Join us to witness the experiments emerge within an eclectic scratch night, plus have the opportunity to provide anonymous feedback to performers, helping them to extend and develop their practices

2023 Artists:

Chuck SJ is a multidisciplinary artist, with a focus on music and words as a tool to explore and express around social political issues, specifically on the trans revolution. This Punk Powerhouse is well known for their intoxicating stage performance, unique guitar skills and unapologetic honesty. Chuck has completed 5 European tours, 12 UK tours, 15 albums and 2 EPs. In 2020, they had words published in the Creating In Crisis anthology by Polari Press. In 2021, they received Arts Council funding to self produce a 17-track album titled Resist Recharge Revolt written in a cabin in the woods during the pandemic. The album was released under KNM records in December 2022.

Lady Lazarus is an aerialist, pole dancer, and queer burlesque artist, part of the Bitten Peach Asian collective and the Rock n Roll Cabaret. They are the shapeshifting incubus of your fantasies, ready to delight and seduce you. There’s nothing they love more than getting filthy on stage for the queers, and their X-rated gymnastics will have you screaming for more.

Milla “Mils” Harding Recinos (they/them) is an actor, non-binary theatre maker, writer and drag performer who makes work that explores gender, plays with queerness, celebrates latino culture and exudes trans joy – whilst sticking it to the kyriarchy. A core belief running through their work can be summarised by Cesar A. Cruz: “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. They are one half of the drag queen cowboy clown country music duo Bare Cuntry & Breast Westhern. Their drag king (Carlos Al Dick) trained with Diane Torr and they are the founder of London’s first Latin American Drag King Collective: los reyes del barrio.

 

About Elevate East:
Elevate East is an artistic development and event production organisation, co-founded and led by Creative Director, Jack Edwards and Creative Producer, Martha Rumney.

With fun at the forefront of the collective, Elevate East curate, immerse and play with experiential performances and cabaret ‘cum’ game shows – putting audiences through their paces, on the wackiest of adventures.

Stuck in the Lift: Underground is their flagship artist development programme.

 

Elevate East Instagram / Lucinda B. Hind Instagram / Chuck SJ Instagram

Rachel Instagram / Lady Lazarus Instagram / Carlos Al Dick Instagram

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