The Femme Show Announces Northeast Tour 8/14-21

In the Streets Productions is proud to present The Femme Show on tour August 14-21, 2010. Johnny Blazes, Maggie Cee, Geppetta, M. Hanora, Rachel Kahn and Mylène St Pierre explore gender, queerness and sexuality with all the sass, seriousness, and sophistication audiences have come to expect. This new Femme Show uses burlesque, drag, spoken word, puppets, props, music, and more to give audiences new ways and new reasons to think about gender, femininity, and desire.

With dance, spoken word, burlesque, drag, and performance art from award-winning artists, The Femme Show is the country's only touring show exploring all aspects of femme identity. This is queer art for queer people, with a variety of diverse perspectives on queer femininity that can be thoughtful, sad, funny, sexy, and fun. In October of 2007, the first-ever Femme Show sold out and received rave reviews from audience members who called it "wild, raw, transparent, and unique," and "a fantastic, funny, powerful show."

Since then, The Femme Show has been seen at True Colors, the country's largest LGBTQI youth conference (Storrs, CT); Emerson College (Boston), Machine (Boston), Queer Spirit Camp (Greenwich, NY), headlining at Common Threads Youth Empowerment Retreat (Stony Point, NY), New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Portland, ME. Cast members have recently been seen with the Body Heat tour, FringeNYC, ImprovBoston, Company One, and the Tranny Roadshow, among others.

Featured pieces include:
"CHECK ONE PLEASE" is a humorous look at the conundrum of having to choose a label for one's gender. Physical theater and gendered props overflow in this exploration of the question: what must one give up when choosing a label? ?
"Hot Commodity": In this sassy burlesque, a femme just wants to have fun, but her sexuality is being co-opted everywhere she turns.?
Mylène St Pierre's monologue explores fat kinky femme sexuality.?
In "Carrying" M. Hanora portrays a character struggling through a day filled with obstacles that include hir feminine presentation.?
Johnny Blazes' monologue "Transcension" explores notions of "passing" in the transgender and queer communities, using voice, music and movement to express the discord of being a female-bodied transgendered person who expresses hirself femininely.?
The etiquette mavens of the Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Sapphic Social Mores invite the audience to join them on a world tour in which they confront common queer and femme dilemmas. ?
"Freaks and Fortunes" by Geppetta is an internal dialogue about the fears and rationale of passing from the perspective of a trans woman, told through beautiful puppets.

Tour Dates Include:
Saturday, August 14 Worcester, MA 3 PM $7?Guest Artist: Corrina Bain?Lucky Dog Music Hall, 89 Green Street, Worcester, MA
Saturday, August 14, Albany, NY 9:30 PM $10 ?Steamer 10 Theatre, 500 Western Ave, Albany, NY??Sunday, August 15, NY, NY 7 PM $5-10 suggested donation?Smut, storytelling and poetry?Guests artists: Kit Yan, Corrina Bain and Lea Robinson?Bluestockings, 172 Allen St. New York, NY 10002??Tuesday, August 17, Pittsburgh PA 6:30 PM $5-10 sliding scale?Guests artists: Bekezela Mguni, Nichole Faina, inFERNo, and Brawlwitdabra?Shadow Lounge, 5972 Baum Blvd
Wednesday, August 18, Philadelphia, PA 9 PM $10?Lesbian Dorkestra opens!?Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave
Thu. Aug. 19, Philadelphia, PA 7:30 PM, $5-10 sliding scale?Smut, storytelling and poetry at Giovanni's Room?Guest: Meil Rose?345 South 12th Street, Philadelphia PA
Friday, August 20, Washington, DC 8 PM $10?Guest: Natalie Illum?The DC Center, 1318 U Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009
Saturday, August 21, Baltimore, MD 8 PM $8?Guests: Femme6 Burlesqueer and Roma Mafia?The Wind Up Space, 10-12 W. North Ave.

About the Artists

Johnny Blazes is known throughout Boston's drag and burlesque scenes for hir genre-bending, gender-blending, tongue-in-cheek performances. Ze received a BA in Dance Performance at Oberlin College where ze founded OCircus! and directed the 95-student group for three years. Ze has directed grassroots circus groups across the country including a smaller touring version of OCircus!, The Madcap Rumpus Society and The ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment. Johnny is a regular performer at TraniWreck, the Midway, Jacques Cabaret and colleges across New England. Ze is currently booking a tour of hir one-person evening-length performance entitled wo(n)man show. www.johnnyblazes.com

Maggie Cee (artistic director) is an artist, activist, and teacher committed to community, social change, and sequins. She performs regularly around Boston and has also been seen at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, at the Femme2008 Conference, in Boston's Traniwreck, and at the Stonewall Inn. Her essay, "notes to a young not-yet femme" was recently published in the anthology Second Person Queer.

M. Hanora is a community organizer, abortion care provider, artist, and writer. She was recently published in the anthology Queer and Catholic. Mallory has performed in Boston at the Works in Progress series, Boston University, Emerson College, the Boston Common, Jacques Cabaret, at parties and special events, and with the Reflect and Strengthen Street Theatre troupe. She graduated from the Emerson College Honors Program with a degree in Writing and experience in the performing arts.

Rachel Kahn is a freelance writer, poet, and performer, but spends the vast majority of her time pretending to be a therapist. Her work has been heard at a variety of venues, including the Apocalypse Lounge, the Ear Inn Poetry Series, and The New York Writers' Coalition ‘Writing Aloud' series. She has performed at the HOT Festival at Dixon Place in New York City, and makes trouble on and off stage up and down the East Coast. Rachel is not ashamed to tell you that she wrote a young adult novel, but will never let you know what name she used.

Mylène St Pierre is a kinky Quebecois Femme who has been writing erotica and smut for 15 years. She is also a queer activist, a community health worker and a sexologist. Mylène hails from Montréal, Canada, place of all things pleasurable and risqué, and is quite happy sharing her provocative and filthy work . Her writing and performing has focused mostly on smut but she has also performed locally with Big Moves, a size diversity dance troupe. She feels very honored to be part of the Femme Show among such an amazing cast of performers.

Adelaide Windsome, who performs under the name Geppetta, is a queer fabulist, street performer, multimedia artist, and art educator currently based in Philadelphia. Growing up fairly nomadic with a fear of dolls and an overactive imagination, she naturally gravitated towards the lifestyle of a traveling puppeteer. She has been a featured artist with Fresh Meat Productions, Red Sun Press, Puppet Uprising, and the Philadelphia Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls, among others. http://geppeta..weebly.com

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