Who’s that person with the long name?

A graduate of the Devised Performance MFA program at UArts/Pig Iron school, Bellisant creates work that slaughters the high horses we ride around on and highlights the tiny details (and people) we tend to ignore.

When working in the vein of cabaret and stand-up, they particularly enjoy taking characters that don’t often appear on stage and flipping them on their axis to show new similarities between the mundane and the spectacular.

As for their work in the realm of video and film, Bellisant captures absurdist moments in a world that’s slightly off-kilter. Drawing inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock, Ernie Kovaks, 90s dog-treat commercials, and The Marx Brothers, the results are always silly, unexpected, and home-made.

Their work is personal and empowers the audience to confront the identities and assumptions we all hold. Most of all, Bellisant makes work that makes people laugh. Really laugh. Like belly-ache-rolling-on-the-floor laugh: at Bellisant, at themselves, at society, at whatever! No matter what, Bellisant’s going to remind their audiences that life is one big joke and it’s far more fun to laugh about it with others than alone. 

Oh and if you’re wondering, it’s pronounced “bell-uh-sawwnt”