WARNING, the following article contain strong colours!
I had the honour to be invited to take part into the opening night of "La Cage royal" at l'Escargot in Soho.
" Throughout 2017, La Cage Royale will provide a regular home for the most exciting visual art makers, performance artists, musicians, activists, forward thinkers, sartorial eccentrics, their friends and supporters. A platform for new work, experimental theatre, intimate performances, cutting edge cabaret, recorded and live music… culminating to some fabulous dancing and celebrating!
Focused on the philosophy of spontaneous creative expression, freedom, generosity and reviving the bohemian spirit of London through the mediums of poetry, music, singing, spirituality, open sharing platform, magic, dancing, performance art, costumes and much more, it will bring under one roof the warmest and brightest leading lights of the city.
Intimate performances unraveled throughout the upstairs salons, including butoh dance, burlesque shows, avant garde performances, palm and card readings, cabaret, strip tease, a poetry salon a snake charmer, magicians, amazing drag queens, extraordinary costumes and live music galore!
The rule was "Dress to express and impress! This is your chance to take that unwearable garment out for a spin and join the dazzling sights!"
I especially crafted this performance for the occasion, inspired by the surrealistic aesthetic of the building and the concept of "cage" that I translated into a tent dress and I came out with this "Psychedelic tea time" Alice in Wonderland mad hatter inspired.
I made the circus tent dress for a colour walk last year (see picture), but I decided to develop the potential interactive element of the costume as you can go inside of the children tent.
I had a miniature porcelain tea set where I was pouring bourbon in instead of tea. I was inviting the audience gathered in the green salon to pick a card and then find the matching pair which was hung inside the dress. When they pulled the curtain, they could discover a magical world with fairy LED light and alice in wonderland music coming from my phone hidden in my pans!
When they found the matching pair, they had to drink the magical beverage in the tea cup as a shot to celebrate.
In this performance I am exploring the concept of endangerment on two different level. first because I am getting vulnerable by letting audience go under my skirt, and interact, what about if a member of the audience goes to far? should I interrupt the show or you have to keep performing?
And also with the drinking and the risk of getting drunk and loosing control as I was taking a shoot of Bourbon every time a person was finding the matching pair.
I got interesting reactions of the audience, Especially male, going under a woman skirt could be a fantasy but when it is clearly asked it become frightening and intimidating.
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| getting ready helped by Florent Bidois -picture by Zac Zenza |
A Colour Walk is an informal gathering of golden creative souls getting dressed or dressing up to inspire and be inspired.
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picture by Richard Kaby
Even if Sue Kreitzman goes to the market every thursday as a ritualistic pilgrimage organising a colour walk make it a bit special!
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Colour people seems to appear from nowhere and gather around Las Iguanas. Staff usually thing is it a kind of flash mob and clients get a bit overwhelmed with the amount of colours splashing everywhere!
Still inspired by circus theme, this is my outfit for Last colour walk, an alternative ringmaster outfit. A old vintage velvet dress hollywood style I cut in half to make it a cancan dancer long top I could take into an glittery stars short. So the outfit is between a dress and a two pieces suit playing between masculinity and femininity.
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| great portrait by Sue Harding, I like the fact you can recognise me more by what I am wearing than what I actually look like! |
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picture by Neil Andrew
I made the Circus clown neckpiece with the soft clowns from the circus tent dress (I always recycle everything) that I stitched on a glittery base. |
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picture by Neil Andrew
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Peruvians dolls charms neckpiece 💜💙💚❤️ made for @suekreitzman with Aztec style beaded & embroidered dolls headpiece ✨
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The neckpiece is an intricate piece of embroideries with traditional guatemalan worry dolls, a local legend about the origin of the Muñeca quitapena refers to a Mayan princess named Ixmucane. The princess received a special gift from the sun god which would allow her to solve any problem a human could worry about.
In traditional and modern times, worry dolls are given or lent to brooding and sorrowful children. They would tell their doll about their sorrows, fears and worries, then hide it under their pillow during the night. After this, the child will literally sleep over the whole thing. At the next morning, all sorrows are said to have been taken away by the worry doll
By Daria Marchik
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another day at the market with Sue Kreitzman, wearing my favourite Dazzle&Jolt pop corn skirt!
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wearing my favourite 💕 L.O.M fashion playsuit with pompons with a bespoke skirt Rajasthan inspired that I frenetically embroidered during months and my little pony headpiece ✨
picture by @anthony Lycett |
Getting an invitation to
Sue Kreitzman house is always a delight. Less is less and more is just not quite enough
✨don't wear beige it may kill you
✨ As Sue is always acquiring new art pieces her personal museum is evolving in a perpetual vital spark.
I know it would be a nightmare and really oppressing for some people to leave in such a crowded and rococo space but for me, I just feel I fit in!
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