Darlinda in London and Stockholm October 24-November 4!

Hi Folks,
I’m going away tomorrow! Yes that’s right! I’ll be in London for a week to participate in the one-day critical exploration and performance-presentation Feminist Neo-Burlesque on October 26(info below) . On the 25th I’m going to join the folks at Vauxhallville!

I will continue my daily blog at www.yearinrainbow.com so come check out what I’m up to!

On the 31st I’m off to Stockholm to perform with on November 3 with Miss Astrid and the girls at the Hootchy Kootchy Club for their Hootchy Kootchy Horror Picture Show!

I’ll be back in time for a Starshine Spectacular week on November 6 at Lotus and November 8 at Starshine Burlesque!

Me as an American by Stacey Joy

Feminist Neo-Burlesque October 26, 2007

The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and
The International Workshop Festival
are pleased to announce that:

BOOKING IS NOW OPEN FOR

This one-day critical exploration and
performance-presentation:

Feminist Neo-Burlesque

at the Central School of Speech and Drama,
University of London

Friday 26th October 2007,
4pm – 10:30pm

£30 full price / £15 concessions

Please contact cett@cssd.ac.uk by 5pm on 19th October to book your place.
Payment for the event must be received in full before tickets are issued.

Speakers: … Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths … Lara Clifton, Artistic Producer of The Whoopee Club … Sherril Dodds, University of Surrey … Darlinda Just Darlinda, New York … Liselle Terret, Central School of Speech and Drama … Diane Torr, Glasgow School of Art … Marisa Carnesky … Michele Aaron, University of Birmingham

Performers: … Empress Stah … Ryan Styles … Russella … Pia Arber … Red Sarah … Miss Fancy Chance … Doris La Trine … Miss Polly Cup Cakes … Eva Weaver … Lexi Van Gosh … Darlinda Just Darlinda … Daniel Somerville

- The event will begin with a roundtable discussion from 4pm
- A buffet supper and drinks will be served from 6:30pm
- Performances will begin at 7:30pm

The event will bring together theatre makers, theatre thinkers and theatre students to ask:

Is the resurgence of burlesque a continuation of the exploitation of women’s bodies or is it potentially part of a new feminism?

Is this performance genre, originally used as a performative platform for women to comment on social and political issues, being reclaimed in the contemporary moment?

Can neo-burlesque be mobilised as a critical space of queer performativity, exploring male and trans burlesque?

This event is part of …
Theatre Materials / Material Theatres: CETT 2007/08
The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre (CETT) is based at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. It works to provide a national resource for vocational performing arts training and learning, a focus for theatre research and scholarship, and a site for collaboration, nationally and internationally, between industry, Higher Education, and specialist training providers.