The Qube Chix (composer/performance artist Pamela Z, choreographer/ movement artist Leigh Evans, and singer/performance artist Julie Queen) formed in 1991 San Francisco and were active for many years – working in a variety of media spanning from interdisciplinary experimental theater to minimalist new wave and avant-cabaret music. Their performances are an explosion of aural and visual textures combining classically trained voices, Asian influenced movement forms, new music composition and electronic processing with a theater of imagery. Slow motion movement compliments 16mm black and white film in an integration of live and cinematic motion.
They have performed as a new music vocal ensemble and as 5-piece band with drummer J Why and bassist/clarinetist Hillary Maroon. They performed in theaters, performance galleries, and night clubs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The Qube Chix are known for leaving a trail of bald (and partially bald) men in their wake due to the on-stage shaving that occurs when they perform one of their signature songs, Bald Boyfriend.
The Qube Chix developed a multi-disciplinary performance work Stich-tche-na-ko, in collaboration with filmmaker Paul Lundahl and Harpist Barbara Imhoff, which premiered at Theater Artaud in San Francisco in 1991. They then developed an interdisciplinary work Circle of Bone during artist residencies at Yellow Springs Institute in Pennsylvania and at the University of Nebraska's Experimental Black Box Theater. They had touring engagements at The Knitting Factory and CBGB's Gallery in New York and at theaters and galleries in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska.
In 2025, The Qube Chix reunited to create a multi-layered evening of performance with The Living Earth Show, which premiered at Roar Shack Live! in downtown San Francisco.
“This is important work. Without question the world, and for certain the U.S. culture, needs to re-communalize. But this will not happen without the rediscovery of what song, image, movement, dance and primal theater have to offer us uncommunalized humans. The Qube Chix hint that some and probably others are about the task, that despair has not yet been laminated to the walls of our imaginations, and that hope is as close as the song and dance of the nearest living cell, if only we trust its promise.”
THE QUBE CHIX CIRCLE OF BONE BY DOUG PATERSON, DEPT. HEAD-THEATER ARTS at THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA Performed Sat. March 13, 1993 at The Experimental Black Box Theater, UNO, Omaha, Nebraska