CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
PERFORMANCE PROJECTS
SISTER NIGHTLIGHT
Sister Nightlight is a conversation between minimalism and magic, a soliloquy balancing at the tip of a crack, edging toward luminosity. In his new solo, award-winning Canadian dance artist George Stamos entwines storytelling, queer cruising techniques and dance with supernatural humour and vulnerability. Resourcing the sense of awe Stamos felt as a child running in the night wild animals in Nova Scotia and on queer dancefloors as a go-go dancer in urban centers, Sister Nightlight dives into a space between memory, feral imagination, and actuality, reflecting on the following questions: How can ideas about magic and kinship nourish connections to the audience? How can a live encounter invite viewers into imaginative portals of delight and intimacy? What's most important as we gather to share a dance and a story?
“… a daring fusion of performance art, dance improvisation, and narrative storytelling.. The audience was pulled into a dream state where logic dissolves into sensation…a symbolic unveiling of creativity in its most unguarded form… a liminal space where storytelling merges with movement, artifice transforms into authenticity, and childhood wonder meets adult flights of fancy.”
Deirdre Kelly, Critics At Large, March 11, 2025 (https://www.criticsatlarge.ca/2025/03/incandescent-visions-george-stamos.html#more)
RECURRENT MEASURES DELUXE
Recurrent Measures Deluxe (RMD) is a durational performance project that has toured across North America, in the UK and Argentina. Created for gallery and studio spaces, RMD evokes optimistic persistence as it oscillates between meditation and queer elation. RMD combines hypnotic circular motion and detailed flow with musical support by The Younger Lovers and original costumes by fashion designer Antonio Ortega. The cumulative actions, sound and costuming of RMD work towards progressively balancing the space, and viewers, across time between calm positivity and rhythmic energy.
Developed in residencies at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC, Dance4 in England and Par B.L.eux in Montréal, RECURRENT MEASURES premiered at Agora de la Danse in February 2018 to sold-out houses and critical acclaim. This project was supported by The Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE SHORT FILMS
SNAP, ARCHIE'S STORY
Winner of the 2022 Overcome Film Festival’s Best International Documentary Film Award, Archie's Story has screened at over 27 festivals worldwide. Archie's Story is the first chapter in a series of short video portraits of mature artists sharing stories of adversity they have faced with a part of their body, conceived and directed by George Stamos. Archie's Story features the dancing and distinct voice of NYC Vogue and Waacking icon Archie Burnett (AKA Grandfather of the House of Ninja). In this rare and vulnerable portrait of Burnett, vivid imagery and Archie’s narration come together to tell Archie's story of strength, resilience, and unwavering fierceness.Archie's Story received support from The Canada Council for the Arts.
ONE KIND FAVOR
This short dance film is partially inspired by the Blues song "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean," also known as "One Kind Favor," recorded by Blind Lemon Jefferson (1928). This film marries stark, moving images expressing solidarity between the players with the haunting song "Dead Man Singing" in a space between bottled-up rage, sorrow, and the question of kindness in the face of injustice.
"The measure of true kindness — which is different from nicety, different from politeness — is often revealed in those challenging instances when we must rise above the impulse toward its opposite, ignited by fear and anger and despair." Maria Popova, Marginalian Podcast
POTRERO HILL (walking with Sara)
Sara Shelton Mann and George Stamos play in this short dance film features soft, puckish, intimate interactions in lush foliage, accompanied by voice work inviting the viewer into the journey. Inspired by childhood memories of time spent in nature with friends while tuning into the fifth dimension, Potrero Hill (walking with Sara) is an intergenerational communion infused with love and mutual support.
SYZYGY
Syzygy (si·zuh·jee) is an abstract dance film following flashy club creatures on a playful cinematic search for fun, featuring performers Louise Lecavalier, Rémy Saminadin, George Stamos. In psychology, "syzygy" describes integrating different aspects of the self, such as the conscious and unconscious, the masculine and feminine, or the rational and irrational. In astrology, a syzygy is a straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies, such as the sun, moon, and earth, during a solar or lunar eclipse, so it's totally cosmic.