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Event
Fauxnique at the Ace Hotel
Honor Thy Mother presents Fauxnique and her latest one woman show The F Word.
Fauxnique: The F Word
The F Word is FEMINISM! No longer unmentionable, now on everyones lips lets hear it from the painted mouth of a lady drag queen. A frank fabulist whose Fosse-lized focus and forceful frame forge fanciful factual fictions, Fauxniques fashionably fierce form of feminism is filled with fucking fantastic feats of hi-femme frippery. See why she broke through the glass ceiling of the male-dominated world of drag to become a queen among queens.
Fauxnique made herstory as the first cis-woman to win a major drag pageant and has performed in such varied venues as the Stud Bar, City Hall, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and de Young Museum in San Francisco; New Museum, Judson Church and the Stonewall in New York; Afterglow Festival in Provincetown, Allways in New Orleans and Rebar in Seattle; and in London, Reykjavik, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Rome, Catania and Zürich. She created space for kids to dress drag queens at a major museum, performed vocals and starred in the beloved video for the dance track Lipstique by Silencefiction (aka Marc Kate), played the DIRT (originated by Justin Bond) in Taylor Macs Lilys Revenge at Magic Theater and most recently played Eurydike/Ismene in Anne Carsons ANTIGONICK at Ashby Stage.
Fauxnique is the drag queen alter-ego of artist/choreographer/dancer Monique Jenkinson. Lauded for her campy, intellectual juxtaposition of pop culture and high art and rare personable flair for drama Fauxnique plays with artifice and authenticity and lives to question essentialist assumptions about gender, art and culture. Informed both by Jenkinsons classical ballet training and a tradition of radical queer performance and theory, Fauxnique sees drag as a dance form and the performance of femininity as a forceful, vulnerable and subversive act.
Praise for Fauxnique
her revelatory and inspirational show Faux Real deploys Trannyshack-schooled drag, pro athlete caliber dance, and first-person dialogue to mine diamond truths about the relationship between women and gay men. Its on a par with the 1990 film version of Sandra Bernhards Without You Im Nothing.
- Johnny Ray Huston, SF Bay Guardian
artfully grapples with glamour, artifice, ballet Time Out London
amazingly skillful performance Leah Garchik, SF Chronicle
campy, intellectual juxtaposition of pop culture and high art Evan James, San Francisco Magazine
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LocationThree Keys at Ace Hotel NOLA (View)
600 Carondelet St
New Orleans, LA 70130
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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Contact
| Owner: VINSANTOS |
| On BPT Since: Aug 22, 2014 |
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| Gregory Gajus |
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