Heather Lang Show v režiji in izvedbi Eleanor Bauer in Vice Versa

Heather Lang Show v
režiji in izvedbi Eleanor Bauer in Vice Versa je dvojni »one-woman« show: dvoje žensk, dvojni show. V
edinstvenem družabnem kontekstu drag showa/duhovnega pogovornega showa/TV
prodaje si dve škandalozni in zabavni performerki prilastita in prikrojita
jezik in performativno etiko »realnosti« newyorške »voguing« plesne scene iz
osemdesetih let preteklega stoletja. Z združevanjem različnih performativnih
žanrov, mešanjem prototipov in arhetipov različnih likov, izzivanjem »ekonomije
stvari« z neizmerno vrednostjo izkušenj, ti nenavadni pajdašici v zločinu
ustvarita doma narejeno in grozljivo mešanico kritik na račun kulturne
identitete, kapitalizma, ustvarjalnega izraza in zabave, ki drži razbito
ogledalo resničnemu svetu (in resničnosti sveta) v vsej njegovi sprevrženi
veličini. Za Eleanor Bauer in Heather Lang »drag« ni zgolj sredstvo za
manipulacijo ali izpostavljanje spola, ampak tudi odskočna deska za popolno
emancipacijo performerja skozi osebnosti, tako kulturne in zgodovinske kot tudi
domišljijske … in presenečenj nikoli ne manjka.

Koncept, tekst,
performerki: Eleanor Bauer, Heather Lang; Kostumi: Heather Lang; Sodelovanje
pri scenografiji: Ray Lang; Glasba,
video asistenca: Matt Atkinson.

Performans bo potekal v angleškem jeziku.

Organizacija: Mesto žensk; V sodelovanju: Lutkovno
gledališče Ljubljana.
S podporo: EU Kultura, Veleposlaništvo ZDA v Ljubljani.

Cena: 7€, 5€ (dijaki, študentje in upokojenci ob
predložitvi dokazila ter samozaposleni v kulturi), vstop prost za brezposelne.

Umetnice in sodelujoče

ELEANOR BAUER

Heather Lang

Video

The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa

ELEANOR BAUER HEATHER LANG

Performance

2011 / 70'

The Heather Lang Show by Eleanor Bauer and Vice Versa is a double one-woman show: double the woman, double the show. In the uniquely gregarious context of a drag show cum spiritual talk show cum QVC infomercial, two outrageous and entertaining performers appropriate and reinvent the language and performance ethics of "realness" that originated in the 1980's New York voguing scene. Combining genres of performance, remixing character prototypes and archetypes, challenging the economy of stuff with the immeasurable value of experience, these unlikely partners in crime fashion a homemade and uncanny amalgam of critiques on cultural identity, capitalism, creative expression and entertainment that holds a broken compact mirror up to the real(ness) world in all its twisted glory. Eleanor Bauer and Heather Lang refer to drag not only as a manipulation or augmentation of gender, but as a springboard for the total emancipation of the performer through personalities both cultural/historical and fictional... and never without a twist.

The performance will be in English.

Conceived, written and performed by: Eleanor Bauer, Heather Lang Costumes: Heather Lang Scenographic contribution: Ray Lang Music & video assistance: Matt Atkinson

Organisation: City of Women; In collaboration with: Puppet Theatre Ljubljana.
Supported by: EU Culture, U.S. Embassy Ljubljana.