Moonyeka (they/them) is a nonbinary Ilocano-Filipinx  shapeshifter who takes form as a performing artist, teaching artist, writer, choreographer, curator, scholar, brujx and interdisciplinary artist. With a specialty in offering sensually sacred dance and movement-based storytelling experiences, Moonyeka's performance, community organizing and divination work centers kapwa and kilig as a compass to imagine worlds where their communities can thrive. Their dance and movement foundations lineages found root in the Street Styles Communities of South King County and Seattle where they engaged in cypher practices + freestyle forms such as Popping, Tutting, Animation. In conjunction, modern dance, improvisational methods, and sensual movement practices across contemporary dance spaces, diasporic upbringing, QTBIPOC show girl magic, and nightlife worlds also inform their practice.

Amongst dance and movement practices, Moonyeka plays in the fields of autofiction and biomythographic writing practices and is working towards publishing their first book.

This Open House is a works-in-process sharing and celebration of Harana for the Aswang. Harana for The Aswang is an audio-visual-performance work centered on queering the research of harana, a Filipinx-Ilocano-Southern Americas diasporic serenade song form rooted in courtship and grief rituals. Aswang is an umbrella term for various shape-shifting, mythological, animist, folkloric, "evil" spirits and creatures in Filipino folklore. They will be exploring dance phrase work and durational music/sound scores that activate in and out of the theater space. Harana for the Aswang is researched through 7 different Aswang archetypes. For this BASE sharing, they are developing material specifically for the Siren archetype. This research modernizes Aswang spirits to those who root into our intersectional QT diasporic lives.

This QTBIPOC all star collaborative cast includes: Arabella Bautista (Digital Producer), Amy Piñon (Videographer),  Heidi Grace Acuna (Soft Fabric Artist + Costume Designer), Gaby Colon (Dancer), Olivia Stevens (Dancer), Freddie Lee Toyoda (Musician), Izumi (Musician), karinyo (Composer + Musician), Juno (Singer), Yunue (Lighting + Technical Operation), Maka (Collaborator), and Athena Herrington (Collaborator + MakeUp Artist).

Please join us at Base on Sunday, May 7 at 2:30pm for Moonyeka's Base Residency Open House followed by a special announcement, mingling and celebration.

Space is limited– please reserve a free ticket in advance

Photo provided by V

[Image Description: Moonyeka is adorned in blue silk sleeves, their arms framing their face to the right side. They wear a pink lips, a rich blue eyeliner with some shimmer, and has their hair down long. Behind them is a clear blue sky with some telephone wires. Their top is lavender with a deeper purple fringe that sparkles.]