Siegessäule Cover Dec09
Thank you Frank for the nice moment with you!
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risk stretch or die
It all started last year, taking off some time in fall, somewhere between Vancouver and Sao Paulo, flying further to Amsterdam, Bilbao, Jakarta, New York.. and to Paris to complete the Tour at Le Divan du Monde, what a name - could there have been a better place to find some release after such a trip?
The film "Risk, Strech or Die" has been screened everywhere, and I was to be beamed with the multimedia show all around the places to accompany it !! discovering new audiences, new questions, new aspects of trangender life, new challenges which brought me nearer to myself... and further away from the film, which had been quite a trigger, a springboard, a chance to face own limits and new horizons.
Yeah, indeed!!! The Queen of Pop is touring parallely on the East Coast.. On October 11th I'm also in a Square Garden... performing in Le Petit Versailles, a beautiful little garden of East Village, managed by the lovely Peter and Jack. And it is sold out too ;-)
It felt like a poetic end summer night dream..
The Boston Theater is quite full on Tuesday night - the press has been largely covering the event and the audience is extremely receptive, in excellent mood, warmly welcoming.... First time ever starting with a full show before a screening. And the Q&As were certainly quite challenging without the filmmaker by my side this time!
But the best moments of New York and Boston were above all, to spend time with dear friends, or recognize in the audience a Berliner friend just before going on stage, or being embraced from another one who just moved to Boston and came after: he had received the mail of... my first stage partner!!!
The world is so small. especially when you notice your New Yorker freinds are friend with the friend of the friend who attended the show by surprise...
Lost in relations ;-)
What a welcome. It remembered me of Zurich Airport, warmly welcoming the French - for whatever reason -.. it is the first time in the tour the first words I read are: DEATH PENALTY. I have to think about the questionnaire I had to complete before entering the Indonesian territory: are you carrying film material? are you importing pornographic items to the country? Well. Is a stuffer pornographic? A dildo? A harnass? Is a multimedia show burnt on DVD a film? Shall I cross yes or no? I let you guess :-) at any case: I managed to get in easier than in Israel!!
Jakarta is a HUGE traffic jam in a pre-national-day fever... I thought I knew what it means to drive like mad after my experience in Sri Lanka, but there is obviously always a possibility for improvement on this earth.. :-) It is stricly speaking possible to go by foot, but practically impossible. At any case: any transportation from A to B necessitates half an hour at least, wherever you go, better: one hour. For sure if I write a song on Jakarta, it will be about the traffic...
Actually, no! it will be about the LADIES'FLOOR of the fully booked hotel. I tried to explain to the receptionnist that it might be quite a hassle to have a room on a floor where no man is allowed, with a female security guard taking care of any unwelcomed visitor with a beard and an obviously masculine outfit - there is no other possibility for me than to ask for a specific escort to go to my room on the 15th floor. Every night!!! The Ladies' Floor :-) Do I look like a Lady? The security Guard decides than NO, pretty much like everybody here adressing me as a man, if I wear a beard or none - this is not a relevant indicator any more here. Or not a sufficient one ;-)
But still, quite a lot of participants have been enrolling for the king's workshop. Concentrated faces. Humourous questions. Excellent mood. Serious work. Guys, you really made my eve on that day!
Before leaving for Bali and more fun, more screenings, more parties, a huge party has been organized to close the Java part of the Q! Festival... I was too glad to make the first Drag King Show on the Island that evening, in the most beautiful location on the Beach, the Segara... before we all drunk too much of that interesting cocktail and went crazy on the dance floor under the fireworks, the moon... and the fog.
Hey! The blog of the film documentary about my crazy life "Risk, Stretch or Die" (Saskia Heyden, 60mn, 2007) is now online... check it out!
