Greg Wong aka Wrong Note Rusty
performer & photographer
What the Nominator shared: Performs in an international touring premier boylesque group. He's also a photographer. He’s a captivating performer who uses creativity, humour, sexuality, gender fluidity, talent and pure joy.
In their own words: Greg Wong is a queer multidisciplinary artist and community worker of Chinese heritage based in Toronto. His practice has included writing, music, photography, performance art and dance. Under the stage name Wrong Note Rusty, he's been a member of BoylesqueTO, Canada's Premiere Boylesque Troupe, since 2009. Rusty has toured as a solo artist in burlesque,comedy and fringe theatre festivals all over Europe and North America, and had his bare butt censored on national television on Canada’s Got Talent. When he's not at work at one of him many jobs he can be found on his bicycle, on a dancefloor, or on the couch with his cat.
CanAsian Dance is situated in Tkaronto, a Mohawk word meaning “the place in the water where the trees are standing.” It is the traditional territory of many nations, including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples, and it continues to be the home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
This land is under the Dish with One Spoon covenant, an agreement between the Anishinaabeg and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. This land is a dish to be shared and cared for and we all share one spoon; the spoon is to be used to take only what is needed and to leave enough for others, thus ensuring a viable and abundant future. We recognize the enduring resilience of Indigenous peoples and we acknowledge that we are accountable to these relationships and these agreements.
We carry these values of responsibility in sharing and caring in abundance with consideration of not only ourselves but of our communities that we share together.
