AUNTS FESTIVAL 2025

featuring ClassClassClass, performances, dance parties, and auntie fellowship

@ DANSPACE PROJECT

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

mariana valencia. 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. kris lee. SHANA CRAWFORD. LAURIE BERG. LAURA OSTERHAUS. MARTITA ABRIL. AYANO ELSON. MATT SHALZI. MILLIE KAPP. AUTUMN KNIGHT. FANA FRASER.

AND MORE.

2025 Festival day by day

LOOKING BACK

AUNTS festival is organized and facilitated by jess pretty

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