Our FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of transgender and queer performance is an annual 3-day, multidisciplinary performance festival – held each June at San Francisco’s Z Space Theater.

The FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL centers transgender, gender-nonconforming and queer BIPOC artists, and lifts up our performing artists as truthtellers who light and lead the way to our collective liberation, healing and JOY.

The FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL features the Bay Area’s and the nation’s leading trans, gender-nonconforming and queer dance, theater, music and multi-disciplinary performance artists.

Folklórico, hip-hop, modern dance, vogue, contemporary R&B, tap dance, Son Jarocho, comedy, storytelling, disabled dance pioneers, ballroom and MORE!

The wildly-popular FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL of trans & queer performance is expanding to an online TWO WEEK FESTIVAL – and all tickets are FREE!  All programs will be Closed Captioned for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing audiences.

The 2022 FRESH MEAT FESTIVAL features some of the Bay Area and the nation’s most innovative transgender, gender-nonconforming and queer artists, with performances by:

Alex “Glamputee” Locust, amara tabor-smith, Angelica & Jahaira, Angie & Audrey, B Noel Thomas, Ballet 22, Cindy Emch, Cuauhtémoc Peranda, DANDY, dani tirrell + J Mase III + Randy Ford, David Slaney, Dear Queer Dancer, Detour Dance, Felipe & Tiago, Folclórico Colibrí, JanpiStar, LAFEMMEBEAR, Landa Lakes, Lottie Riot, Luna Ninja, NAKA Dance Theater, Marcus Zebra Smith, NEVE, Omar and Milton, Pioneer Winter Collective, Sean Dorsey Dance, Shawna Virago, Shrouk El-Attar, Silk Worm, Sir JoQ, Tajah J, Tina Cavvichio, Tosha Jorden, Toby MacNutt, Truc Nguyen, UNA aka EXhotIC OTHER, and Vanessa Sanchez and La Mezcla, and many more.

DEAR QUEER DANCER SHOWCASE

featuring:

Marcus Zebra Smith

UNA aka EXhotIC OTHER

David Slaney

Angelica & Jahaira

Ballet 22

Tosha Jorden

JanpiStar

Sean Dorsey Dance

Tina Cavvichio

Omar & Milton

Angie & Audrey

Felipe & Tiago

Sir JoQ

Shrouk El-Attar

Luna Ninja

Felipe and Tiago are the founders of RoleRotation. They are both dance instructors, coaches, choreographers, and event organizers of the first Spanish Dance Congress free of gender roles: Terra Livre Dance Festival.

Well known for their new take on social dances where the dancers rotate roles during the whole song. It is not about a leader and a follower anymore, but about two people speaking through a song. They are full instructors and activists fighting to end gender stereotypes in social dances.

Firm believers that movement, and dance, has no gender and that everyone should be free to express themselves and reach their full potential free of prejudice and judgement.

They started to show Role Rotation in international events, festivals and schools and have taught around different countries such as United Kingdom, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, United States…

Their background and teachings vary from Bachata, Salsa, Kizomba, ballroom, lyrical jazz, reggaeton, among others.

From Spain and Portugal, they live in Madrid, Spain, where the biggest dance scene in the country is set.