Dixon Place presents Dynasty Handbag, Every Weekend in July 7/2-24

As part of the Dixon Place 19th Annual HOT! Festival, everyone's favoriteschizophrenic nutball Jibz Cameron/Dynasty Handbag returns with sluethful vengeance as "DetectiveBags" in the world premier of VERTititGO.

This is Cameron's first commissioned piece with input fromtheatrical consultant Kate Valk. VERTititGO will run every Friday and Saturday in July, 7:30pm at Dixon Place. In VERTititGO, Detective Bags is on the search for a missing woman, or is it every woman...or could shebe the very woman she is looking for? Inverting film noir tropes and Hitchockian formula, VERTititGOstars Dynasty Handbag as the lady dick without a clue, who meets herself in all the characters sheencounters along the way...a demented femme fatale, a bitter fortune teller, an astronaut/waitress, aprofessional boxer, a disillusioned flower and a wise but stupid bear.

VERTititGO is a tale about the waywe look for things, the things that are worth looking for and how the two things rarely meet. 2010 marks the 19th Annual Dixon Place HOT! Festival, a pioneering festival of queer performance andculture - and the oldest, continually running festival of its kind in the world! The festival hub is the brandnew Dixon Place theater complex at 161A Chrystie Street on the New York City's famed Lower EastSide.

The theater consists of 2 venues: a state-of-the-art 120-seat laboratory theater, and an intimateperformance lounge. Beginning in June and running throughout the month of July and into the first weekof August (June 26 - August 7), you'll find an eclectic array of free and ticketed shows and programs 7 nights a week! JIBZ CAMERON: Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag) is a performance/video artist, musician and actor who lives and worksin New York. Her work has been presented internationally from the dirtiest dives to the cleanest arthouses and theaters. Dynasty Handbag performances have been heralded by the New York Times as "thefunniest and most pitch perfect performance seen in years" and a "crackpot genius" by the Village Voice.

She is the recipient of the 2007 Fresh Tracks Artist in Residency Award at Dance Theater Workshop andthe 2008 recipient of the Franklin Furnace Fund grant for the performing arts. She is currently an adjunctprofessor of Performance Composition at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is proud to be cast in theongoing role of "Agent Steph" in the live lesbian soap opera, "Room For Cream."

Kate Valk: Kate Valk is one of America's most revered theatre-makers, has been astounding audiences worldwide fornearly 30 years with the memorable roles she has created for The Wooster Group, the premierexperimental-theatre ensemble in the United States known for its irreverent, boundary-pushingproductions that challenge seminal texts by manipulating narrative and using high-tech innovations.

ABOUT DIXON PLACE

Dixon Place is a non-profit organization founded in 1986 to provide a space for literary and performingartists to create and develop new works in front of a live audience. While other venues of its kind havesince died off, or now only present established artists, Dixon Place remains at the heart of the New Yorkexperimental performance scene. Taking risks is crucial to the life of Dixon Place, its artists andaudiences.Dixon Place's primary commitments are to bring artists and audiences together through live performancein order to expand the understanding of the creative process and its final product, and to provide asupportive environment for emerging artists to present new work.

Over the last twenty-four years, DixonPlace has successfully maintained its intimate atmosphere and unique environment while increasing itsprogramming to fulfill the need for performance opportunities for the New York community ofperforming and literary artists.

TICKET INFORMATION: For reservations & advanced tickets visit www.dixonplace.org or call 212.219.0736.$10 (advance sale)$15 (at door)