Creator · Producer · Performer
Saint
Stella
Multidisciplinary performance artist.
Over two decades at the intersection of dance, theatre, burlesque, and queer reclamation.
Creator · Producer · Performer
Multidisciplinary performance artist.
Over two decades at the intersection of dance, theatre, burlesque, and queer reclamation.
Saint Stella creates art to breathe life into buried stories that can be excavated and returned to the people, loudly and without shame.
Saint Stella is a Toronto-based performer, producer, and multidisciplinary theatre artist. Their work has lived at the intersection of dance, theatre, burlesque, and visual art for over two decades.
Stella has produced three consecutive sold-out Toronto Fringe productions — Lysistrata, Carmilla, and Mayhem at Miskatonic — each combining movement, text, and design into a unified theatrical experience. Saint Stella has performed twice at the Burlesque Hall of Fame, received an Emerging Queer Artist Award from Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and a Rainbow Community Arts Grant.
Stella's education is in visual art — BFA Photography, Toronto Metropolitan University. She sees their work as visual art and storytelling through the body of a dancer; interested in how images and bodies occupy space, and how power and sensuality moves through a room.
Theatre
Paris, 1928. This is Louise Weber: the woman who invented the cancan, seduced princes and made the Moulin Rouge famous. Toulouse-Lautrec painted her. Journalists destroyed her. Nobody let her speak. Until now.
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"St. Stella wows as the leading lady, managing her team of wild women with exasperation every woman can relate to, and a coy confidence most of us dream of having."
Mooney on Theatre — Lysistrata"The sleeper hit of the festival, this bawdy adaptation of Aristophanes' classic play used burlesque and humour to dazzle and entertain audience members at The Painted Lady."
Broadway World — Lysistrata, Toronto Fringe"Kulagowski stuns with a burlesque performance that questions our use of the earth and what we refuse to accept or reveal. Her number is the crux of the Masque of the Red Death as the tease and glee become commentary and critique."
Drew Rowsome — Masque of the Red Death