BIGKID DANCE:

If I Die Before the Revolution

WORLD PREMIERE

Saturday, September 20th, 2025 @ 7:30PM

Tickets from $35 to $45

Philadelphia's BigKid Dance presents the world premiere performance of their newest contemporary dance-theater work, If I Die Before the Revolution, this fall at Maryland Hall. 

If I Die Before the Revolution acts as a fantasized eulogy and valediction for a group of queer people trying to survive a crumbling world chasing them to their doom.

This dance work portrays a paracosm of a queer experience in today’s society, reflecting fear, love, identity crisis, loneliness, death, a yearning for unrealized dreams and a hope to leave behind an impactful legacy. As time ticks down to the inevitable end, the ‘queer’ archetype deals with the reality of feeling invisible while fighting to stake their

Led by luminary artistic director Mark Caserta, Big Kid Dance is a queer movement community based in Philadelphia. They create collaborative, thought-provoking contemporary dance works reflecting on love, grief, curiosity, fear and identity in today’s society primarily through a queer lens.