WHO WE ARE…
The Fly Honeys
are a femme-powered,
queer-celebratory,
all-body loving,
smoke-show of a
performance project
where pleasure is king
and politics favor
the queens.
We are dancers, collaborators, mothers, cousins, doctors, daughters, DJs, teachers, friends, writers, actors, arts administrators, bartenders, babysitters, musicians, matriarchs, they-triarchs, queers, dykes, honeys, homies, brothers, sisters, enbys, boys, bois…. a whole damn Hive.
We are creative shape-shifters.
We have been an illegal underground party, a six-week-sold-out-theatrical run, a quick weekend in a warehouse, a series of open public dance workshops, a virtually streamed pandemic production, a mutual aid support system, a group of go-go dancers, back up dancers, single nightlife acts, featured at a major summer music festival, a decade-plus long social art practice, a NYE conga line at a Michelin-star restaurant, and an ever evolving community.
Most recently, we have been a multi-night, fuck-off resident production at iconic Chicago music venue, Thalia Hall.
No matter our form, we stay Fly.
We make performances that pull in dance, cabaret, variety, music and comedy through high-energy choreography, grand spectacle, a rotating cast of nationally lauded artists, and some real funny bitches.
Our work is deeply indebted to the dance forms and cultures created by and for women, strippers, showgirls, burlesque artists, radicalized queer spaces, Black and Brown creative expressions and activist frameworks.
From these cultures, we have learned that organizing bodies in motion is a community-building practice; that singing, dancing, shaking ass, and being naked in every sense is a catalyst for change.
Gender is FLUID.
Sexuality is a spectrum.
Glitter, glitter everywhere.
Long live Honey.
Want the Fly Honeys to come to your town? Give us a buzz.