SUR

COME DANCE WITH US. 

We’re throwing a party. 

Have a drink. Throw some ass. See some art.

We want to share with you our performance SUR.

SUR is a practice. This performance is one of many midpoints of an ongoing process in which we, Samuel y gizeh, explore how our identities intersect with the world we live in: presence, intimacy, grief, culture, mud, perreo, y más.

Featuring: 

YUCA FRITA 

gizeh muñiz vengel 

Samuel Melecio-Zambrano 

SAT 2/8/2025

Doors at 7:15pm

DJ set begins 7:30pm

Performance after the first set.

This event is FREE 

Capacity is LIMITED - RSVP required

BANDALOOP Studios, 18th Oakland CA

Space is ADA accessible but please email with specific access needs to as seating is limited: gizeh@gizzeh.com

Movement mentorship: Samy Nevarez

Photo by Kevin Martinez 

Artwork by marian himburg and gizeh muñiz vengel

About the artists 

Yuca Frita: 

 is a Bay Area born, Peruvian-American DJ whose high-energy, percussive, genre-blending sets synthesize Latin, Afro-Caribbean & club rhythms. Her sound has been described as a “rowdy, leftfield approach to reggaeton and dembow” (Resident Advisor). Mixing rambunctious edits with both well known and deep cuts, she plays in service to the hype with the intention to keep the dancers moving and pay homage to the club sounds of the global south.

Since the onset of her DJing career in 2021, she has played several notable events including Boiler Room and Outside Lands Music Festival, opening up for artists such as Tokischa, Ms Nina, MJ Nebreda, Bianca Oblivion and more.


gizeh muñiz vengel 

Mexicana. Currently co-existing in Ohlone territory

movement, teaching and performing artist

Dedicated to the study of being a breathing body.
They recreate body stories through touch, relationship, movement and stillness to explore new paradigms of temporality, relationality and intimacy.

An improviser and composer devoted to witness beauty and the cultivation of wonder and curiosity. She listens to the dialogue created from, with, and through their body and her movement practice is fluent in floor work, somatic practices and deep listening.

Samuel Melecio-Zambrano (they/them) 

non-binary, US-born, Venezuelan/Puerto Rican of African, European, and Indigenous descent. Samuel received a BFA in Dance from the University of South Florida and then moved to Melbourne, Australia, continuing their training, selling shoes, picking avocados, and jumping into water. Now a dancer, creator, and teacher residing on Ramaytush Ohlone land, they are keen to play, and see what can emerge from diving deeper and deeper into the present moment. Samuel has danced with BANDALOOP, Robert Moses' Kin, Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works, and Mark Foehringer Dance Projects, among others. 

Samy Nevarez 

Samy Nevarez graduated in 2017 from the Escuela Superior de Música y Danza de Monterrey, Mexico. She has collaborated with international and national artists, including Damien Jalet, Jasmin Vardimon, Hamid el Kabouss, Kaori Seki, Pietro Marullo, Gabriel Torres Morandi, and Miguel Pérez. 

This event is possible thanks to the support of the BANDALOOP Updraft Artist in Residency Program (funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts), and a Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grant.