Water Follows Salt

Overview

A vulnerable and charged mixed media, interdisciplinary exploration of time, the self and Black, Native trans and queer futurism. In a world where the distillation of the human experience can lead to echo chambers and a numbing of joy and possibility, the artist takes us on a journey of their diaspora using vocals, circus arts, drag, modern and traditional instrumentation to ask: What is the price of salt, who are we and what do we risk becoming, when we put rigid values around our processes and expressions?

Note: the 9/15 performance of this show has been canceled.

About the Artist

Zelos Marchandt is often called a real polymath and renaissance man. Vocalist, circus artist, director, producer, playwright, poet, journalist, documentarian, public speaker and educator (originally from Nashville, TN and based since childhood in the pacific northwest) since his youth, his creations have taken him coast to coast and abroad. His classical background expands easily into visionary concepts and multiple disciplines, revealing a force of nature at the helm. Projects have often focused on sex, gender, race, and social historyEspecially Black and Indigenous trans, gender non-conforming and queer heritage and history. Zeloszelos is the Artistic Director of T & A Grand Theater and the Executive Director of Tauraro Artist in Residency and Film Festival (previously the Ten, Tiny, Talk Festival) an artist in residency for Black and Indigenous trans and queer artists both founded by him in 2020. He co-founded the West Coast Black Circus collective in 2022 and has written two plays, After The Riot and I Turned It Over (written with comedienne MX. Dahlia Delu Belle )Water Follows Salt is his first solo-immersive circus piece.