Burning Bones Events
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Beautiful Eunuchs, 2026
“Beautiful Eunuchs” explores the divergent demands, pleasures, limitations, opportunities, and satisfactions ascribed in our culture to different genders. In a cultural moment when reactionary authoritarians elevate compliant caricatures of gender, “Beautiful Eunuchs” dares to embody and expose the insubordinate multidimensionality of our ungovernable selves.
“Beautiful Eunuchs” premieres August 28-30th at The Anchor in Atlanta, GA. Featuring performances by Thomas Bell, Sharon C. Carelock, Hiroko Kelly, Holly Stevenson, and Frankie Worster Mulinix.
Past
Water Birth: throw me to my mother, 2026
“Water Birth: Throw Me to My Mother” is a part of the 8th Annual National Water Dance on April 18th at Mason Mill Park in Decatur, GA. Inspiration for the work drew from the following quotes:
“They threw me on the ground, thinking that it would humiliate me. They didn’t know that they thew me to my mother,” Trudell.
“When I’m caught between a rock and a hard place, let me be water. Let me be water. Let me be water,” John Roedel.
Featuring performances by Thomas Bell, Sharon C. Carelock, Hiroko Kelly, Frankie Worster Mulinix, Kente Simone, and Holly Stevenson.
(Ir)reparable, 2025
How can love and hope persist when everything is broken and all the world seems beyond repair? “(Ir)Reparable” — a butoh-based performance by Burning Bones Physical Theatre — is an elegiac hallucination of chaos and cruelty, an alchemical transformation of our collective collapse, and a defiant incantation of justice and resilient joy.
“(Ir)Reparable” premiered September 12-20th, 2025 at the Windmill Arts Center in East Point, GA. Featuring performances by Thomas Bell, Sharon C. Carelock, Hiroko Kelly, Holly Stevenson, and Frankie Worster Mulinix.
Hysteria, 2024
“Hysteria” explores through a queer lens the evolution of “symptoms” that have in turn been associated with religious experience, signs of witchcraft, and symptoms of mental illness; gendered attitudes to mental health and the expression of emotions; identities considered "other"; and navigating contemporary experiences of (dis)connection, sexuality, memory, and desire.
“Hysteria” premiered November 15-24, 2024 at the Windmill Arts Center in East Point, GA.
Featuring:
Spoken word poetry by Mykal Alder June
Butoh dance performances by Thomas Bell, Sharon Carelock, Hiroko Kelly, Elizabeth Sears, and Holly Stevenson.
Original music composition by James Glasgow
6th Annual National Water Dance, 2024
6th Annual National Water Dance premiered at Sweetwater Creek State Park in Lithia Springs, GA on April 20th, 2024. Featuring performances by Thomas Bell, Holly Stevenson, Femmaeve MacQueen, Kyo Brown, Elizabeth Sears, and Colin Delargy. The crew was Frankie Worster Mulinix and Ben Mulinix.
small mouth sounds, 2024
Featuring performances by Damian Jason White, Emily Zart, Thomas Bell, Holly Stevenson, Sharon C. Carelock, Jaborice Knight, and Kat Stoneback. The crew was Frankie Mulinix, Juniper Lee Blankenship, Benjamin Mulinix, Garret Nesselrode, Mykal Alder June, and Lindsey Sharpless.
make it gay: a queer cabaret fundraiser, 2024
“Make it Gay: A Queer Cabaret Fundraiser” premiered February 10th, 2024 at the Windmill Arts Center in East Point, GA.
Featuring performances by Ellie Cerceaux, Vandellous, Thomas Bell, Frankie Love Edwards, Theresa Davis, Boris Karhop, Dorothea Dumonde, Emily Zart, Daman Jason White. The crew was Juniper Lee Blankenship, Benjamin Mulinix, Holly Stevenson, Jaborice Knight.
why do i only hear you when you scream/ everything was beautiful and nothing hurt, 2023
“Why Do I Only Hear You When You Scream?” and “Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt” premiered May 28th and June 2nd, 2023 at Westside Park and the Westside Trail Connector in Atlanta, GA. Featuring performances by Thomas Bell, Frankie Mulinix, Emily Zart. The crew was Juniper Lee Blankenship and Benjamin Mulinix.
Malicious compliance, 2023
“Malicious Compliance” was developed through the Reiser Atlanta Artists Lab at Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA. Special Thanks and Gratitude to Nicolette Emanuelle, Jase Wingate, and Tommy Sullivan-Lovett for their contribution to the development of Malicious Compliance during the Reiser Lab process.
Susan V. Booth, Jennings Hertz Artistic Director
Mike Schleifer, Managing Director
In addition, Burning Bones Physical Theatre would like to thank PushPush Arts, SeedWorks, and the Windmill Arts Center for their support.
Featuring performances by Ava Davis, Anna Newbury, Emily Zart, Holly Stevenson, Humlao Evans, Jordyn King, Kat Stoneback, and Jennifer Skura Boutell.