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the exhib has been really appreciated and hundreds of people visited it: it will be extended till 31st jan 2011 at Azione Gay e Lesbica's in Firenze.
Please check out this site: www.azionegayelesbica.itand pay a visit to
@FLOG - FIRENZE via Mercati 24/a
Today starts the Drag King photo exhibition curated by Eyes Wild Drag in Firenze, Italy. In the portraits and photos around the world, you will find many of the most extraordinary drag king artists' faces and performances, from USA to Australia, from Italy to Russia. Large format prints of one Debra's Kate (USA) and Tania A. (Canada) photos of Océan LeRoy will be on view at the "Azione Gay e Lesbica" from December 4th-5th in conjunction with the "OUT OF GENDER" Drag King workshop and at the DRAG MADONNA party at FLOG from Tuesday, December 7th.
Other photographers exhibiting their work: Alison Bennett (Australia), Angela Potenza (Italy), Claudia Papini (Italy), Eva Mueller (Germany/USA), Hélöise LeChat(Belgium/Italy), Rivkah Hetherington (UK/Italy).
Ciao!
The Airport of Venezia welcomes me first with a real drag/herm campaign... and then with the beautiful Linda, my driver to the long series of rehearsals at the Teatro Giovanni Poli... and pink clothes all over the streets. Sounds like a really great start...
The audience at the theater is more than reserved. It seems we are doing a pionner work at the theater, first drag show ever in a mainstreamand quite official place. But Eye Wild Drag is doing the greatest job. High Class performances playing with lights, shadows, sounds and projections, we never were together on stage and we combine perfectly, neatlessly, flowing and flying to finally get the first reactions of an amazed bunch of spectators: yeah, we are marvellous between the genders! And we will show it the next eve at the nice "Pixelle" Bar, where Marlene joined us, and our brilliant CHEF cooks the most trans* tasteful dishes. One of them is "sodomize your taste"... wanna a bite? ;-)
Starving all along the week-end. Who said Italy has a great food? I only want to eat what Martina's cooking. But it seems we never manage anything else than Ciabattas and Pizza in the post exotic places between rehearsals and travelling and performing...
We finished the tour at Trash&Chic in Noale, after being lost on our way, under streams of rain in the night, in the middle of nowhere in the countryside. Actually we don't ever want to finish that tour. We will make the next one soon. In the South ;-)
The story is: I did not want to go to Rome. I did not like the idea of a Contest at all!! Then Ivan (the Terrible, he earns his name..) and Julius were talking to me, convincing me it would be a lot of fun on stage. And it was!! All the performers from Peru, Mexico, through the States, till all the way to Belgium, France and Germany, had a hard job and loads of joy to impress the professional Jury made of film makers, script writers, actors, singers and journalists... They themselves had a hard job to nominate the 3 best performances of the evening achieving the first KINGS Village event.. I was very honoured to win the first Prize, grazie, Roma!
Could this have been a best birthday present? Because the most exceptional event will have been the presence of my father and mother and teacher Diane Torr, on the exact day of my artistic birth 6 years ago. Yeah! I had to celebrate this by offering her an hommage performance :-)
I still have in my nose the smell of the pine trees and in my hear the uninterrupted song of the crickets invading the open air backstage... the beautiful garden of Julius' place... I felt really like home in Roma, thanks to my bothers there who opened their home so lovely to me.
The most moving thing was to feel being understood in a deeper way than usual, too, and the way the italian groups I saw there or even already in Berlin is near to my understanding of performances and "mise en scène", as we say in French. I could relate well to the esthetics and the dramatics, probably the French are nearer to the Italians than both are ready to admit.. ;-) I became a fan of Eyes wild drag.. Julius & Kyrahm... see you soon, dears.
Have a look for a 5-minute report on TV on this exceptionnal event on Donna TV!
Enjoy!!!
Or listen to the interviews of King Alberto from London and myself on deegay radio!