Tuesday 15 July:
THE LAVENDER LIBRARY
Queen Elizabeth Hall
A panel of writers and performers celebrate the legacy of lesbian and gay literature by championing their favourite books and authors. Featuring
http://www.paulburston.com.html/
Rupert Smith on John Rechy,
Diana Souhami on Gertrude Stein.
David McAlmont on James Baldwin,
Stella Duffy on Patricia Highsmith,
Paul Burston on Pickles,
Andy Bell on Joe Orton,
Karen McLeod on Julia Darling, and
Julian Clary on EF Benson.
Presented by Suzi Feay, books editor of the Independent on Sunday.
The Lavender Library
Grown-up and intimate
Rich insight into the complex mixes of how we make our queer identities and how queer artists find their voices and confidence and inspiration
An easiness in this space and time that we are reminded we cannot take for granted
We forgave performance shortcomings because we trusted that we were being given authentic presentations - we believed all the presenters were bringing us what was true for them rather than something that was more about slick presentation - also that every presenter had chosen to bring something they genuinely cared about
And it felt friendly - i wanted to belong to/ in this group
Impressed at how comfortable each person seemed even when there were signs too of their nervousness
Amazed for the umpteenth time at where the hell Stella Duffy gets her fabulous chutzpah from.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008
Thursday, 3 July 2008
"bANGER - the power hour" (tara cheyenne friedenberg) - LIFT
wednesday 2nd july 2008
bANGER – The Power Hour
Tara Cheyenne Performance
http://liftfestival.com/Southbank-Centre_1337.aspx
Supported by the City of Vancouver / British Columbia Arts Council / Canada Council for the Arts
Seducing the audience with comic, character-driven sequences, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg fuses dance and theatre to create a powerful and memorable performance. Pushing extremes, bANGER – The Power Hour combines humour and satire to explore gender, masculinity and adolescence.
Morphing through fast-paced gender bending characterisations, Friedenberg takes us on a journey through the world of high school as seen through the eyes of a young man driven to find his place in the world.
Amazing transition from a quite delicate nubile young woman comically fantasising about being a man as she gymnastically dresses into actually becoming several versions of a man so convincingly in fact that even when I tried to see the woman inside the man i couldn't
So she gave us-
An adolescent dork being bullied and retreating into his fantasy of heavy metal music, world war two history, recording heavy-meaning poetry onto an answamachine. abortively
A gun expert turning into a bit of a lecherous creep turning into Nazi
and several other versions of maleness all precisely observed and completely recognisable
and all achieved through the power of her movement with a bit of help from lights and sounds
total commitment
bANGER – The Power Hour
Tara Cheyenne Performance
http://liftfestival.com/Southbank-Centre_1337.aspx
Supported by the City of Vancouver / British Columbia Arts Council / Canada Council for the Arts
Seducing the audience with comic, character-driven sequences, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg fuses dance and theatre to create a powerful and memorable performance. Pushing extremes, bANGER – The Power Hour combines humour and satire to explore gender, masculinity and adolescence.
Morphing through fast-paced gender bending characterisations, Friedenberg takes us on a journey through the world of high school as seen through the eyes of a young man driven to find his place in the world.
Amazing transition from a quite delicate nubile young woman comically fantasising about being a man as she gymnastically dresses into actually becoming several versions of a man so convincingly in fact that even when I tried to see the woman inside the man i couldn't
So she gave us-
An adolescent dork being bullied and retreating into his fantasy of heavy metal music, world war two history, recording heavy-meaning poetry onto an answamachine. abortively
A gun expert turning into a bit of a lecherous creep turning into Nazi
and several other versions of maleness all precisely observed and completely recognisable
and all achieved through the power of her movement with a bit of help from lights and sounds
total commitment
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