenous technologies. Her work unravels the interconnectedness between identity, intimacy, and ecology by confronting post-colonial voyeurism and supremacist narratives of gender. Through cyber and live invitations, she edges audiences towards self and environmental remembrance.

Her recent works have been exhibited at the Hannah Hoffman Gallery, AHL Foundation, Mingei International Museum, Bread & Salt, Athenaeum Art Center, and Fronte San Ysidro. Her solo exhibition, Trans Aphrodisia, was in 2024 at the Brown Building. She is the recent winner of the Prebys Healing Through the Arts Grant, where she will curate the first national AAPI Emerging Artist Fellowship.

www.heartofhamsa.com | @hamsalefae

Joshua D. Estrada-Romero he/him

Joshua D. Estrada-Romero began his dance training at California State University, Fullerton and received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance in Fall of 2008 and his MFA in Dance from the University of California Irvine in 2017. He has performed with Palindrome Dance Company, RhetOracle Dance Company, BARE Dance Company, Kelly Alvarez & Artists and is currently a dancer for Nickerson-Rossi Dance. He continues to perform with Tustin Dance Center as Snow King, Spanish Lead, and Arabian Lead for the their Annual Nutcracker. 

Joshua is the founder and artistic director of FUSE Dance Company based in Orange, CA. Joshua is a certified yoga instructor through CorePower yoga and Nutritional Coach through NASM. He is a photographer focusing on capturing dance, movement and sports. Currently, Joshua shares his passion as an instructor/choreographer to all dance students of California State University Fullerton, Mt. San Antonio College and Santa Ana College.

@catchinupconchachi @fuse_dance_company @capturesconchachi

Bruce McCormick he/him/his

Bruce McCormick is a choreographer, performer, educator and scholar. He earned his BFA from The Juilliard School and his MFA from the University of Washington, where he was also on faculty. He performed in twelve countries on four continents as a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Bavarian State Ballet, and the Bern Ballet, where he was a soloist and ballet master. He also served as Assistant Artistic Director of North Netherlands Dance and Rehearsal Director with Ballet BC. McCormick has choreographed throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia for the concert stage, opera, site-specific work and film. His approach investigates ballet’s contemporaneity, not only through movement creation but also through cultivating inclusive rehearsal spaces where past harms are not perpetuated. In 2018, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman School of Dance where he serves as Associate Professor of Practice in Ballet Technique.

 @bruce_b_nimble. bmcdance.com

GEOMETRY Dance Company

GEOMETRY Dance Company seeks to empower women in dance by modeling (and sometimes creating) non-traditional pathways inside the commercial and concert landscape of dance that prioritizes women’s agency. The company is committed to the celebration of women’s bodies, stories, well-being, strength, and diversity through the architecture of movement. GEOMETRY prioritizes and recognizes community, leadership, and the curation of safe spaces as the foundation of this work.

@geometrydancecompany

Robert Edward Taylor, Jr. (Robbie) he/they

Robert Edward Taylor, Jr. (Robbie), a Placerville, California native, has been passionate about the arts from a young age. He taught himself to dance via YouTube and later trained in high school and at Folsom Lake College, exploring ballet, modern, and musical theater. Robbie joined MOSAIC Dance Company in 2016, performing locally and nationally, and danced in Sacramento Ballet’s “Nutcracker” under Ron Cunningham, with further roles in “Carmina Burana” and “Giselle”. In 2018, he joined Sacramento Contemporary Dance Theatre (SCDT), collaborating on projects that highlight local non-profits. After earning associate degrees in Dance Studies and Sociology, he studied at CSU Fullerton and later completed his BFA in Dance at San Diego State University in 2022. He continued his studies in the MALAS program at SDSU, focusing on Dance, Psychology, and LGBT+ Studies. There, he launched the With;OUT Dance Project with Mario Jaimes supporting multidisciplinary collaboration and performances.

@thewithoutdanceproject  @robert_taylor_01

Sam Arrow they/he

Sam Arrow is a dance artist who creates work that feels both personal and universal. He is a micro-activist who draws on their life as a parent and partner, and knowledge about the human body to empower those around them. He is a Permanent Artist in Residence with [nueBOX].

About the Q&A Facilitator:

Bernard Brown he/they

Bernard Brown is a Los Angeles-based performer, choreographer, arts activist, and educator who situates their work at the intersection of Blackness, Queerness, and belonging. With an extensive performing career, Bernard now serves as Director of Bernard Brown/bbmoves – choreographing for stage, specific sites, film, and opera presented globally. Brown has received invitations, residencies and commissions from On The Boards, The Getty Museum, the Centre de Développement Chorégraphique la Termitière (Burkina Faso), Dance Italia (Italy), The Music Center, REDCAT, Dance Mission Theater, danceBox (Japan), Johns Hopkins University, California African American Museum, among others. Brown conducts lectures, workshops, and master classes internationally, namely in Korea, Panama, Burkina Faso, Canada, Puerto Rico, Malta, and Brazil, and across the US various educational institutions and community-centered organizations. A first-generation college graduate, Brown earned his MFA from University of California, Los Angeles and BFA from Purchase College. He is an Assistant Professor of Dance at UC San Diego and a Certified Katherine Dunham Technique Instructor. The Los Angeles Times has called him “…the incomparable Bernard Brown…”

@renaissancebrown @bb.moves @prof.bbrown

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For more information about the week of Queer Mvmnt Fest: https://discoriot.org/queer-mvmnt-fest-2025/