BIO
Stuart B Meyers is an interdisciplinary artist and performer working in dance, theatre, ritual, parties. 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.
As a performer, Stuart has worked internationally alongside Colette Sadler, Julian Webber, Nick Cave, Ann Liv Young, Robert Wilson, Christopher Williams, Thomas Bo Nilsson, A.R.M. and Tino Sehgal, performing in venues including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), The Stedelijk (Amsterdam), Schaubuhne (Berlin), Southbank Centre (London), The Park Avenue Armory, The High Line, New York Live Arts & The Shed (NYC).
As a creator, Stuart's works include WITCH DANCE (Berlin), KOPFKINO (Berlin & NYC), Love Kills (for the 2019 BAM Gala), and PRIDE INSIIIDE, a storefront window performance installation in the West Village (NEA funded, NYC). His ritual dinner party “*The Shabbos Queen*, a Queer & Dreamy Jewish Shabbat Dinner Delight & Extravaganza,” has toured internationally since 2017 with support from Berlin’s Cultural Senate and several international organizations. It has traveled to Amsterdam, Berlin, Brooklyn, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Boston + Miami online. Recently, Brooklyn’s Center for Performance Research (CPR) supported Stuart in developing “The Yenta Show,” a talk show about love hosted by YENTA, a matchmaking angel from heaven. Stuart’s received funding from the Berlin Cultural Senate, the BK Arts Council, and the NEA, and is a 2019-2021 NYLA Fresh Tracks Artist & CPR AIR. and a 2018 danceWeb Scholar.
Stuart also organizes Brooklyn's new Queer Jewish Dance Party FLAMINGGG, which in its inagural year has already hosted 600+ people. Stuart is an educator for Ping Chong + Co, is a certified Hypnotist (IHF), and reads Tarot + Dreams through a Kabbalistic tradition (trained by Bonnie Buckner & Catherine Shainberg of the School of Images). @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 an interdisciplinary artist and performer working in dance, theatre, ritual, parties. 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.
As a performer, Stuart has worked internationally alongside Colette Sadler, Julian Webber, Nick Cave, Ann Liv Young, Robert Wilson, Christopher Williams, Thomas Bo Nilsson, A.R.M. and Tino Sehgal, performing in venues including Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin), The Stedelijk (Amsterdam), Schaubuhne (Berlin), Southbank Centre (London), The Park Avenue Armory, The High Line, New York Live Arts & The Shed (NYC).
As a creator, Stuart's works include WITCH DANCE (Berlin), KOPFKINO (Berlin & NYC), Love Kills (for the 2019 BAM Gala), and PRIDE INSIIIDE, a storefront window performance installation in the West Village (NEA funded, NYC). His ritual dinner party “*The Shabbos Queen*, a Queer & Dreamy Jewish Shabbat Dinner Delight & Extravaganza,” has toured internationally since 2017 with support from Berlin’s Cultural Senate and several international organizations. It has traveled to Amsterdam, Berlin, Brooklyn, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, and Boston + Miami online. Recently, Brooklyn’s Center for Performance Research (CPR) supported Stuart in developing “The Yenta Show,” a talk show about love hosted by YENTA, a matchmaking angel from heaven. Stuart’s received funding from the Berlin Cultural Senate, the BK Arts Council, and the NEA, and is a 2019-2021 NYLA Fresh Tracks Artist & CPR AIR. and a 2018 danceWeb Scholar.
Stuart also organizes Brooklyn's new Queer Jewish Dance Party FLAMINGGG, which in its inagural year has already hosted 600+ people. Stuart is an educator for Ping Chong + Co, is a certified Hypnotist (IHF), and reads Tarot + Dreams through a Kabbalistic tradition (trained by Bonnie Buckner & Catherine Shainberg of the School of Images). @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.