BIO
Stuart B Meyers is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. Inspired by the overlap in his queer and Jewish identities, he creates shapeshifting, time-defying performance works which crack open perspectives, awakening audiences to their bodies and spirits.
Stuart's worked alongside Robert Wilson, Christopher Williams, Thomas Bo Nilsson, Colette Sadler, Julian Webber, Nick Cave, Ann Liv Young, A.R.M. and Tino Sehgal, and has performed in venues including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), The Stedelijk (Amsterdam), Schaubuhne (Berlin), Southbank Centre (London), The Park Avenue Armory, The High Line, and The Shed (NYC).
Stuart’s ritual-performance *The Shabbos Queen* has toured Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam & Krakow with support from Berlin’s Cultural Senate and several US-based organizations. He also performs as Yenta, a matchmaker descended from Heaven, who teaches folks how to love themselves, and then somebody else (with kind support from the Brooklyn Arts Council). Other works include WITCH DANCE (Berlin), KOPFKINO (head cinema) (Berlin & NYC (NYLA) and Love Kills (for the 2019 Brooklyn Academy of Music Gala), and PRIDE INSIDE, a performance-installation exploring Pride as process, with support from ChaShaMa Arts & the NEA.
Stuart is a 2019-2021 NY Live Arts' Fresh Tracks Fellow, a 2020-21 CPR Artist in Residence, a 2018 danceWeb Scholar, a Hypnotist, has studied Torah & Talmud through Drisha & The Romemu Yeshiva, and works with Tarot, Numerology, Morphology & Dreams through a Kabbalistic lineage (Bonnie Buckner & The School of Images). He’ a Boston University Graduate (BFA Theatre Arts, Minor Dance) and is based in Brooklyn. @stuartbmeyers
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a creator of experiential spaces, integrating dance, theatre, and design into interactive community rituals and events. Weaving together queer pop-culture, communal Jewish spiritual practice, and experimental choreographies, I work to open portals into the dreamfield, or opportunities for revelation. As a queer and queer Jew who grew up being told they should not exist, who found affirmation in the act of artistic creation, I hope to offer these environments to audiences untouched by conventional modes of performance, insisting that sustainable intimacy, awareness, and expansion are possible for all of us, that there is room for each of our uniqueness.
Stuart B Meyers is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. Inspired by the overlap in his queer and Jewish identities, he creates shapeshifting, time-defying performance works which crack open perspectives, awakening audiences to their bodies and spirits.
Stuart's worked alongside Robert Wilson, Christopher Williams, Thomas Bo Nilsson, Colette Sadler, Julian Webber, Nick Cave, Ann Liv Young, A.R.M. and Tino Sehgal, and has performed in venues including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), The Stedelijk (Amsterdam), Schaubuhne (Berlin), Southbank Centre (London), The Park Avenue Armory, The High Line, and The Shed (NYC).
Stuart’s ritual-performance *The Shabbos Queen* has toured Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam & Krakow with support from Berlin’s Cultural Senate and several US-based organizations. He also performs as Yenta, a matchmaker descended from Heaven, who teaches folks how to love themselves, and then somebody else (with kind support from the Brooklyn Arts Council). Other works include WITCH DANCE (Berlin), KOPFKINO (head cinema) (Berlin & NYC (NYLA) and Love Kills (for the 2019 Brooklyn Academy of Music Gala), and PRIDE INSIDE, a performance-installation exploring Pride as process, with support from ChaShaMa Arts & the NEA.
Stuart is a 2019-2021 NY Live Arts' Fresh Tracks Fellow, a 2020-21 CPR Artist in Residence, a 2018 danceWeb Scholar, a Hypnotist, has studied Torah & Talmud through Drisha & The Romemu Yeshiva, and works with Tarot, Numerology, Morphology & Dreams through a Kabbalistic lineage (Bonnie Buckner & The School of Images). He’ a Boston University Graduate (BFA Theatre Arts, Minor Dance) and is based in Brooklyn. @stuartbmeyers
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a creator of experiential spaces, integrating dance, theatre, and design into interactive community rituals and events. Weaving together queer pop-culture, communal Jewish spiritual practice, and experimental choreographies, I work to open portals into the dreamfield, or opportunities for revelation. As a queer and queer Jew who grew up being told they should not exist, who found affirmation in the act of artistic creation, I hope to offer these environments to audiences untouched by conventional modes of performance, insisting that sustainable intimacy, awareness, and expansion are possible for all of us, that there is room for each of our uniqueness.