I wanted to make this video with
Simona Zemaityte to show a variation of the
performance (me being still, because normally I am moving around the audience) and just having one person building the dress.
I like result of this video, I feel Simon is like dressing up a kind of dolls, but at the same time she seems quite powerful, as if he wanted to build it so beautifully to make a moving master piece. It is questioning the relationship between the two performers. I can still not determine what is it so any suggestion is welcome!
Find a whole article about this performance
here
An amazing evolutive garment that follow your creativity, you can build yourself...
...or build each other
LUXURIOUS LEGO
With our collective
LUXURIOUXSNACKS, worked on the development of our show "Ma petite folie" that we presented at the Bethnal Green Working men's club & Camdem Theatre people.
We tried to come with the new concept of "French New Wave drag" (don't try to google it, it doesn't exit yet). Simon loved the Demoiselles de Rochefort Jacques Demy Movie, he even started to learn it in French (whereas even not a single French person of our age know it by heart).
Making theses costume was a blast. I have to respect the colour code of the movie (pink & yellow) and the aesthetic (big hats) but with a drag queen twist, so I bought some glitter fabric from the Saint Pierre market in Paris.
The idea was to dress both as one of the Demoiselle de Rochefort (Simon absolutely wanted to be Catherine Deneuve so I went for the sister)
So he was as a man dressed as a woman and I was a woman dressed as a man dressed as woman (but it didn't really worked because at the end I just looked like a woman with a lot of make up). But drag is about failure anyway...
At the end of the act we are taking off our clothes (not ALL of them) and we reveal our identity, Simon as a man, me as a woman creating a feeling of surprise in the audience, questing the performative representation of gender.
Show at Camdem theatre poeple,
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