On Thursday the lovely folks at Emerson College and Emerson’s Alliance for Gay Lesbians and Everyone (aka EAGLE) hosted our first ever college show!
I decided to take pictures of my feet as they went through various stages of footwear and foot care in the show. I forgot to include my street shoes before and afterwards, just imagine knee-high boots at the beginning and end of this sequence.
warming up: 2 pointe shoes
Performance pieces I’m working on this week, some femme show and some not:
In a few weeks Havalah and I will be at the True Colors Conference in Storrs, CT presenting a workshop that combines performances from the Femme Show with an interactive discussion about femme identity today. We’re super excited, because True Colors is the largest LGBTQI youth conference in the country and because it’s where I had the best times as a baby queer. Also we get to go on a mini-road trip and stay with my parents.
It’s March 14 and 15 at UCONN. If you’re going, come say hi!
The Femme Show: Dispatches from the Cutting Edge of Femme
This workshop uses selections from The Femme Show, Boston’s acclaimed revue of smart, sexy, interactive performance about queer femme identity, as a jumping off point to discuss all kinds of femme identity past, present and future. Topics for discussion include femme and feminism, making femme identity inclusive, femme as gender identity, creating safe and welcoming spaces for femmes in the LGBTQ community, and anything else you want to talk about! Femme Show artists will perform excerpts including “Hair Piece: The Queer Years,” a hilarious, wrenching exploration of queer visibility through a lifetime of hair styles; and “Split Personality,” high-femme dance solo performed wearing a pointe shoe on one foot and a Doc Marten boot on the other.
Remember, if you want to bring the Femme Show to your school, group, or event, email info at the femme show dot com.
The Femme Show may be coming to a campus or town near you! Talks are currently in the works for performances in April (Gaypril!) at Emerson College, Boston MA as well as a proposed summer tour with stops in Portland, ME and New York.
Stay tuned for more information on these performances and for our upcoming January Art Show Fundraiser! This event will raise funds so that The Femme Show can go on tour and will showcase some amazing femme artists!
