Ticket price includes 1 free drink!
Panel Discussion will precede Sunday's show @ 7:30.
$15 for both Panel and Performance
Boys with booty, bumpin' bass, and lots of lip-stick mark this luscious, politically bent event! Artistic Director MATHEW HEGGEM curates an evening of serious sex & debauchery by experimental cabaret artists.
Performance highlights include: ASHLEY BROCKINGTON & MONSTAH BLACK with stars of the infamous CABARET CATAPLEXY, the notoriously naughty EMMA BATMAN, the band SEA GLASS, boasting its’ futuristic shamanism under the visions of WENDELL COOPER, and a world premiere of Heggem's Gay Wars - a portraiture of dueling American queer archetypes.
GAY WARS, a new cabaret dance work, deconstructs Gay American culture in conflict with the self and society. Each character - from the P***y F****t to the Closeted ‘Publican - represents a dialogue between identity and the culture that perpetuates it. Are these characters claiming victory for self-expression - or playing pawns in a game of oppression? What deeply embedded structures in American culture are shaping the expression of our freedoms?
GAY WARS is accompanied by a series of images, designed by Heggem, that explore the visual deconstruction of pornographic fantasies en vogue.
www.matheggem.com.
Presale tickets are available here:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/97630
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MATHEW HEGGEM, Artistic Director/Curator of Bushed, Brooklyn-based artist: Gay, naughty - sometimes nice - and always a little nasty, Heggem delves into the cross currents of gender politics, pop culture, and truth-seeking to uncover the unusual circumstances of this American life.
Heggem has presented work at Joyce SoHo's Performance Mix Festival, Dance Conversations @ The Flea, Dixon Place, Movement Research’s Open Performance Series, The Gowanus Arts Center, and Sublet Series in New York, and the National's Theater in D.C.
ASHLEY BROCKINGTON, sensual, evocative and twisted, is a producer of small theater and a hostess extraordinaire. She co-curates the Cabaret Cataplexy, a sexy glittery and glamorous cabaret emphasizing politically and socially charged experimental performance and burlesque; is the creator of an annual performance project called Black Girl Ugly, a meditation on Black Girl-ness & self-esteem; and, is a member of the Rivers of Honey performance team and the WOW café Theater collective.
MONSTAH BLACK brings his gender fuckery, falsetto vocals, digitized beats and elevated shoe clad persona to the stage. Black co-presents and co-hosts with his glam partner Ashley Brockington at Cabaret Cataplexy. He has received generous support from Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Topaz Arts Center, Thelma Hill Performing Arts, Mason/Rhynes Productions, DC Commission On the Arts and Humanities, and The Field.
EMMA BATMAN is a dance artist and performer. Today, she is based out of New York City and has worked with Roger C. Jeffrey, Illana Webber Dance, Banana Peel Dance, and Mathew Heggem (a.k.a. Artifice Hunting). Internationally, she has presented work at the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, & the House of Dino in Cortona, Italy.
WENDELL COOPER is modern shaman and creative artist based in Brooklyn. A graduate of the George Washington University (Dance/Religion), he is also a certified practitioner of energy bodywork and Thai Yoga Massage. He has taught, performed, and choreographed in China, Kenya, Russia, and the Netherlands. His interdisciplinary multimedia works include both choreographed and improvised dance, original music, and video installation. He has worked with Nicholas Leichter Dance, the Maida Withers Dance Construction Company, Grisha Coleman, and the Magpie Music Dance Company. Wendell also collaborates with Mathew Heggem (as Kinaeathesia), Monstah Black, and Yozmit. Sea glass is his latest collaborative project. www.complexstability.com
