CRITICAL MASCARA "A Post-Realness Drag Ball" is a night of DANCING, PERFORMANCE and COMMUNITY COMPETITION at PICA's Time Based Art's Festival Sept 14th 2013 10:30pm
-TWIRL (Chicago) joins us in the ballroom.
DJ's SHAUN J. WRIGHT ( Hercules & Love Affair) AND ALINKA ( Shuteye) bring the magic with their new collaboration, Chicago's premiere house music hot bed Twirl to Portland!!
*https://www.facebook.com/TwirlChicago
*https://soundcloud.com/twirlchicago
-THE MIRACLES CLUB (PDX)
The Miracles...
CRITICAL MASCARA "A Post-Realness Drag Ball" is a night of DANCING, PERFORMANCE and COMMUNITY COMPETITION at PICA's Time Based Art's Festival Sept 14th 2013 10:30pm
-TWIRL (Chicago) joins us in the ballroom.
DJ's SHAUN J. WRIGHT ( Hercules & Love Affair) AND ALINKA ( Shuteye) bring the magic with their new collaboration, Chicago's premiere house music hot bed Twirl to Portland!!
*https://www.facebook.com/TwirlChicago
*https://soundcloud.com/twirlchicago
-THE MIRACLES CLUB (PDX)
The Miracles Club is a performance art and house music group from Portland, Oregon. Members RAFAEL FAURIA, HONEY OWENS and RYAN BOYLE have been exploring the relationship between sound, movement, audience and artist.
*http://www.bondmusicgroup.com/roster/miracles-club
*https://soundcloud.com/themiraclesclub
PERFORMANCES BY KAJ-ANNE PEPPER, ISAIAH TILMAN, VIVVYANNE FOREVERMORE (SF) GULA DELGATO, AND MORE!
WANT TO COMPETE TO WIN A CASH PRIZE and INSTANT STARDOM? READ BELOW!
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WANT TO COMPETE?
Kaj-anne Pepper and Chanticleer Tru INVITE YOU TO COMPETE IN!
Criticical Mascara “A Post-Realness Drag Ball”
SEPT 14th 2013
PICA’s T:BA Festival at the Conway Building 2170 NW Raleigh
10pm sign in (pre-registration info below)
8$ Pica Members
10$ General
5$ for pre-registered competitors (everyone pre-registered and confirmed by Sept 7th will get a special gift from Pepper and Chanticleer)
CRITICAL MASCARA is part drag ball and competition, dance party and performance SPECTACLE!
Want to flaunt your highest glamour? Turn tragic into magic? Celebrate the evolution of queer consciousness? Are you hungry to prance, vogue, dance and shimmer? Wanna chance at a cash prize? Win spectacular gifts made by local artists? Want to step into the spotlight at an international arts festival and SHINE?
STAR PERFORMERS! CELEBRITY JUDGES! HI-CONCEPT LOOKS! A 666$ DOLLAR CASH PRIZE! TROPHIES! FAME!
Be you boy, girl, queen, princess, nancy, goblin, unicorn, femme, butch, dandy, fae or the hottest slice of tail since the fall of the Roman Empire YOU ARE INVITED!
In the time honored tradition of Paris Is Burning, New Orleans Drag Balls and Portland Queer Punk Monster Drag we are having a BALL! We are celebrating our lineage, history, beauty, struggles and future with a fantastic night of DANCING, PERFORMANCE and COMPETITION.
YOU ARE INVITED to COMPETE! You are invited to ATTEND! YOU ARE INVITED!
Here’s how it works:
Read the categories!
Know the categories!
Love the categories!
Grab your friends, make a house, set some dates and turn a look! You look better, feel better and will truly have a ball if you get 2-5 or of your friends to get dressed up and support each other with ideas, skillshare, and preparation.
Members of any house can compete as individuals in ONE CATEGORY.
We are competing as individuals but CELEBRATING AS A GROUP!
In each category you are expected to serve a look, a moment, and be prepared to be interviewed and surprised! The the winners of each category will compete in a high stakes performance/lipsynch/dance/challenge for a chance to win a 666$ cash prize and being known as the fiercest in the land. Oh! Also, you need to follow the DIVA REQUIREMENTS for extra credit.
NO LIQUIDS. NO BROKEN GLASS. NO FIRE.
- We’re keeping it safe to dance, sweat and prance.
CATEGORIES ARE:
DIVA PRACTICE: (Art Queen First Time at the Ball)
- Serving Art Damaged, Hi-Contrast, Post-Nerd. Deconstructing Gender? HOW DOES SHE DO IT? Subverting the gender-binary after a heady threesome with Judith Butler, and Marina Abramovic while on the set of LIQUID SKY (watch it, love it, know it).
Diva Requirements - Work some genderfuk but keep us guessing. Colors are TWEED, PLAID, PATTERNS. TEXT. CONTRAST.
GLAMOUR GORE: (For the bloody, dark and fertile hearts)
- Dark Romance, Horror, Witches, METAL! Calling down Baphomet and calling up the spirits of the earth. How are you gonna express a reaction to 10,000 years of cultural oppression of women, queers, and people of color? Turn tragic into magic.
Diva Requirments- Colors are Crimson. Lashes, Silver, Studs, Leather.
VOGUE (Dance Dahling DANCE!)
- For the dancer, the prancer, the gymnast and the twirler. She’s a dancing queen, he’s dedicated to BODY! Simply put we wanna see you LIVE the beat!
Diva Requirments- Colors are BODY. BODY. BODY. We wanna see you MOVE.
HAAAAIIIRRRR (The closer to god)
- I’m talking HEAD TO TOE. Not just a cute up-do. I’m talking HAAAIIIRR long beautiful hair! Freaky Fashion HAIIIIR. Whip yo hair, LIVE FOR HAIR. We wanna choke on your weave for daaaaaaays.
Diva Requirments- Sparkles, Shimmer, HAIR.
FINAL ROUND
PERFORMANCE: (A Hardcore Lipsynch/Dance/HIGHEST CONCEPT Marathon)
- We will be crafting an endurance test for you to show us what you got. BRING IT! You won’tt know all the songs but SOME songs will be posted at Kpepper.net/criticalmascara a week before the show.
Diva Requirements- Be the best you can be. And be prepared to improvise.
FOR MORE INFO: KPEPPER.NET
TO ENTER: email KAJANNEPEPPER@GMAIL.COM with your name, house (if any) and categories (up to 2) you are competing in BY SEPT 7th!
Want to get Critical? Stay glued to Kpepper.net for more info about our Post-Realness Reading Group and Vogue/Queer Performance Dance Classes starting in August!
http://pica.org/event/kaj-anne-pepper-chanticleer-tru/
http://Kpepper.net