GENESIS

Shaqira Knightly enters the world of theatre this September, in her new storytelling-dance-theatre show called GENESIS, where she transforms the stage into a futuristic queer pilgrimage that will bring all the most cultured club Queens to Dublin’s Lost Lane nightclub, for two amazing shows – and just before Mother Club kicks off at its home venue – running as part Dublin Fringe Festival 2025, in collaboration with Mother.

Shaqira’s GENESIS is an ‘exciting new show bursting with queer power’ and an invitation to abandon self-doubt and regenerate through dance. Revel in the transformative power of drag under the lights of a queer dancefloor. Come for the spectacle. Stay for the liberation. It’s Saturday night. Let’s dance.

GENESIS is the ‘kind of boundary-pushing, genre-defying work’ you’d expect at Dublin Fringe. So grit your teeth, shed your skin and dance to the electrifying beats. Bionic, stimulating & bare skinned, Shaqira Knightly embraces the power of self-belief through the art of becoming someone else. Join Shaqira and friends after the show to dance it out with Ireland’s best queer club night, Mother.

 

QUOTES:

Shaqira Knightly – Producer and Main Performer:

“Genesis is my story of queer power and rebirth. It’s a love letter to queer people that are in pursuit of their own true identity amidst all of the political and societal noise we face as a community. Join me and some incredible dancers as we storm the stage and rule the runway in a fierce expression of gender, sexuality and power. It’s an all-out Saturday night celebration and a dance show like no other. Let’s party.”