PHANTASMAGORIA ONE WEEK AWAY! PLUS DONNA SUMMERS!
PHANTASMAGORIA:
A Land Where all the Beauties are Monsters and all the Monsters are Beauties
PHANTASMAGORIA: A Land Where all the Beauties are Monsters and all the Monsters are Beauties
Thursday, August 27, 2009
9 pm, $10
Burlesque by the Beach @ Coney Island Sideshow by the Seashore
1208 Surf Avenue
Brooklyn , NY 11224
www.coneyisland.com/burlesque.shtml
Starring:
Bambi the Mermaid
Darlinda Just Darlinda
Devilicia
Dr. Lucky
Little Brooklyn
PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS
"Ideal beauty attracts, whereas monster/beauty likely attracts and repulses simultaneously."
-- Joanna Frueh
Once upon a time an unsuspecting academic researching a vital 21st century cultural phenomenon gets swept away by her studies and literally lands in a fantasy land called Phantasmagoria. In Phantasmagoria, all of the beauties are monsters and all of the monsters are beauties. Though monster/beauty produces conceptual richness, it also creates curatorial nightmares as Dr. Lucky and Darlinda Just Darlinda attempt, in vain, to structure the show. Along the way, they meet some of the most compelling beautiful monsters and monstrous beauties in the new burlesque scene including Bambi the Mermaid, Darlinda Just Darlinda, Devilicia, Dr. Lucky and Little Brooklyn. These monster/beauties teach our unsuspecting academic a few things about theory as they bring to life her essay entitled, "'It is the Ugly that is so Beautiful': Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo Burlesque."
Come early for the FREE Donna Summer concert at Coney Island at 7:30 pm - we WILL be holding the door until the concert is over! In fact, we very well might BE THERE so LOOK FOR THE MONSTER/BEAUTIES! http://www.brooklynconcerts.com/9summerbio.html