August 29, 2026 at Gray Area
Gray Area presents the world premiere of Ambrose Trataris’s hybrid virtual reality performance blending contemporary dance, drag artistry, and queer worldbuilding.
On August 29, Ambrose Trataris aka Cy Berspace, in collaboration with Gray Area, will present the world premiere of Daisy-Chain<><><>Star-Connection: a hybrid format, collaborative, multimedia dance performance that incorporates contemporary choreography, drag artistry, 3D world design, and motion capture technology. Born from concepts of queer worldbuilding, the work is an immersive and interactive performance piece that explores the act of seeing and engaging in virtual and physical realities simultaneously. Join us for the debut of this pioneering, experimental performance, which will showcase iconic queer Bay Area performers live on-stage and in virtual reality.
Ambrose Trataris: Daisy-Chain<><><>Star-Connection
Saturday, August 29, 2026
Performance 1: 2:30 PM Doors
Performance 2: 6:30 PM Doors
All Ages
Seated Performance
Strobe Warning
View Gray Area’s FAQ page for more info, or contact us at info@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.
Breaking through notions of anonymity and isolation associated with technological social spaces, Daisy-Chain<><><>Star-Connection imagines how mixed reality can serve as an integration tool for people inhabiting a socially transgressive body. From the bedroom to the club, being seen is both a freedom and a danger, and this live performance work embraces the poetic turbulence of feeling out of place in a safe space.
The performance is set in a night club with go-go dancers on stage mirrored by holograms of their virtual counterparts. Audiences follow these characters on an adventurous evening out, experiencing intimate moments of connection in the green room, the highs of the big solo number, and the eventual need to escape. Set to a backdrop of visuals created in virtual reality and a score of original music, each character grows more comfortable with their virtual embodiment building a new world. This ensemble dance work explores individual character-based movements to group choreography, where characters find themselves in their bodies and finally collapse into a collective sleepy hysteria akin to the chillout room at a rave.
Daisy-Chain<><><>Star-Connection is presented in collaboration with Gray Area and with support from The Kenneth Rainin Foundation and The Map Fund.
Daisy-Chain<><>Star-Conection brings together an incredible group of collaborators. Each avatar has been lovingly co-designed and built by Whisper, embracing a sci-fi and fantastical transgender reimagining of embodiment. Dramaturgy and choreography was crafted in collaboration with Kim Ip, lighting design by gg, and costumes by House of Perception. The work is set to a soundtrack of original music by Mahawam, Ten Travesauras, Dollii PKC, LBXX, SÍMBÁ, and X Medinoche.
