RUBY CABARET | Mile Zero Dance's 40th Anniversary Salon
As part of Connections//Collisions
Join us for two nights featuring two different artist line-ups! Two programs with a wide range of artists and the presentation of the Progressive Artist Award.
February 20 + 21
7:30 PM
$20 MZD Member
$25 General Admission
Mile Zero Dance is located at 9931 78 Ave NW
RUBY CABARET Night 1 (FEB 20) | Artist line-up features:
• Tia Kushniruk presents attempted everything / 1995 - ?
an attempt at everything right now
• Moses Motors presents Bowieoke
January 10, 2026 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of David Bowie. With his birthday two days prior on the 8th and my own date of birth being January 9, 1976, I will forever be held between the birth and death dates of the Starman.
Mere months before he passed, I pulled together a somewhat convincing look simulating Serious Moonlight 1980s era Bowie and sang Let’s Dance with a live band at a Halloween karaoke show. Right then and there, in my blue suit, polka dot tie, and bleached blonde hair, I decided to become a Bowie tribute artist. Wigs were ordered, makeup tips were procured, and a variety of songs and eras were explored at karaoke bars and thrift stores. But once he was gone and the worldwide tributes subsided, it just didn’t hit the same and I set aside my dreams of singing telegrams and hosting Bowieoke parties.
Seven years later, Moses Motors suddenly emerged from my psyche a fully formed drag persona. Enough time had passed for me to embrace the opportunity to revisit performing in tribute to David Bowie and delve into the time-honoured drag tradition of celebrity impersonation. And delve into Bowie I have, from singing Let’s Dance at my Fresh Fruits debut in May 2023, to co-producing two Bowie drag tribute shows in 2025 (Diamond Dawgs and Diamond Dawgs: Sound + Vision).
At the Ruby Cabaret, in the spirit of milestones, I bring you the Moses Motors Bowieoke experience, 10 years after Ziggy Stardust left this world and 50 years after I was born to this earthly plane.
• Medgine Mathurin (Poet Laureate)
Medgine Mathurin will present poems on the topic of tenderness and the body: To the Tender I Buried. Her poems will range from the themes of body image, chronic illness, and tenderness.
+ the evening will include the presentation of MZD's Progressive Artist Award!
RUBY CABARET Night 2 (FEB 21) | Artist line-up features:
• Danni Okemaw (Indigenous dance)
• Chris Bullough presents The Wild Truck
Country Music Entertainer, Tyler Wainwright Jr. shares a story between songs.
• Cindy Baker presents Hideous Fruit
In Hideous Fruit, Baker sets out to build a mutually compassionate relationship with a basket of strawberries.
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