BUTCH Voices LA – Swagger
World Premiere of these artists… like you’ve never seen them before
Saturday night performers include…
Artist, performer and ‘“a genre unto herself,” PHRANC has gone from being the All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger, to Hot August Phranc, to the Cardboard Cobbler…always rocking her famous phlat-top and bulldagger swagger.
BUTCHLALIS DE PANOCHTITLAN (BdP) is Raquel Gutierrez and Claudia Rodriguez, a Chicano performance group out of Los Angeles. Come for their hot suits and butch attire, stay for their critical commentary on racism, classism, and urban development. “The self-described butch dykes/transgender butches/genderqueer spoken-word entertainers expand the lexicon of transexuality and its physical and psychological neighborhoods and communities.”
A “jolt of creative and comedic energy”, D’LO is a Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian, music producer & teacher of queer masculinity workshops who says “You can’t call yourself a revolutionary if you have a problem being nice.”
Performance Curator Raquel Gutierrez is creating a never-before-seen world premiere of performance cabaret from some of your favorite artists. Peggy Shaw, Phranc, D’Lo, Angie Evans, Butchlalis De Panochtitlan, Heather Cassills, Dawn Kaspar, and Jasper James and much more! “I’m super excited about this and hope you’ll come support this big community-based endeavor, it’s gonna subvert the monolithic identity structure and like totally uphold it at the same time. Yay, contradiction!! ”
