Making Waves Week 1A: Porscha Shaw, Parmida Ziaei, Crip Riot
Thursday and Friday, October 21-22
Porscha Shaw
Ebony, I Love You
Solo Show/Musical Performance – Ebony, I love you is an exploration piece around my love for black woman. It’s contains many messages I want to communicate to black women that come from love. It’s my love letter.
ID: a Black woman with an afro looks into the camera with a thoughtful expression. She wears a white sweater against a gray background.
Parmida Ziaei Dance Company
Journey
Dance – We are all immigrants. Some have travelled across the world, and some have just been on a journey from their past selves. Either way we all leave things behind: homes, loved ones, a past that is no longer with us. Maybe just knowing that will bring us closer together.
ID: black and white image. A woman on the left leans back, one arm up, hair covering her body. Curved black lines of various thickness stretch from her to the edges of the photograph, except for the bottom right corner.
Crip Riot
Inspiration Porn Star
Comedy – What happens to that cute little disabled girl after she’s no longer the picture perfect poster child and grows up? Well, let’s just say there aren’t any disabled dykes modeling for charity events for a reason… yet. Even so, she could still probably rob a bank by asking for help to have the vault door opened – who says she can’t use their own stereotypes against them?
ID: a black and white image of a butch woman in a wheelchair against a collage of newspaper clippings. In bold text “Inspiration Porn Star.” Smaller text reads: “Performance by Lindsey Muszkiewicz. Oct 21-22.” Splashes of green and purple throughout.
Porscha Shaw
Solo Show/Musical Performance – Ebony, I love you is an exploration piece around my love for black woman. It’s contains many messages I want to communicate to black women that come from love. It’s my love letter.
ID: a Black woman with an afro looks into the camera with a thoughtful expression. She wears a white sweater against a gray background.
Parmida Ziaei Dance Company
Dance – We are all immigrants. Some have travelled across the world, and some have just been on a journey from their past selves. Either way we all leave things behind: homes, loved ones, a past that is no longer with us. Maybe just knowing that will bring us closer together.
ID: black and white image. A woman on the left leans back, one arm up, hair covering her body. Curved black lines of various thickness stretch from her to the edges of the photograph, except for the bottom right corner.
Crip Riot
Comedy – What happens to that cute little disabled girl after she’s no longer the picture perfect poster child and grows up? Well, let’s just say there aren’t any disabled dykes modeling for charity events for a reason… yet. Even so, she could still probably rob a bank by asking for help to have the vault door opened – who says she can’t use their own stereotypes against them?
ID: a black and white image of a butch woman in a wheelchair against a collage of newspaper clippings. In bold text “Inspiration Porn Star.” Smaller text reads: “Performance by Lindsey Muszkiewicz. Oct 21-22.” Splashes of green and purple throughout.
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Performer Bios
Porscha Shaw
Porscha Shaw is a graduate of the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington. She is a native of Richmond, Texas and a graduate of Santa Fe University of Art and Design where she majored in Drama under the training of Jon Jory. Her Seattle credits include: Seattle Seattle Rep’s Shout Sister Shout and NINA SIMONE’s Four Women, Upstart Crow’s Richard III,The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion, Lamplighter,12 Ophelias, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Sound Theatre’s Hoodoo Love, As You Like It, The Octavia, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Wooden O’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Force Continuum.
Parmida Ziaei Dance Company
Parmida Ziaei: Born and raised in Iran, Parmida Ziaei is a performer, choreographer and designer currently based in Seattle. Parmida started dancing at a young age with training in classical Ballet, and from there expanded to many other dance styles including Classical Persian dance, competitive ballroom dancing (Latin and standard dances), and Contemporary. She has been teaching, performing and choreographing dance and theatre performances nationally and internationally. Parmida often brings together the intricacy and elegance of Classical Persian dance, the freedom of contemporary movement and fierceness of Latin dance to tell a story.
Also performing: Stephanie Su, Nakisa Dehpanah
Crip Riot (Lindsey Muszkiewicz)
Lindsey Muszkiewicz is a recent University of Washington grad, graduating Cum Laude with a bachelors degree in Comparative History of Ideas and Disability studies, and a recipient of the Dean’s Medal in Humanities. She is a former intern for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and a current member of the Writers Access Support Staff Training Program run through The Writers Guild Foundation.
Lindsey has four years of experience working in her student government’s Student Disability Commission, where she helped co-found the F*** Stairs Campaign, now being made nationally available as a campaign that can be implemented to colleges everywhere. She is also the Creative Director of Crip Riot, a newly launched disability-run brand working to create a space for disability identity pride, focusing on fostering a more positive and healthier relationship on how we perceive disability and disabled body/minds.
Lindsey’s passionate about movies, comedy, and her several pets, which she spoils more than they should be.
Also performing this week is Disabled List. See their program here.
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This event is sponsored by Crip Riot.