Bunk Beds - FRIDAY

Bunk Beds by Tristan Koepke | Big Boy Dance is a queer archive in motion—a choreography of thirst traps, love letters, and speculation that reimagines the radical intimacies and legacies of Cage and Cunningham. This ticket is for Friday, April 10th

WHEN:

Friday, April 10th, 7:30pm

Saturday, April 11th, 7:30pm

WHERE:

Fly on a Wall

2450 Piedmont Road NE

Atlanta, GA 30324

DURATION:

approx. 70 minutes

PRICING:

$25, with sliding scale for PCA attendees, students

PARKING:

https://www.flyonawall.buzz/contact

BUNK BEDS:

Bunk Beds is a new response in a series of choreographic works originally devised by Tristan Koepke and Benny Olk. Their first work, There’s Only One Bed (2023), explored themes of queer longing, desire, devotion, masculinity, and melancholy, inspired by the creative and amorous relationship between Merce Cunningham and John Cage, Instagram thirst traps, speculative masculinities, and romance novel tropes. Their sequel, There’s More Than One Bed (2024) continued to interrogate what devotion and commitment to love, longing, and process can look like when you make room for more than two. Drawing inspiration from Andie Nordgren’s manifesto for relationship anarchy, Bunk Beds (2025) reiterates and expands the choreographic material and creative inquiries from those previous works with a film installation and performance that ruptures and refracts into something uniquely new. Seeking to reframe and transcend conventional narratives of Cunningham and Cage’s collaborations, which often diminish their queer romance and radicalism, Bunk Beds catalyzes the ways in which LGBTQ+ artistic legacies are preserved, embodied, and reimagined.

ABOUT TRISTAN:

Tristan Koepke (he/him) is a dancer, educator, and choreographer. He is an Assistant Professor at Bates College, and is the Associate Director of the Bates Dance Festival Young Dancers Intensive. He has performed in dance works by Chris Schlichting, Vanessa Anspaugh, luciana achugar, Cally Spooner, Doug Varone, Heidi Henderson, Annie Kloppenberg, Matthew Cumbie, Christina Robson, Kendra Portier, and was a member of Zenon Dance Company from 2011-2015 and 2017-2019. His work has been presented by SPACE Gallery, Patrick’s Cabaret, The Wooden Floor, CANDYBOX Dance Festival, Performance Art Initiative, The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Bryant Lake Bowl, Bates College, and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center. He holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Photo Credit: Sammy Weidenthal