Body Heat in Bosotn

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Saturday March 13, 2010 7pm
Body Heat: Femme Porn Tour 2010
at Lily Pad
1353 Cambridge Street Inman Square Cambridge, MA
$10

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Post-Snug press

Hey, this is cool.  Apparently we were part of a trend that’s ending a drought of women touring to Staten Island. We might not all be women but we’re happy to advance the cause!

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Femmes Take Staten Island

We had a great time at Snug Underground! Many thanks to Gena and the Snug Underground Festival for hosting us at the only venue we’ve ever performed at that has a giant preying mantis in the backyard.
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Tell-All Tuesday: Johnny Blazes

Johnny f’ing Blazes, people!  Ze gave me a real trip down memory lane with this one.  Makes me feel old just thinking about that first show.

Tell us about your first Femme Show
I performed in the very first Femme Show ever– in the basement of the UCC church in JP.  I performed “New Dawn”, a reverse striptease that I had been ready to create for a while and has since served me well, and a dance piece called “Inversation”, which was only performed those two nights.  I was fresh out of Oberlin, and still very interested in creating esoteric works that involved “serious dance,” as my mother calls it.  The piece was an improvisational dance score that I created with a jazz clarinetist who was very into experimenting with the noises he could get out of his instrument.  I think he is the only heterosexual, cisgendered man to have ever performed in The Femme Show.   We created a recording of my voice saying self-critical phrases about my dancing and my gender.  They were fed through a computer program and would happen at certain times during the piece, although I never knew which phrase would come up.  I wore a black petticoat (it was The Year of the Petticoat) and a short red satin dress with my fauxhawk.  I thought the piece was hilarious, but the audience was mostly silent– except for Maggie, who also found it hilarious.  I guess you had to be a dancer to appreciate jokes like “Retrograde!” and “You might want to try inverting that…”
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Press for Snug Underground!

We are getting ready to head out to the Snug Underground Festival in Staten Island. And by “getting ready” I mean counting t-shirts, sewing new bras, making pom-poms, visiting staples, and trying to fit my nasty old ankle wrap into a four inch ankle strap heel. And that’s just me. Across town M. Hanora is rolling around with a cinder block and Rachel is curating our collection of beer bottles and pizza boxes. As for the rest of the crew, I know only what twitter tells me…. Read an article about the festival, including an interview with yours truly here.

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Tell-All Tuesday: Maggie Cee

that’s meeeeeeeee!

Tell us about your first Femme Show
The success of the first show was a total shock to me.  My goal was to sell about 80 tickets – that would have been enough to break even and replenish my savings.  Instead we sold something like 300 and ran out of seats, toilet paper, and programs.

What have you been up to since October?
I went back to my roots in classical ballet and danced in the Urban Nutcracker, with pink tights and everything. I was taking ballet class almost every day and putting my feet in buckets of ice almost every night.  I put on tons of muscle and ate like a horse.  In between I tried to occasionally check femme show email and book some shows.  Then a few weeks ago I stepped of a step wrong and twisted my ankle so I am resting my body and getting ready to make this an awesome year for the Femme Show!

What makes the Femme Show so important?
We are bringing to the forefront some gender issues that don’t get talked about enough. Our inclusive stance is one of our best assets, because it means that we can explore femme and femininity from many different angles.
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Tell-All Tuesday Featuring Miss Gingerita

Tell us about your first Femme Show

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