DRAG MOVEMENT STUDY #1

photo by Julieta Cervantes

photo by Julieta Cervantes

photo by Julieta Cervantes

photo by Julieta Cervantes

photo by Julieta Cervantes

photo by Julieta Cervantes

photo by Julieta Cervantes

Out of the core elements of drag, in this case the trappings of overblown femininity (makeup, lipsynch, wigs, spangles, very high heels) I create a movement study. How does lip-synch (a common drag practice originally meant to move the performer more fluidly between genders) become a dance that transforms the cis-female performer into a drag queen? Can the ritualized act of applying makeup become a dance? Can the limitations imposed by heels and beaded gowns become generative or even liberatory?

  • Performance: Fauxnique
  • Choreography: Monique Jenkinson
  • Live Videography: Michelle Blioux
  • Video Documentation: Movement Research
  • Premiere: Truly, Madly, Deeply, Movement Research Festival, Judson Memorial Church, New York City 2010

Praise:
“Glamorous, kitschy and inventive” – The Dance Anthropologist

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