SLAMDANCE garage is a solo performance on punk and blackness. Nestled somewhere between performance art, a rock show, and an one-act opera, Ian Andrew Askew hurdles through an hour of music, movement, and text celebrating the absurdity of explaining Black people’s participation in their own culture.

“If I was black and normal I’d still get fucked with, so I might as well do what I want to do and just take my chances.”
-Marlon Whitfield, Another State of Mind (1984)

SLAMDANCE garage, 2025
The Bushwick Starr
produced in association with Oye Group
created and performed by Ian Andrew Askew
movement direction by Justin Allen
production design by Cheyanne Williams
sound design by Anthony Sertel Dean
lighting design by Itohan Edoloyi
costume associate Noah Willis-Hogan
stage manager Sydneii Colter
assistant stage manager Malena Logan
audio description by Shara Lunon
line producer Alverneq Lindsay
photos by Maria Baranova

work-in-progress showing (2021) presented by Towards A New Collectivity: The Performing Garage in partnership with Kaneza Schaal // supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant // design by Cheyanne Williams and Gabriele Preston // additional support from David Glista, Andres Abenante, and Camila Ortiz

presented in progress as
SLAMDANCE basement, 2019
Arts @ 29 Garden
design by Gabriele Preston
support from James Stanley and Andrew Gitchel