next two weeks in the life of JZ - or how to be fabulous with me :-)
JZ Bich
1. PILLOW FIGHT
February 28th - I will be fabulous in my sleepwear at the FAB Benefit at the sexiest loft in town!
Date: Saturday February 28, 2009
Time: 9:00PM-2:00AM
Location: 684 Broadway, Penthouse E (at Great Jones Street)
Price: $75 in advance, $100 at door.
Dress: Pajamas slumber attire
For tickets and info go to FAB website
2. SEMINARS IN THE CITY: TEASE N' TELL
Date: March 2
Time: 6-8pm
Location: The LGBT Center, 208 West 13th, Room 410
Price: FREE
Email clags...@gc.cuny.edu for reservations and more information.
Jo Boobs, Darlinda Just Darlinda, and myself will be talking to you about burlesque as a part of Tease N' Tell burlesque seminar series produced by CLAGS.
3. HYPERGENDER BURLESQUE: DIVAS
Date: March 7th
Time: 10pm
Place: WOW Cafe Theatre, 59-61 East 4th, 4th floor
Price: $10
go to www.hypergender.com for info and tickets.
4. FANNIE SPANKINGS' OFF THE CLOCK LATE NIGHT BURLESQUE
Date: March 14th
Time: 11pm
Place: Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 16th Street Mall at Arapahoe, Denver, CO
Price: $15
go to Lannie's for more info.
DETAILS:
1. PJ PARTY
It's true, our PJ-clad benefit party will cost you less than a night out on the town. We will provide drinks, food, performance, and a dance party until 2:00AM in the coolest loft in town. Where else would you find that for only $75?
We also added to our previous line-up of Doug Elkins & Laurie McLeod, performances by Julian Barnett, Wallie Wolfgruber, and the New York Neo-Futurists, pillowfights with the Ultimate Feather Fighters, as well as a multiple board Twister tournament that will let you get your game on.
Come with your posse. Leave covered in feathers.
Date: Saturday February 28, 2009
Time: 9:00PM-2:00AM
Location: 684 Broadway, Penthouse E (at Great Jones Street)
Price: $75 in advance, $100 at door.
Dress: Pajamas slumber attire
Visit www.fabnyc.org for more information and to purchase tickets in advance.
2. SEMINARS
CLAGS Presents: Tease N Tell
Monday 3/2
6-8 PM
Room 410
The LGBT Center
208 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
FREE
For reservations and info:
212 817 1955
From the seedy Blue Angel Cabaret to the CWTV’s Gossip Girl, in the past decade burlesque has infiltrated the mainstream yet manages to remain a transgressive art form. While it flirts with popularity burlesque at its best does not compromise its subversive origins, erotic themes, and defiant ideals. It naturally lends itself to promoting queer philosophy and values without necessarily calling attention to its inherent queerness.
Contemporary burlesque, often known as neo burlesque, borrows from various genres including dance, drag, performance art, theatre, and, of course, traditional burlesque. It is a hybrid art form that mixes traditions, flaunts rules and standardizations in order to remain provocatively entertaining.
The seminars will invite some of the leading neo burlesque performers in New York to perform as well as provide the theoretical and historical context for their work. The seminar participants will have the opportunity to read about, observe, and engage with this unique form of performance art that advances the artistic expression by constantly challenging the political and cultural authorities.
March 2nd Seminar details:
Politics of Burlesque
Jo "Boobs" Weldon is the Headmistress and Founder of the New York School of Burlesque. She is also a Director of Education for the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, and produces the Burlesque Master Class for Coney Island USA. Her awards from the New York Burlesque Festival include Best Bump N Grinder, Best Burlesque Teacher, and Biggest Cougar. She appears in the Leonard Cohen documentary "I'm Your Man." She has been a featured performer in Margaret Cho's Sensuous Woman Variety Show, and is the burlesque choreographer for the hit series Gossip Girl. The handbook for her school will be published by Harper Perennial in 2009. She has been performing burlesque and striptease for three decades.
Jo will be presenting her thoughts and research on burlesque as part of the tradition of American leisure culture, and of leisure and play as quests essential to the survival not only of the spirit but of the body.
Darlinda Just Darlinda has been working as a Burlesque Performer in New York since 2003. She coined the term “Polyester Performance”, an inspiring mixture of Burlesque, Modern Dance, Performance Art, Comedy Sketch, and Drag Queen Ballet. Since October 2005 Darlinda has continued to produce her own brand of burlesque show, most recently “GREEN WITH ENVY BURLESQUE” in February of 2008 as part of her “living art project” called A Year in Rainbow www.yearinrainbow.com. In October of 2007 Darlinda participated in the Feminist Neo-Burlesque Symposium at The Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London. The Village voice calls Darlinda “A Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza”
Darlinda will be presenting her thoughts on feminism and burlesque.
JZ Bich has been performing as herself since 2002. She hails NYC her home but claims her Balkans origins when it suits her. Since 2007, JZ with N has produced HyperGender Burlesque, an uncensored, gender bending post-neo-burlesque at WOW Café Theatre. In the past JZ produced Barbarian Burlesque series as a part of barbaric burlesque she worked on in 2004-2006. Outside of the USA, JZ has performed in Sarajevo, Belgrade and Zagreb and has been involved in many queer activities in the Balkans. The mind behind the Bich fabulosity is Jasmina Sinanovic. Jasmina has an MFA in Dramaturgy from Stony Brook University and an MA in Theatre Studies from the CUNY.
JZ will be presenting her thoughts on the use of identity in creating universality while using the tools of burlesque.
3. HYPERGENDER
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HyperGender Burlesque Presents:
DIVA
WOW Cafe Theater
59-61 E. 4th Street, 4th floor
(btw Bowery & 2nd ave)
New York, NY 10003
F, V to 2nd Avenue, 6 to Astor place
March 7th, 2009
10pm
$10
$8 if you come dressed as a diva
Reservations strongly encouraged, call 917-591-6185 or email
hyper...@gmail.com
For online tickets go to: www.hypergender.com
Come and help us honor the International Woman's Day and centuries of
struggle for the equality of all the genders. Marlena Dietrich,
Madonna, Dolly Parton, Beyonce, Annie Lenox, Liza Minnelli and New
York's own The World Famous *BOB* will grace the stage in this
celebration of gender liberation. We've come a long way baby and we
come in the nude!
Hosts: JZ Bich as Marlena and N as Madonna
Guests: The World Famous *BOB* as herself, Miss LEZ 2008 Sequinette as
Dolly Parton, Akynos as Beyonce, Sir Real as Annie Lenox, Margoh
Channing as Liza and Viktor Devonne from White Elephant Burlesque.