March 7th, 2010 maggie
Today we catch up with our multi-talented queer librarian, Alana!
Tell us about your first Femme Show
As much as I loved performing in the show itself, my favorite part of my first Femme Show experience was all the stuff that led up to the performances: playing femme roadie for the August mini-tour, workshops, and dress rehearsal. I loved getting to spend hours and hours with this smart, fierce, funny, and lovely group.
What have you been up to since October?
I’ve helped with and performed in a couple of TraniWreck shows, but that’s it for performing. I’ve been involved in a variety of nerdy endeavors, though: I finished co-editing a book with two of my favorite librarians, worked on some projects with the Boston Radical Reference Collective, and participated in a couple of terrific reading groups with Artists in Context.
Why do you think the Femme Show is important?
I value how the Femme Show creates a space for its performers to expand notions of what/who “counts” as femme, to have fun and to critique at the same time. I love that members of the cast represent, embody, and complicate femme in really compelling ways. I also appreciate that the show emerges from a specific geographic context, and allows us to represent some aspects of local and regional queerness.
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March 2nd, 2010 maggie
Phyllis and Beatrice want you to know that you can now be a fan of SPPSSM on facebook! Stay up to date for all your etiquette needs!
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February 26th, 2010 maggie
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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February 23rd, 2010 maggie
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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February 17th, 2010 maggie
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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February 2nd, 2010 maggie
In this new feature, I make our performers answer silly and serious questions! Some of them, like Geppetta (formerly known as Adelaide Windsome, but isn’t Geppetta the best name for a puppetteeress?) I haven’t seen since October so we are catching up! Comment below if you have questions for your favorite femme show folks, I’ll add them to the questionnaire as we continue this feature.
What have you been up to since October?
This autumn was a ridiculous catastrophe. With car accidents, canceled shows, and other detrimental events that I don’t have the energy to alliterate with “c”.
Though 2010, has been an incredible year so far. I toured with the Tranny Roadshow in January and am currently in the midst of a 40 day Southeast tour with genderqueer singer/ songwriter Evan Greer. So much warmth and magic.
See our dates here: myspace.com/adelaidewindsome
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January 29th, 2010 maggie
Or Best Performance Artist!
Take a minute to nominate The Femme Show for the Phoenix’s Best of Boston. You can vote once a day! Be sure to click “finished” at the bottom of the page and enter your email address on the second page or you will be disenfranchised like a hanging chad.
With our myriad talents, we think performance art is the best fit – the category is “Graffiti/Street/Performance Artist.”
While you’re there, be sure to vote for our friends and all your favorite local businesses and artists!
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Today we catch up with our multi-talented queer librarian, Alana!
