ODC (Venue Partner)
351 Shotwell Street
415-863-6606
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Fauxnique, Photo: Michelle Blioux
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Saturday Nov 7, 2009 (8pm)
Sunday Nov 8, 2009 (7pm)
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$18
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“SF's drag community had its collective breath knocked out of it in 2003 when Fauxnique (aka Monique Jenkinson) was the first biologically female "faux queen" to win the coveted title of Miss Trannyshack. And for good reason too: Fauxnique's performances — in which her formal dance training is on display nearly as often as her makeup skills — are laser-sharp, frequently hilarious, and beautiful to behold. In Jenkinson's newest show, Luxury Items, she turns her mascara-ed gimlet eye to commodity fetishism: designer and counterfeit handbags come to life; perfume ads are dissected via voguing; and Marxism is brought into dialogue with The Pajama Game (1957).”
Matt Sussman, Flavorpill
Performance artist, dancer and ODC Theater Artist-in-Residence Monique Jenkinson (aka Fauxnique) debuts her newest work, Luxury Items. This solo, evening-length, dance-theater-drag extravaganza celebrates all that is deeply, vitally unnecessary.
"Hilarious, with a wicked intellectual spark," Monique Jenkinson is a local treasure of a performing artist whose work hurls itself into the gaps between dance, theater, drag and performance .
Performance, choreography, conception and writing by: Monique Jenkinson
Direction: Ellen Sebastian Chang
JOIN US!
On Saturday: Informal Artist' Talk after the show.
On Sunday: Pre-show reception with ODC Theater Director Rob Bailis at Bar Bambino!
