Charles Peoples III posing in front of a lush green forest. Their hand is on their shoulder.

Charles Peoples III

is a sonic changemaker. Their work encompasses performance art, music composition, poetry, and choreography. With a focus on the convergence of sound, technology, and spirituality, they create experiences that traverse realms of mysticism, queerness, and transformation.

Photo by Leah Sanginiti

  • (A)TEMPORALITIES

An immersive and multimedia work that explores individual and collective misremembering.

Through extended vocal techniques and with the aid of gesture-controlled technology, they loop and manipulate their voice, dancing between the form and formless.

  • Charles Peoples III swimming underwater. His arms are reaching out and there's dead coral reefs all around.

    ALIEN UNDER

A freediving dance short film.

A dance performance set amidst an eerie, nearly lifeless underwater landscape. It speaks to a delicate ecosystem in peril.

  • Charles Peoples III is facing away from the camera on a beach in San Francisco California. He is dancing, with his arms and head raised up.

    THE LONELY LIFE IS SO FULL

A spoken word and dance short film.

This piece explores the juxtaposition of obligations, those placed on us and the ones we place on ourselves, and the consequences of their demands.

I seek radical self-knowledge, communal healing, and spiritual transcendence.

Through my creative practice,

Charles Peoples III wearing gold and purple makeup. This is a portrait from the chest up, with a gold necklace. His hand is pressed against his face.