Noname Artist is a New York-based contemporary dance company created in 2015 by Roderick George that “strives to use art as a form of protest and healing method to find agency,” according to its website.
Seven of the company’s male dancers will perform “The Grave’s Tears” Friday at 8 p.m. at Guild Hall. The work examines the physical and psychological toll of systemic oppression, violence, and erasure against the L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ community by “focusing on queer bodies as vessels of memory where grief, resistance, intimacy, and survival coexist.”
Drawing from the spirit of the disco era, the work reflects a time when joy, music, and collective celebration became radical acts of defiance. Set against the legacy of the H.I.V./AIDS epidemic and widespread abandonment, it expresses the fragility of communities forced to grieve in isolation.
Tickets are $69.
George Civeris, a writer and performer whose debut special, “A Sense of Urgency,” was cited by The New York Times as one of the best comedies of 2025, will host an evening of stand-up comedy at Guild Hall on Sunday at 7 p.m.
Civeris was named one of comedy’s bright new faces by the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival and one of Vulture’s “Comedians You Should and Will Know.” His StraightioLab was named the top podcast of 2022 by New York magazine.
Organized and emceed by Civeris, the show features Liza Treyger, whose hour-long special “Night Owl” debuted last year on Netflix; Julia Shiplett, a comedian, writer, and actor who has been named a TBS Comic to Watch and a Comedy Central Up Next Comedian, and Jake Cornell, a comedian, actor, and writer who has appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe, Joe’s Pub, and the Gramercy Theater.
Guild Hall promises an evening packed with “fresh perspectives, unexpected turns, and laugh-out-loud moments.” Tickets are $69.
