Bunk Beds - Performed by Big Boy Dance

Bunk Beds - Performed by Big Boy Dance

April 3rd and 4th - 7:30 p.m. - Wish Theater in Memorial Hall

Presented by the Department of Theater and Dance
Photo by Sammy Weidenthal

Bunk Beds is a new response in a series of choreographic works by Tristan Koepke | Big Boy Dance inspired by the creative and amorous relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, social media thirst traps, queer melancholia, speculative masculinities, and romance novel tropes. Building on Big Boy Dance's recent performances, There’s Only One Bed (2023) and There’s More Than One Bed (2024), and drawing from Andie Nordgren’s manifesto for relationship anarchy, Bunk Beds asks what happens when creative process, love, and friendship accumulate and reverberate over time. 

Seeking to reframe and transcend conventional narratives of Cunningham and Cage’s twentieth century avant-guard collaborations, which often diminish their queer romance and radicalism, Bunk Beds catalyzes the ways in which LGBTQ+ artistic legacies are created, preserved, embodied, and reimagined.

Sponsored by the Alice Cooper Morse Fund for the Performing Arts and the June Vail Fund for Dance.