Stuart B Meyers
Stuart Meyers is a multidisciplinary artist and ritual organizer. Inspired by the overlap in their queer and Jewish identities, Stuart creates rigorously camp performances and parties that are deeply meaningful and transformational. As a performer, Stuart has worked internationally alongside Colette Sadler, Julian Webber, Nick Cave, Ann Liv Young, Robert Wilson, Christopher Williams, Thomas Bo Nilsson, A.R.M., Tino Sehgal & Mina Nishimura. As a creator, Stuart’s work includes the ritual dinner party “*The Shabbos Queen*, a Queer & Dreamy Jewish Shabbat Dinner Delight & Extravaganza,” which has toured internationally since 2017, as well as several choreographic works including KOPFINO and WITCH DANCE, and installations such as PRIDE INSIIIDE (an uplifting gay gogo dance ritual in a storefront window) and TAP DANCING IN THE OUTFIELD (video installation). Stuart has received funding from the Berlin Cultural Senate, the BK Arts Council, and the NEA, and is a 2019-2021 NYLA Fresh Tracks Artist & CPR AIR and a 2018 danceWeb Scholar. Stuart organizes Brooklyn’s new queer Jewish dance party FLAMINGGG, is an educator for Ping Chong + Co, is a certified Hypnotist (IHF), and reads Tarot + Dreams through a Kabbalistic tradition (trained by Bonnie Buckner & Catherine Shainberg of the School of Images). Stuart also spins regularly as DJ Party Girl. @stuartbmeyers