‘#CHAMPION,’ Story of Queer Disabled Survival, Premiering at Denver Fringe Festival
Sheila Klein is making their return to Denver’s performing scene and will showcase their brand new show #CHAMPION, at this year’s Denver Fringe Festival. The performance is in collaboration with Masha Mikulinsky, and shows begin this weekend, starting this Thursday, June 23.
Klein is a queer, disabled, multidisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer, and educator. Their work pulls from postmodern dance, physical theater, and disability justice. Klein’s work is known for eliciting delight, discomfort, and disillusionment, for being too much and not enough all at once.
Mikulinsky is also a queer, non-able-bodied interdisciplinary designer, writer, and visual artist. Their work is interactive and evokes personal and collective memory at the edge of the tangible and tactile in order to interact with cultural somatics.
Not only do both of these artists work in the mental health field, but they both make up Amuse Bouche Productions. Amuse Bouche Productions makes provocative movement-based work in the spaces where pop culture and critical inquiry collide and #CHAMPION is no different.
#CHAMPION, like many of Klein’s past works, is centered around grief, triumph, and defeat all under the lens of humor. #CHAMPION will discuss Klein’s experience with being in the trenches of the medical-industrial complex. Seeing as Klein has been living with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, postural tachycardia syndrome, and mast cell activation syndrome, they are well-versed in the medical-industrial complex.
Amuse Bouche productions describes #CHAMPION as a show about queer, disabled survival. #CHAMPION will be shown at Savoy Denver as a part of the Denver Fringe Festival. The festival says “#CHAMPION promises the audience a wild ride along the precipices of laugh-out-loud funny, unadulterated sincerity, and all-too-familiar heartbreak. #CHAMPION will rock you.”
The show will run from Thursday, June 23 through Sunday, June 26. All shows start at 7:15 p.m. except for the last show which starts at 4:15 p.m. All tickets are $15 and can be purchased on the Denver Fringe Festival website.
We can’t wait to see #CHAMPION on stage this weekend and hear more from other queer, disabled artists.
Photo courtesy of Amuse Bouche Productions
