What We Do
Amuse Bouche Company is a performing arts and experimental theater company based in Denver focused on creating queer and disabled pop culture. We make provocative movement-based work in the space where pop culture, disability justice, queer joy and critical inquiry collide, at times more literally than figuratively. If you’ve ever tried to figure out why a joke is funny, you’ve come to the right place.
Who We Are
Sheila Klein
Sheila is a queer and disabled multidisciplinary artist, performer, choreographer and educator. Their work follows a trajectory in which the collision of tenderness, humor, and grief is both constant and unexpected. Sheila’s work is notorious for eliciting delight, discomfort, and disillusionment; for being too much and not enough all at once.
Sheila’s movement-based work is heavily informed by professional training in postmodern dance, physical theater, and by disability justice.
Prior to becoming disabled, Sheila trained and performed in New York City, Ann Arbor, and Detroit with Monica Bill Barnes, Amy Chavasse, Robin Wilson, Peter Sparling, Stephanie Liapis, Xan Burley and Alex Springer. Sheila’s work has been presented by Triskelion Arts, Greenspace Project, Movement Research, Ann Arbor Dance Works, and The University of Michigan.
Masha Mikulinsky
Masha is an Eastern-European queer and disabled interdisciplinary artist, designer, and writer.
Masha’s work engages with awkwardness, cultural somatics, the practice of anti-oppressive methodologies, relationship, multi-modal translation, and play.
Masha has 15 years of training in somatics and embodiment practices, holds a Bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and a Master's degree in Somatic Counseling Psychology, both from Naropa University in Boulder, CO. During most business hours, Masha works as a somatic psychotherapist with multicultural folks, queer folks, and artists at Third Culture Counseling & Consulting.
Photo credit: Valeria Heine Photography