Friday, October 30, 2026 at 8:00 PM to Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Human Resources, Los Angeles
*On the Floor* marks the first collaboration between Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk. In this duet, these two friends attempt to piece together traces of 70s and 80s queer San Francisco. Specifically, their project explores the legacies carried by dance music genres of the late 70s and 80s (especially disco and hi-NRG) in relation to the early days of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The piece weaves together the links between nightlife, the virus, and queer memory, drawing on materials gathered throughout Dcx and Silk’s research: interviews with DJs and clubgoers, Patrick Cowley's music and personal diaries, live recordings of Sylvester, practices like flagging and fan dancing, and ephemera from clubs like the I-Beam and the Trocadero Transfer. Working in relation to this archive, Dcx and Silk push themselves into altered states induced by dance, moving through an inner space of hedonism, exhaustion, escape, and discipline. Warning: This performance contains strobe lighting. Choreography and Performance: Théophylle Dcx and Maria Silk Music: Izaak Schlossman Dramaturgical Assistance: Kim Ip and Marion Parigi Lighting Design: gg torres (San Francisco) and Andrew Odom (LA) Production: DIZZYING Styling: Alfredo Romero Photo Credit: Robbie Sweeny With **Styles Alexander - October 30** *CAUDA: For a solitary they-goat in West Hollywood* is a solo dance-theatre project by Styles Alexander exploring cultural extinction, erotic desirability, and the hauntological persistence of counterculture. Reimagining Nijinsky's faun as a gay cryptid wandering through West Hollywood, the work considers the body a site of historical haunting: an accumulation of mythology, choreography and history of erotic transgression-a subcultural survival. Part animal, part cultural-relic the faun is the outsider asking if an obsolete gesture can still produce a rupture. The faun recalls social worlds that once gave these gestures their disruptive force but have since been consumed by an assimilated aesthetic. Can the original demon-twink imbibe in the same pleasures of a world that has commercialized access? Why is the sex-party $100 to enter? Can an animal survive in a world that demands he become a brand? Can desire truly manifest when everyone knows they're being watched? **Sevyn 0000 - October 31** Ahead of her brief return to Los Angeles, Sevyn 0000 shares work from an upcoming EP project. *The Perverse* is a collection of original compositions and sound design by the NYC-based artist and musician created in collaboration with Borna Barzin for his theatrical work of the same name. For this performance, Sevyn expands the project beyond its original theatrical context, bringing together experimental sound and body movement that unfolds as a controlled experiment and quickly destabilizes. Exploring the transsexual body as a site of distortion, vulnerability, and reinvention, the work examines the relationship between sound, flesh, identity, and the shifting boundaries of physical representation. Through repetition, tension, and transformation, the performance considers the body not as a fixed form, but as something continually constructed, dismantled, and reimagined. [TICKETS](https://pools.events/t/uzdjtbmf/) *On the Floor* has been supported by the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, Flourish Trust, and The Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry’s Psychedelics in Society and Culture fellowship program; the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s New and Experimental Works (NEW) program; the Zellerbach Family Foundation’s Community Arts program; CounterPulse’s Edge Residency program; as well as residencies at Actoral and the Ballet National de Marseille. Théophylle Dcx lives and works in Marseille. His practice is akin to a personal diary. Biographical, youthful, and resolutely memorial, it hyperbolically shares anger, fatigue, anxiety, joy, desires, and hopes in the face of a perpetually collapsing world. Social, political, and medical catastrophes punctuate the narrative. His work treats the body as an archive and an embodied political gesture, on which appear the ebb and flow of history, the stakes of social struggles and the need for emancipation from contemporary normative regimes. His work has been presented at Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Datsuijo (Tokyo), CounterPulse (San Francisco), Art-O-Rama (Marseille), and Théâtre Saint Gervais (Geneva). Maria Silk is an artist based in San Francisco. Centered on performance, her practice examines themes of collectivity and friction within queer and trans life as well as received narratives around queer history and identity. Her work draws on over a decade of activity as a drag queen and DJ in San Francisco's queer nightlife. Silk’s work has been exhibited and performed at Bay Area venues including the Berkeley Art Museum, the Cantor Center for the Arts, CounterPulse, Slash, and Southern Exposure, and internationally at Fierce! Festival (Birmingham, UK), and Improspekcije (Zagreb, Croatia). Styles Alexander is a Los Angeles–based transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, playwright, and performer. Trained at Boston Conservatory, Alexander spent several years developing experimental performance in the San Francisco Bay Area, including co-founding RUPTURE, a Black performance collective. Their practice moves between dance, theatre, and performance art, employing absurdity, mythology, and theatrical maximalism to investigate desire, becoming, and the contradictions of contemporary life. They are currently building an immersive theatre work called TarNation, supported by the Rainin Foundation and Zellerbach Family Foundation. Sevyn 0000 is a New York–based DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersections of sound, movement, and performance. Working across experimental electronic music, sound design, and composition, her work builds immersive sonic worlds that investigate intimacy, repetition, tension, and transformation. Drawing from both club culture and experimental performance, she approaches sound as a physical and emotional experience. Performance organized by Keko Jackson and produced with the help of clara lópez menéndez Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live