Lea DeLaria Headlines Dixon Place's 2013 HOT! Festival, Kicking Off Today
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 02, 2013
Dixon Place has announced the 22nd Annual HOT! Festival of Queer Culture, running today, July 2 - August 3, 2013.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
*OPENING NIGHT PARTY*
Tuesday, July 2 - 6PM - 10PM
HOT! Opening Night Party with your co-host Dandy Darkly!
Kick off HOT! Festival in the Dixon Place lounge with cool summer cocktails
by Snow Queen Vodka and Bulldog Gin. The first 75 guests receive super HOT! Swag Bags filled with sexy summer gifts from Gun Oil, Max Pro Condoms, Mount Airy Casino, Eboost, Daddy Hunt, Good Clean Love, and many more sponsors!
Free spontaneous preview performances!
Snow Queen Vodka Cocktail Hour - 6PM - 7PM Free!
Theater/Performance
Wednesday, July 3 at 7:30pm
Fil Vocasek & Xavier Rice
Cabaret performer Mamma Rice and a posthumous Bea Arthur face off in this theatrical throwdown. When the lights come up, these two forces of nature face off, sing songs, shed some clothes and skewer perception of homo history.
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Lounge, Comedy - Horror - Storytelling - Camp
Friday, July 5 at 7:30pm
Dandy Darkly
Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole!
Come inside Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole and experience tawdry storytelling certain to titillate, torment (and tickle) ... if you dare! "...an utterly unique and potentially fatal cocktail of mince and menace that's not to be believed ... even once he's been seen!" - The Villager Newspaper). Guest appearances by Adam Tendler & Jeffrey Marsh.
www.dandydarkly.com/HOTFESTIVAL
Free!
Friday, July 5 at 7:30pm
Dance - TRIPLE BILL
Tangle Movement Arts
Invert!
Female WWII engineers, Greek statuary, the culture of Internet self-portraits, and postmodern icons of female strength come together in this aerial dance theater production, presented by Tangle. 20 mins. ~ http://www.tangle-arts.com
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Circus Arts, Dance, Theater/Performance
Megan Gendell and Laura Feldman
Commas Along the Water
In three short circus pieces, Megan Gendell and Lauren Feldman explore the nature of meetings, connections, and departures
www.megangendell.com - www.laurenfeldman.com
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Li Cata
Intersubjectivity
Borrowing from traditions of circus, dance, and performance art, Intersubjectivity is a scream of queer frustration and connection.~ www.cargocollective.com/licata
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Friday, July 5 at 10:00pm
SPLIT BILL
Fuck Mia
This scathing comedy is Mia Kunter's transformation from exploited cross-dresser to goddess punk anarchist showcases Shamblin's range of five characters in various degrees sanity and gender. - www.jackshamblin.com
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RoBert Maynard
*the beautifuls*
*the beautifuls* is a semi-conscious display of the limitless arrogance and endemic ignorance of being young and fabulous. - rdhm.net
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Theater/Performance
Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm
M. Lamar
SURVEILLANCE PUNISHMENT AND THE BLACK PSYCHE
M. Lamar's new music theater piece explores a plantation fantasy from the point of view of a black man condemned to death for the murder of his male overseer with whom he has fallen in love. ~ www.mlamar.com
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Lounge
Saturday, July 6 at 7:30pm
Communitas
Curated by Frank J. Miles
Featuring: Duncan Roy, Darnell L. Moore, & Pedro Angel Serrano
Communitas, the new literary series at Dixon Place, captures the times we are in and moving towards - continuing the tradition of a Downtown Manhattan art space where so many parts of the worlds of art and culture and New York City converge.
$6
Lounge
Theater/Performance
Monday, July 8 at 7:30pm
B Squared
B Squared is a light evening of silly songs, poignant melodies with friends and queer stories that will make you giggle and smile. Its goes beyond the surface, but honestly not much. Special guest, Patrick Wetzel.
Free
Theater/Performance
Monday, July 8 at 7:30pm
Melissa Li
Interstate
Interstate is a new concert musical following the drama of a queer Asian-American band on their first cross-country tour. www.interstatethemusical.com
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Lounge
Theater/Performance
Tuesday, July 9 at 7:30pm
Croft Vaughn
Penelope Labradoodle Rockefeller
PLP is a feral raconteur, inner beauty consultant, and erstwhile chanteuse wields a fabulous superpower. www.croftvaughn.com
Free
Lounge
Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30
Jason & Jill: CRAFT FOR YOUR LIFE!
Jason & Jill are the lively hosts of their very own, very special, monthly talk show, CRAFT FOR YOUR LIFE, in the Dixon Place Lounge. In addition to imparting crafting joy and wisdom, J & J feature some of the most talented, entertaining and good looking guests from around the tri-state area.
Free
Theater/Performance, Music
Wednesday, July 10 at 7:30pm
Daniel Isengart & Filip Noterdaeme
The Mad Lover In Me Is The Crazy Artist In You
A madcap cabaret-style romp based on the real-life adventures of two eccentric expatriates who find love in New York City and transform their private lives into a public exhibit of mischief and art. Featuring Penny Arcade, with special appearances by Phoebe Legere and Flotilla DeBarge.
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Lounge
Thursday, July 11 at 7:30pm
Ben Rosenbaum
Space Displacement
Space Displacement is a solo performance piece about reconciling the reality of the physical with the possibilities of the mental. Ben sets out to understand what it means to be a body and a mind, too.
Free
Thursday, July 11 at 7:30pm
Linda Simpson
The Drag Explosion
Linda Simpson shows off her photos of NYC's momentous drag scene from the late 1980s to the mid 1990s. As The Drag Explosion traces Linda's personal journey-from a newbie queen into one of the scene's leading ladies-it recalls the amazing story of how NYC's wiggy subculture burst from the underground into the mainstream.
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Theater / Performance
Thursday, July 11 at 10:00pm
Latrell Live Tonight: A Real Boy!
Slip on your pearls, grab a glass of something boozy, and enjoy the rowdiest talk show around! "Latrell Live Tonight!" is hosted by Latrell Lavene Lebron Lucious Lacrosse Latavier Lactaid Jackson - "The Prophet of Truth" - and he's serving up candid talk on everything juicy, absurd, and stooopid in pop culture. ~ www.ilovelatrell.com
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Fridays & Saturdays, July 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, & 27 at 10pm
THE 2013 HOT! FESTIVAL COMMISSION
Lea DeLaria in a world premiere!
The Loudest Show on Earth
Step Inside "A Conservative's Nightmare" with controversial queer comic Lea DeLaria and her sidekick, Maggie Cassella, as they premiere The Loudest Show On Earth. The duo met at Hartford Pride in 1988 and, because they're rageful, opinionated, Italian dyke comics, they've been yelling at each other ever since. Come share their exploration of the queer urban experience and they promise a funny and musical and F-Bomb filled evening. Bring the kids!
$18 students/seniors - $20 advance / $25 door
Lounge
Theatre/Performance
Friday, July 12 at 7:30pm
Gershwin Live at Dixon Place
St Fortune Presents: Improvisational!
Curated by Michael Wiener and Neke Carson
An improvised multimedia romp through the abstract world of St Fortune's mind.
Free
SPLIT BILL
Friday, July 12 at 7:30pm
Megan Hanley
(check hotfestival.org for show info)
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Kym Bernazky
Plasticland: A Better Place
PLASTICLAND: A BETTER PLACE is a one-woman, experimental, movement theater piece, which brings the audience on a journey to the doldrums of the Pacific Ocean where they encounter a giant plastic trash heap - roughly the size of Texas! ~ kymbernazky.com
$12 advance / $15 door / $10 stu-snr
Lounge
Saturday, July 13 at 7:30pm
Andie Glik
The Hole Diaries
The Hole Diaries is a reactionary piece pointed at the failures of the Vagina Monologues ~ an honest compilation of monologues written by, and about, all sorts of queer and feminist bodies, rebelling against movements of feminism and body liberation that are deep seeded in what defines a gendered body.
Free
Saturday, July 13 at 7:30pm
SPLIT BILL
Dance, Theatre/Performance
Alex Rodabaugh
It Haunts Me
It Haunts Me explores the relationship between choreographer and dancer as a dominant/submissive structure, intertwining my own experience of dom/sub queer relationships.
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Sasha Kargaltsev
McJob
People regard being older as being ugly, and everyone wants to be perfect.
Alexander "Sasha" Kargaltsev
Is an artist, writer, film and theatre director. In this last capacity he won many prizes including his movies, The Cell (2010) and The Well (2009), both made when the Moscow-born author held a scholarship at the All-Russian State University of Cinematography.
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Eli Tamondong
May December
May December is a 10-minute solo dance piece that examines a coming of age story of a young man and his intergenerational encounters. Armed with a bedsheet, a pillow, and a flashlight, our protagonist faces his inner and outer demons.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge, Music, Performance
Monday, July 15 at 7:30pm
The Millies
The Traveling Millies Reunion Tour
The Travelling Millies return for a whirlwind reunion tour! The weird aunts of country music return with their firestorm of country-bluegrass topsy-turvey insanity~ https://www.facebook.com/TravellingMillies
Free
Comedy
Monday, July 15 at 7:30pm
Monica Hammond
Monday Night Live
Monday Night Live is a mash up sketch comedy show based on the structure of Saturday Night Live. Your fantasy guest host for the evening, Honey Boo Boo Child, will take you through an hour of original comedy. Be prepared for outrageous digital shorts, live sketch comedy, improvised musical performances, and more. www.MonicaHammond.com
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge, Music
Tuesday, July 16 at 7:30pm
Garrin Benfield
Benfield's shows center on his quirky pop melodies but are stretched by Garrin into improvisational explorations into new territory each night. Familiar songs are often twisted and contorted into gorgeous new mashups that leave audiences breathless. Benfield gained notice in 2000 with his stark tribute to Matthew Shepard in "What You're Hiding." ~ www.garrin.com
Free
Theater/Performance, Literature
Tuesday, July 16 at 7:30pm
GJ Dowding
(Miss)ter Silhouette Man
A poetry and prose driven performance piece laden with music and movement. (Miss)ter Silhouette Man follows a queer boy on a curious journey orbiting around identity and community.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Theater / Movement
Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30pm
Matthew Pieknik
As Long As You Want
As Long As You Want (Pt. I) uses Sappho's fragmentary poetry to explore the tension between subjective integrity and the eruptions of desire, and between the intentionally said and the unintentionally shown.
Free
Dance
Wednesday, July 17 at 7:30pm
SPLIT BILL
Anna K. Whaley
Metaphysically ILL
Nevermind permanent healing from the inside. I'm only doing what feels good.
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Dominic Bradley
Defiance
Defiance explores the role of psychosis in facilitating deep healing. - www.dommebomb.com
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Thursday, July 18 at 7:30pm
D'yan Forest
Sexy 'n' Sassy / Bold 'n' Brassy!
Comedic ukulele playing gal with a twist. Hotter than hot with crowd-wowing tales galore. ~ www.dyanforest.com
Free
Theatre
Thursday, July 18 at 7:30pm
Kestryl Cael Lowery & Emily Millay Haddad
Lez Miz
Valjean, Cosette, and Marius navigate a polyamory battlefield in this queer leather rendition of Victor Hugo's classic.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Theater/Performance, Dance
Thursday, July 18 at 10:00pm
Octavio Campos
The Pig Show
Cabaret performance with song, dance and storytelling and a celebration of Freedom, through the eyes of a Gay Pig stuck in a twisted story of the 50th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Friday, July 19 at 7:30pm
Jessica Halem
Jessica Halem for Mayor - A Queer You Can Get Behind
Jessica Halem unleashes her platform for Mayor, a queer you can get behind.
Free
Friday, July 19 at 7:30pm
Katie Goldstein
Late Capitalism Cabaret
Sally Bowles is a queer artist who organizes a weekly performance event in a neighborhood that's been facing pressure from real estate developers. When queer blogger Cliff Bradshaw moves to town, she and Sally join the coalition of dancers and neighborhood residents organizing to save the Kit Kat Club.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Solo Performance
Saturday, July 20 at 7:30pm
Paul Ricciardi
ANGRY AND OTHER STORIES
A man discovers the joy of being angry, a 16 year old responds to a gay personals ad, and a little boy announces he's becoming a nurse.~ paulricciardi.net
Free
Saturday, July 20 at 7:30pm
Sh!t Theatre
Sh!t Theatre's Job Seekers Anonymous 2013
A unique and humorous exploration of the (un)employment situations in London and New York. Expect song, satire, stories and silliness.~ www.shittheatre.co.uk
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Monday, July 22 at 7:30pm
Colin Zouvi
(check hotfestival.org for info)
Free
Monday, July 22 at 7:30pm
Justine Sayre
The Boy Sonata
Written as a synesthetic exercise, The Boy Sonata, traces the life of a young through 5 specific moments in his childhood. The stories are written in Sonata form, using literary devices to mimic the musical counterpart and eclipse the Boy's growing voice and sense of increasing individuality.
Justin Sayre - best known as the creator and writer of the hit downtown comedy/variety show The Meeting* (2012 Bistro Award, 2011 MAC Nominee) and its annual benefit "Night of A Thousand Judys" - was described by Michael Musto in The Village Voice as "Oscar Wilde meets Whoopi Goldberg." In a recent story for Edge New York, Steve Weinstein said "Comedian, raconteur, performing artist, gay rights activist and sexual outlaw.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30pm
3 Lies About Brooklyn
John Farrell dips into his early childhood memories (Ages 2 through 5, primarily) to recover a consciousness far more developed then is generally remembered or understood. Set a half-a-century ago in the orphanages, and foster homes of Brooklyn and Dublin it presents a fictionalized (maybe) world view shaped by cruel theology (Catholic) and animal necessity.
Free
SPLIT BILL
Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30pm
Megan Kosmoski & Gina Femia
Five-Sided Triangle
This is the tale of five women in different stages of love, connected through their love for one another.
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Jess Goldschmidt
(check hotfestival.org for info)
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Theater/Performance
Wednesday, July 24 at 7:30pm
Denis Grawley
Thy Kingdom Come
A non-verbal cautionary tale, with music, about lying in the bed you've made for yourself.
Free
Music, Theater/Performance
Wednesday, July 24 at 7:30pm
Dane Terry
Songs and stories of predatory behavior and shadowy meetings on the moon...failed biological experiments and drunk fathers and everything Dane Terry knows about sex, and then some.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Theater, Comedy
Wednesday, July 24 at 10:00pm
Adrienne Truscott
Adrienne Truscott's Asking For It: A One-Lady Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!
Dressed only from the waist up and ankles down, Adrienne Truscott wants to see what happens when she 'asks for it'. With commentary from George Carlin, Louis C. K. and Robert De Niro, she takes on stand-up, polka-dots, pussy- puppets, & mini-skirts.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Thursday, July 25 at 7:30pm & Friday, July 26 at 8:30pm
(check hotfestival.org for info)
Free
Thursday, July 25 at 7:30pm
Dance - SPLIT BILL
Lillie De / Emily Skillings
Using text derived from their sex dreams, these artists explore the bizarre intricacies of modern desire through text and movement.
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Rachel Thorne Germond
Two dances on the theme of love and loss in relationships: the solo Gone Gone Gone... Never Forever and Rejoinder, a passionate duet for two women abounding with energy and grace with live sound effects, music by John Zorn and an aria from the opera Norma by Bellini.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Thursday, July 25 at 7:30pm
Rick Viete
Glace Chase is Talented?
Since being told by his agent: "you've got the charisma. Now you just need a talent" Glace Chase has been determined to prove to the world (and himself) that he can actually do something. So what will it be: Singer? Actor? Dancer? Comedian? Erotica? Intellectuality???? He needs your help to decide.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Theater/Performance Art
Friday, July 26 & Saturday, July 27 at 7pm
Sacha Yanow
The Prince
A lonely prince prepares to be special while never leaving the safety of her bedroom.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Friday, July 26 at 8:30pm
Faux Pas le Fae
CHEZ le FAE
Queer inspired Burlesque, smart Drag comedy and world class Modern Dance are brought together in one evening of twists and twirls. From the heart of Faux Pas le Fae comes CHEZ le FAE: a celebration of the queer, the exotic and the divinely sexy! http://www.kineticarchitecture.org
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Saturday, July 27 at 8:30pm
Dandy Darkly
Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole!
Dandy Darkly weaves sinister tale in his signature mincing manner! A peasant girl learns the true meaning of 'fashion victim!' A rural Georgia town hides its most shameful secrets! A zombie plague decimates disco-era dandies! And more! Come inside Dandy Darkly's Gory Hole and experience tawdry storytelling certain to titillate, torment (and tickle) ... if you dare! - Featuring original musical compositions by Adam Tendler and Jeffrey Marsh. - www.dandydarkly.com
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Monday, July 29 at 7:30pm
Heidi Russell
(check hotfestival.org for info)
Free
Monday, July 29 at 7:30pm
Trevor Bachman
Coromandel
A vibrant musical odyssey for children and adults, sung by the bizarre characters of poet Edward Lear.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Tuesday, July 30 at 7:30pm
Ariel Carson
MAMA'S MILK
Come closer. Sit on Mama's lap. And suckle the sweet milk of hilarity straight from the hottest and queerest performers in town. Unfiltered, unbridled, and joyously bizarre, this variety show will leave a taste in your mouth you didn't even know you missed.
http://www.arielcarson.com/news
Free
Tuesday, July 30 at 7:30pm
David Macke
{Your Name Here} presents Fe(lix) Namasté's FIGMENT
A dance-theater piece that explores the worlds of the living, death, and places in-between.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge
Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30pm
Leigh Hendrix
Get Away From Me I Love You
A maybe post post modern performance collage with dancing, pop music, lip sync and feelings that is all filled up with leaving: leaving people, leaving places, leaving selves in search of a future transformation that won't stop getting interrupted by the people of the present.
Free
Wednesday, July 31 at 7:30pm
Justin Valhala
What Leaves the Wind Has Laid
What Leaves the Wind Has Laid tells the story of two men who cross paths in an enchanted bath house, ruled over by a mysterious madam. In this archetypal tale of love and loss, the characters struggle to find their way in the steAmy Halls where every corner is filled with fresh temptation and trauma. www.justinvahala.com
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Lounge, Theater/Performance
Thursday, August 1 at 7:30pm
Hari Nef
I Am Your Girlfriend
A young drag urchin inherits "the Goddess within." Using a pastiche of drag performance, confession, and new media, I Am Your Girlfriend illuminates the soaring ambivalence and bittersweet redemption of discovering, exploring, and presenting queer identity without compromise.
Free
Theatre/Performance
Thursday, August 1 at 7:30pm
Samantha Galarza and Natalyn Tremblay
Bare Bones Unbound
Two lovers literally bound together, unraveling the complexity of their identities, stories, fears, and desires.
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Dance, burlesque, performance art, spoken word
Thursday, August 1 at 10:00pm
Aimee Herman & Essence Revealed
Electrify Gender!
Electrify Gender! celebrates the spectrum of gender and sexualities through burlesque and performance art
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Friday, August 2 and Saturday, August 3 at 8:30pm
FOOTBALLHEAD: Tales of Shame and Humiliation
Chris Tanner returns to Dixon Place with Football Head tales of shame and humiliation.True and humiliating stories of the sexual awaking of a nerdy art Queen.
Free
Saturday, August 3 at 7:00pm
Santiago Venegas & Becky Eklund
(check hotfestival.org for info)
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Theater, Performance, Comedy, Dance, Music
Saturday, August 3 at 8:30pm
Susana Cook
We Are Caligula
Legendary downtown theatre auteur Susana Cook brings back Caligula, the meanest man in history, in this delightfully witty and savagely funny play.~ www.susanacook.com
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
Saturday, August 3 at 10pm
Kristine Haruna Lee
Drunkfish Oceanrant
A fishy fisherman with bourbon in hand, tells an unusual story in Rakugo. What is Rakugo? Quite literally, it means "fallen words": the art of storytelling where one must be seated on a cushion in seiza (that way of Japanese sitting that hurts most Westerners.) He may tell a funny story only using the inflection, tone, and pitch of his voice, and maybe occasionally with the turn of his head.
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Felipe Ossa
M'dori
M'dori is a young hustler making a go of it in a global city. www.felipeossa.com
$12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students/seniors
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