AUNTS FESTIVAL 2025

JUNE 16-21 @ DANSPACE PROJECT

featuring ClassClassClass, performances, dance parties, and auntie fellowship

AUNTS festival is made possible with support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. festival collaborators: the Chocolate Factory Theater, Movement Research, Danspace Project. AUNTS festival is in the ‘off-season’ series at Danspace.

FESTIVAL ARTISTS

JONATHAN GONZÁLEZ. JESI COOK. LeSLIE CUYJET. JESS PRETTY. CHARMAINE WARREN. JASMINE HEARN. TESS DWORMAN. BESSIE MCDONOUGH-THAYER. STEPHANIE ACOSTA. RENA ANAKWE. DARRIN WRIGHT. HADLEY SMITH. WENDELL GRAY. ALEXA GRAE. ARIANA SPEIGHT. BRIA BACON. KATRINA REID. MYSSI ROBINSON. SHANA CRAWFORD. LAURIE BERG. ANNA ADAMS STARK. LAURA OSTERHAUS. MARTITA ABRIL. AYANO ELSON. MATT SHALZI. MILLIE KAPP. AUTUMN KNIGHT. FANA FRASER.

AND MORE.

FESTIVAL EVENT SCHEDULE

JUNE 10

CLASSCLASSCLASS @ DANSPACE PROJECT, 10-12,  LED BY JONATHAN GONZALEZ

JUNE 12

CLASSCLASSCLASS @ DANSPACE PROJECT, 10-12, LED BY JESI COOK

JUNE 16

PERFORMANCES AT 7:30 PM BY

CHARMAINE WARREN + JASMINE HEARN. TESS DWORMAN. BESSIE MCDONOUGH-THAYER. STEPHANIE ACOSTA. JESS PRETTY. 

JUNE 17

CLASSCLASSCLASS @ DANSPACE PROJECT, 10-12, LED BY LESLIE CUYJET (followed by lunch)

PERFORMANCES @ 7:30P BY

RENA ANAKWE. STEPHANIE ACOSTA. DARRIN WRIGHT. HADLEY SMITH. JESI COOK. 

JUNE 19 - CLASSCLASSCLASS @ DANSPACE PROJECT, 10-12P, LED BY JESS PRETTY

JUNETEENTH COOKOUT @ DANSPACE COURTYARD, 12-4P

PERFORMANCES AT 7:30P BY

WENDELL GRAY, ALEXA GRAE, ARIANA SPEIGHT, BRIA BACON, KATRINA REID, MYSSI ROBINSON, JESS PRETTY

JUNE 21 - PERFORMANCES @ DANSPACE PROJECT @ 7:30P BY

SHANA CRAWFORD. LAURIE BERG + ANNA ADAMS STARK. LAURA OSTERHAUS. MARTITA ABRIL. STEPHANIE ACOSTA. AYANO ELSON. MATT SHALZI + MILLIE KAPP. AUTUMN KNIGHT. FANA FRASER.

AUNTS festival is organized and facilitated by jess pretty

with support from AUNTIES: Stephanie Acosta, Laurie Berg, Shana Crawford, Maggie Heath, Niall Jones, Hadley Smith and Anna Adams Stark