Becoming Emma, Becoming Imperceptible (2013-2015)
This solo premiered in Boylesque! produced by Viva Valezz! Burlesque Productions and the Short North Stage at the Garden Theater on June 21st, 2013. It was restaged in The Velvet Follies, a show of classic and neo-burlesque produced by Viva Valezz! and the Velvet Hearts! at Wall Street Night Club on September 14, 2013. It has been performed in burlesque shows throughout Columbus throughout Columbus, OH, since its premiere. Notably, it was selected to be presented in the juried Burlypicks Ohio Regional Burlesque Festival, Wall Street Night Club, March 29, 2014. I also performed this piece as a featured performer in the FIERCE! International Queer Burlesque Festival on May 2, 2015, at Cruze Bar in Pittsburgh, PA.
This piece approaches burlesque by way of ballet and Butoh. It is a study of tropes of erotic stage performance, idealized femininity, and where the body passes into places that might be other than human, developing through the figures/vocabularies of a used-up burlesque dancer, an unattainable ballerina, and —at its most naked —something animal/insect.
Music: "Swanlights" by Antony & the Johnsons
This piece approaches burlesque by way of ballet and Butoh. It is a study of tropes of erotic stage performance, idealized femininity, and where the body passes into places that might be other than human, developing through the figures/vocabularies of a used-up burlesque dancer, an unattainable ballerina, and —at its most naked —something animal/insect.
Music: "Swanlights" by Antony & the Johnsons