August Outdoor Queer Dance Workshop with Maggie Cee and Angelina Benitez

Queer Dance Workshops are a chance for queer folks of all identities and experiences to connect through dance. Featuring a rotating roster of teachers and dance styles, these workshops are a time to simply dance around joyfully with other queer people. These special workshops will be held outside near Egleston Square in Jamaica Plain.

Our July workshop will feature ballet with Maggie Cee and contemporary play with Angelina Benitez!
Maggie Cee is founder and director of “The Femme Show”, a variety show featuring dance, spoken word, performance art, and drag exploring queer femininity. Her solo dance/theater performance, "Ladies at a Gay Girls' Bar, 1938-1969" is available for touring and can be seen next at Women's Week in Provincetown in October 2024. She co-founded the “Dancing Queerly” Festival with J. Michael Winward. Teaching ballet is Maggie’s “day job” and her passion. Maggie has presented “Ballet is For Everyone” at LGBTQ youth conferences and the 2012 Femme Conference and received a Boston Pride Foundation grant for a series of Queer Ballet classes in 2015.
Angelina (Angie) Benitez graduated Salem State University with a B.A in both Modern/Contemporary Dance and Spanish World, Language, and Culture. Her choreography at Salem State was presented at Boston’s American College Dance Association Conference and earned her a Presidential Arts Scholarship and a Creativity Award in Dance. She particularly enjoys collaborative choreography–especially with her partner, Rebecca Lang. She has recently enjoyed working as the Administrative Fellow at Bates Dance Festival. When Angie isn’t pursuing Arts Administration, she teaches dance locally and presents her collaborations throughout the Greater Boston area at events including, Salem Arts Festival, Dancing Queerly, Mind the Gap, Tiny & Short: A Drop in the Bucket, and OnStage360°.

Exact location details will be sent to registrants. Some parking is available. It is about a 10 minute walk from Stony Brook on the Orange Line and near bus stops for busses 42, 22, 44, and 29.

There is a question about access needs in registration. In particular, if you need ASL interpretation please note it in your rsvp or email me at [email protected] as it is often easier to get interpretation with a confirmed need. Unfortunately, I will need at least a week's notice to ensure interpretation.

Workshops are free, but please consider donating (no more than $20) to help pay our wonderful teachers.

Host or Publisher Jo Troll Dance/Boston Queer Dance Workshops