Performance

Red Rice

1 upcoming performance in New York

“Red Rice” arrives at Little Island as a live performance work in New York City, staging a loose, genre-crossing meditation on identity, appetite, and the stories bodies carry. The featured lineup—Justin Vivian Bond, Tama Gucci, Nita Aviance, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Qween Jean—signals a dialogue between downtown cabaret, club lineage, and contemporary classical voice. While its NYC premiere history isn’t widely documented, the piece reads as part of a longer city tradition of artists using hybrid form to test what community can sound like. One clear strength is how it lets the performers’ distinct vocabularies stay unresolved rather than neatly unified.