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MATADORA ⚔️❤️‍🔥

chicago is beyond lucky to have such ambitious, devoted, and passionate artists like @houseofinsekta ❤️

thank you cami for cultivating such a incredible, beautiful team of 😈crazies😈 and for letting us help bring this vision to life.

crossing fingers for a return of crotchy & apple 👹🍏🤞🏼!!!

enjoy these bts including @jstephens.7 catching me doing some last minute work while warming up because LIFE OF A FREELANCER MEANS WE DO IT ALL 🫠🙃😂

📸 1-2 by @georgiatankard; 3 by @kristiekahns

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its getting muggy inside me, as i wonder through these archives ~

photos by @kristiekahns

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the after math 🩸

exactly a week ago ~

gracias por dejarlo todo en la tarima

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a week ago i couldn’t sleep of excitement, now am only left with these digital memories ⚔️

thank you @williamfrederkingphotography for capturing our viscosity on stage ~

Creator, Director & Dramaturge: INSÉKTA
Performers: @gabriela_chauta , @sophie.daker , @y3nya , @jstephens.7 , @_cjthestar , LabeNDA
Costume Design: @linesbyjacky
Lighting Design: @ginger_ale1999
Sound Design @hugofloresgarcia and @ssamuelosorioo

RUNWAY #1

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Twin Fight

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we gave birth to a monster, and i am SO PROUD.

thank you @georgiatankard for immortalizing us in film ~

and GRACIAS, for everyone who joined us.

see you another time? and where?

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misteriosa

seductora

temeraria, extravagante

espiritual

incomprendida

carnal

ancestral

con puro, PERREO

ellxs.

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see you on the other side ⚔️

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$20 tickets for all ~

available exclusively through the links in my bio ~

a special gift from me to you so you can be the first to see MATADORA live and celebrate this milestone with us

five days until curtains up on my first full-length production (!!!)

thank you for your support through this odyssey, from idea to opening night.

abrazos grande,

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video art by @berto_mndza

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I had fun sitting in during practice for the upcoming show, MATADORA, created by INSÉKTA, a Venezuelan-Peruvian director, choreographer, and director.
Billed as “a new work of Latine Futurism about an untamable creature and the blistering rage that can smother or unchain her,” it runs September 24th - 26th @dancecenterpresents!

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luces, porfa!

Introducing: MATADORA ⚔️

a tale of Latinx rage for my mujeres y disidencias. para todxs who desire possession—body. spirit. self.

Sept 24-26 at @dancecenterccc

👁️ legends make this legend—
this formidable cast @_cjthestar x @gabriela_chauta x @jstephens.7 x @y3nya x @sophie.daker
sonic world-builders @hugofloresgarcia x @ssamuelosorioo
skin creation @linesbyjacky
lighting our underworld @ginger_ale1999
@berto_mndza our editor & director behind the lens, with directors assistant @eduardo_fabianmontes x creative director @jeninpixels

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I’m constructing five body harnesses for MATADORA ⚔️ an aggressive, sexy and satirical work of contemporary dance and physical theatre. While designing these pieces, I thought about how suppressed rage mutates, constricts, and spills out the seams of the body; think tight pantyhose, mosquito bites, muscles, papules, bandages, and the subversive armor of bondage.

If you want to see the completed sets onstage, the limited premiere is only TWO WEEKS AWAY (Thurs 9/24, Fri 9/25, and Sat 9/26) at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Snag tickets through INSÉKTA’s bio link 🖤

🖤 Devised and choreographed by INSÉKTA @houseofinsekta
🖤 Dancers: @sophie.daker @y3nya @_cjthestar @jstephens.7 @gabriela_chauta

#chicagotheatre #chicagodance #contemporarydance #physicaltheatre #costuming

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another dimension of an exciting collaboration is the feedback loop that happens between my visions and the craftsmanship of the artist, in this case puppetear and costume extraordinaire @linesbyjacky

their ability to watch the dancers, be mindful of the spaces in which the body needs support or freedom and their rooted designs makes my visions of the “skin” for las matadoras even better.

get excited folxs cause Jacky’s craftsmanship, attention to detail, wit and vision are taking this performance to a different level

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in the @pinterest vortex getting inspired pt. 1

Sketches of Sophie + J by Jacky Kelsey

there is something about being asphyxiated, by clothes, shoes and ideologies ~

Sketches of CJ + Xenia + Gabriela by Jacky Kelsey

02 Abril 2025 — primeros sketches del vestuario ó ‘piel’

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Aaand that’s a wrap on Tiny Dances Summer 2026! Thank you to all who participated, attended, and helped bring this one of a kind DIY show to life. Selling out and a standing ovation 🤭 yeah the Chicago dance community really is that girl 💅🪩🫶
Pics @chippercentral

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