[Capdist-announce] The FEMME Show - 8-14 @ 9:30 pm

[Steamer No.10 Theatre]

The Femme Show

Part of Steamer No.10’s Eclectic Performance Series

 



 

Dates:             Sat. August 14 at 9:30 pm

Tickets:          $12 Gen. Adm. --  advance purchase discount

Location:        Steamer No.10 Theater - 500 Western Albany – 12203

Info:                518.438.5503    www.steamer10theatre.org
<http://www.steamer10theatre.org/>          info at steamer10theatre.org

 

 <http://www.thefemmeshow.com/> www.thefemmeshow.com

 

The Femme Show

 

The Femme Show Announces Northeast Tour, August 14-21, 2010

In the Streets Productions is proud to present The Femme Show on tour August
14-21, 2010.

 

Johnny Blazes, Maggie Cee, Geppetta, M. Hanora, Rachel Kahn and Mylène St
Pierre explore gender, queerness and sexuality with all the sass,
seriousness, and sophistication audiences have come to expect. This new
Femme Show uses burlesque, drag, spoken word, puppets, props, music, and
more to give audiences new ways and new reasons to think about gender,
femininity, and desire.

 

With dance, spoken word, burlesque, drag, and performance art from
award-winning artists, The Femme Show is the country’s only touring show
exploring all aspects of femme identity. This is queer art for queer people,
with a variety of diverse perspectives on queer femininity that can be
thoughtful, sad, funny, sexy, and fun. 

 

In October of 2007, the first-ever Femme Show sold out and received rave
reviews from audience members who called it “wild, raw, transparent, and
unique,” and “a fantastic, funny, powerful show.” Since then, The Femme Show
has been seen at True Colors, the country’s largest LGBTQI youth conference
(Storrs, CT); Emerson College (Boston), Machine (Boston), Queer Spirit Camp
(Greenwich, NY), headlining at Common Threads Youth Empowerment Retreat
(Stony Point, NY), New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Portland, ME.
Cast members have recently been seen with the Body Heat tour, FringeNYC,
ImprovBoston, Company One, and the Tranny Roadshow, among others.

 

Featured pieces include:

• “CHECK ONE PLEASE” is a humorous look at the conundrum of having to choose
a label for one's gender. Physical theater and gendered props overflow in
this exploration of the question: what must one give up when choosing a
label?

• “Hot Commodity”: In this sassy burlesque, a femme just wants to have fun,
but her sexuality is being co-opted everywhere she turns.

• Mylène St Pierre’s monologue explores fat kinky femme sexuality.

• In “Carrying” M. Hanora portrays a character struggling through a day
filled with obstacles that include hir feminine presentation.

• Johnny Blazes' monologue “Transcension” explores notions of "passing" in
the transgender and queer communities, using voice, music and movement to
express the discord of being a female-bodied transgendered person who
expresses hirself femininely.

• The etiquette mavens of the Society for the Preservation and Promotion of
Sapphic Social Mores invite the audience to join them on a world tour in
which they confront common queer and femme dilemmas.

• “Freaks and Fortunes” by Geppetta is an internal dialogue about the fears
and rationale of passing from the perspective of a trans woman, told through
beautiful puppets.

 

About the Artists

Johnny Blazes is known throughout Boston’s drag and burlesque scenes for hir
genre-bending, gender-blending, tongue-in-cheek performances. Ze received a
BA in Dance Performance at Oberlin College where ze founded OCircus! and
directed the 95-student group for three years. Ze has directed grassroots
circus groups across the country including a smaller touring version of
OCircus!, The Madcap Rumpus Society and The ExtraTerrestrial Circus
Experiment. Johnny is a regular performer at TraniWreck, the Midway, Jacques
Cabaret and colleges across New England. Ze is currently booking a tour of
hir one-person evening-length performance entitled wo(n)man show.
<http://www.johnnyblazes.com/> www.johnnyblazes.com           

 

Maggie Cee (artistic director) is an artist, activist, and teacher committed
to community, social change, and sequins. She performs regularly around
Boston and has also been seen at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York
City, at the Femme2008 Conference, in Boston’s Traniwreck, and at the
Stonewall Inn. Her essay, “notes to a young not-yet femme” was recently
published in the anthology Second Person Queer.

 

M. Hanora is a community organizer, abortion care provider, artist, and
writer. She was recently published in the anthology Queer and Catholic.
Mallory has performed in Boston at the Works in Progress series, Boston
University, Emerson College, the Boston Common, Jacques Cabaret, at parties
and special events, and with the Reflect and Strengthen Street Theatre
troupe. She graduated from the Emerson College Honors Program with a degree
in Writing and experience in the performing arts.

 

Rachel Kahn is a freelance writer, poet, and performer, but spends the vast
majority of her time pretending to be a therapist. Her work has been heard
at a variety of venues, including the Apocalypse Lounge, the Ear Inn Poetry
Series, and The New York Writers’ Coalition ‘Writing Aloud’ series. She has
performed at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, and makes
trouble on and off stage up and down the East Coast. Rachel is not ashamed
to tell you that she wrote a young adult novel, but will never let you know
what name she used.

 

Mylène St Pierre is a kinky Quebecois Femme who has been writing erotica and
smut for 15 years. She is also a queer activist, a community health worker
and a sexologist. Mylène hails from Montréal, Canada, place of all things
pleasurable and risqué, and is quite happy sharing her provocative and
filthy work . Her writing and performing has focused mostly on smut but she
has also performed locally with Big Moves, a size diversity dance troupe.
She feels very honored to be part of the Femme Show among such an amazing
cast of performers.

 

Adelaide Windsome, who performs under the name Geppetta, is a queer
fabulist, street performer, multimedia artist, and art educator currently
based in Philadelphia. Growing up fairly nomadic with a fear of dolls and an
overactive imagination, she naturally gravitated towards the lifestyle of a
traveling puppeteer. She has been a featured artist with Fresh Meat
Productions, Red Sun Press, Puppet Uprising, and the Philadelphia Rock 'n
Roll Camp for Girls, among others. 

 

Tour Dates Include:

 

Saturday, August 14 Worcester, MA 3 PM

Lucky Dog Lounge, 89 Green Street, Worcester, MA

 

Saturday, August 14, Albany, NY 9:30 PM

Steamer No.10 Theatre, 500 Western Ave, Albany, NY

 

Tuesday, August 17, Pittsburgh PA 6:30 PM

Shadow Lounge, 5972 Baum Blvd

 

Wednesday, August 18, Philadelphia, PA 9 PM

Lesbian Dorkestra opens!

Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave

 

Thu. Aug. 19, Philadelphia, PA

Smut, storytelling and poetry at Giovanni’s Room

 

Saturday, August 21, Baltimore, MD

The Wind Up Space, 10-12 W. North Ave.

 

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