For Immediate Release: Dance/Theater
Contact: Mica Sigourney
415.828.4369, houseofhorseface@gmail.com
CounterPULSE and OX/VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! Present as part of the Summer Special program:
WORK MORE!
1 theater, 5 drag queens, 10 artists, 4 simultaneous drag shows
OX
August 24th- August 26th
San Francisco, July 2012— Showcasing some of our city’s most talented and diverse performers, WORK MORE! rides the line between theater performance and nightlife experience. Performance artists, fine artists, lighting designers and dancers partner with local drag queens to create four intimate and over the top performance installations. Using lip-synch, dance, high drag, naked bodies, theory and good old fashion camp, the audience will be guided through the space, a virtual haunted house of glamour, for a distinctly San Francisco experience.
Drag has long been a mode of preserving queer histories, from chosen families to on stage story telling. Sharing these techniques and histories with other artists expands these traditions beyond club culture to a wider audience. Working across art disciplines and with diverse bodies, the performers will collaborate to write their own new language of queer history.
Featuring: Glamamore and Jerry Lee, Dean Disaster and Philip Huang, Martha T. Lipton and Margaret Menudo, DIAmanda Kallas and Jonathan Solo, Kolmel WithLove and Tessa Wills.
Calendar Editors:
What: WORK MORE!
1 theater, 5 drag queens, 10 artists, 4 simultaneous drag shows
When: Thursday August 24th, Friday August 25th, Saturday August 26th
Where: CounterPULSE 1310 Mission Street @ 9th, San Francisco
Tickets: Regular $20 Students $15
Counterpulse.org or 1-800-838-3006
Web: www.counterpulse.org
www.mica sigourney.com
About the Artists:
Mica Sigourney/VivvyAnne ForeverMORE- As student of theater and performance for 14 years, Sigourney has specialized in physical theater, improvisation and site specific performance. 6 years ago he fled the proscenium stage and traditional venues and refocused his energies on go-go performance installations and the populace stages of the nightlife. 2 years ago he created drag persona VivvyAnne ForeverMORE! and since has performed on stages and festivals in San Francisco, L.A., New York, and London, and in the de Young, the New Museum (NYC) and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Sigourney is an Artist In Residence during CounterPULSE’s Winter 2011-2012 season with his show “Masterwork: the most important performance made by one of the most important artists and generation of our time Mica Sigourney”
OX- founded in 2008 by Mica Sigourney, explores the tension between formal representative construction and personal actualization through non-traditional physical theater, improvisation and site specific performance. OX self-produces large-cast live theater events, participates in large group shows and co-curates evening-length performances using traditional queer modalities of theatrics such as drag, nightlife entertainment and go-go performance as a point of departure.
About CounterPULSE:
CounterPULSE provides space and resources for emerging artists and cultural innovators, serving as an incubator for the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture. CounterPULSE acts as a catalyst for art and action; creating a forum for the open exchange of art and ideas, catalyzing transformation in our communities and our society. We work towards a world that celebrates diversity of race, class, cultural heritage, artistic expression, ability, gender identity & sexual orientation. We strive to create an environment that is physically and economically accessible to everyone.
About Summer Special:
CounterPULSE is pleased to announce Summer Special, an experiment in offering radically affordable and accessible performance opportunities to a diverse array of emerging performance-makers. Eleven lead artists present nine weeks of contemporary dance, experimental theater, multimedia performance, provocative drag and more. Ranging from raw experiments to polished premieres, this summer is FULL of new performance at CounterPULSE. Featuring: KDUB Dance/Kevin Williamson, Front Line Theater, Maryam Rostami, Samantha Giron Dance, Mica Sigourney, Raya Light, Erika Tsimbrovsky, Collage Theater, and a shared evening between Finley Coyl and Mary Franck with Tessa Wills.