Taboo
A drag queen in the 80’s who discovers she might be HIV positive and if she is going to die, she will do so beautifully!
Conceived by Sasha Spielvogel
Choreographed by Sasha Spielvogel in collaboration with Ramon Flowers
Taboo has been performed at:
premiere:
June 20th, 2014, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance)
June 8th, 2015, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC (co-produced with Dancers Over 40)
June 18th, 19th, 2016 the 92nd Street Y, Wave Rising Festival, NYC
June 8th, 2015, at the Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC (co-produced with Dancers Over 40)
June 18th, 19th, 2016 the 92nd Street Y, Wave Rising Festival, NYC
June 14t – 17th, 2019 Ailey Citigroup Theater, NYC
In Taboo, Ramon Flowers portrays a Drag Queen in the disco era who discovers she may be HIV positive. Taboo is part of a larger work, Come Back Once More So I Can Say Good-Bye about gay life New York City and the advent of AIDS circa 1965-1985 set to premiere in the Summer of 2015. Other dances which are part of this project include, Quickening which I also applied to ADG’s 2014 concert series with, as well as The Promise of Rest, recently performed at ADG’s Inside/Out @ Jacob’s Pillow concert and Fury which was previously presented on ADG’s concert at the Ailey Theater in 2012.
Ramon Flowers landed the role of Richie in the Broadway musical A Chorus Line, while still in college. He has since danced with Pennsylvania Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, as soloist under William Forsythe in the Frankfurt Ballet, and principal dancer with Béjart Ballet Lausanne, and Nacho Duato’s Compania Nacional de Danza de España. Ramon has appeared on Broadway in CATS, The Green Bird, The Lion King, The Boy From Oz, Hot Feet, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and with Chita Rivera in the national tour of A Dancer’s Life and in Julie Taymor’s Across The Universe.
