There are a million demands on our time during Pride Month, so I will cut to the chase here: if you haven’t yet experienced the Fresh Meat Festival – you MUST check it out this year (but get your tickets in advance if you can, because these shows sell out in a hot tranny minute!).
The Fresh Meat Festival is an annual festival of transgender and queer performance. Fresh Meat attracts enormous, sold-out crowds and national attention for good reason: it features stellar talent and is the only event of its kind in North America. And this year, the outrageously popular festival is bursting at the seams with world premieres.
The 2010 Festival boasts Fresh Meat’s biggest lineup ever. From modern dance to hip hop, freestyle to folk, ceremonial music to roots rock, this year’s festival offers a top-notch roster of transgender and queer trailblazers. Sri Lankan, Middle Eastern, Appalachian and Mexican-American voices come together in the acclaimed Festival that is still the only event of its kind in the nation.
Some of the world premieres this year include:
- Anthony Robbins, move over! Always-outrageous performance maverick Annie Danger dons a headset and becomes the ultimate life coach. PowerPoint will never be the same again. (world premiere)
- The Barbary Coast Cloggers (the world’s only all-gay Appalachian clogging troupe) dance the story of Jeanne Bonnet, who lived as a man and rescued women from Barbary Coast brothels in the 1800s. (world premiere)
- Sean Dorsey Dance mines Craigslist ‘Missed Connections’ personal ads for a dance theater exposé on queer and tranny online love. (world premiere)
- SoliRose calls on ancestors from Lebanon, Turkey and West Africa to create a gorgeous mix of storytelling, live oud (Middle-Eastern lute) and song. (world premiere)
- The GAPA Men’s Chorus (Gay Asian Pacific Alliance) woos us with odes to queer love – including Vietnamese folk songs, Tagalog pop hits and doo-wop with a twist.
- After bringing down the house last year, hip hop champs Allan Frias Productions (of So You Think You Can Dance fame) returns and fuses their signature juicy hip hop with old-school vogue performance. (world premiere)
- If Merle Haggard and Keith Richards had a tranny lovechild, it would be sultry rocker Shawna Virago, whose new songs explore the adolescent roots we would all rather forget. (world premiere)
Fresh Meat Productions is the nation’s only arts organization with year-round transgender arts programs, which include the Fresh Meat Festival, Artistic Director Sean Dorsey’s award-winning dance company (Sean Dorsey Dance) and film and video events. Fresh Meat Productions was founded in 2002 to foster the artistic development of transgender artists, build community and audiences for transgender and queer artistic expression, and to promote dialogue and understanding through the arts.
The Fresh Meat Festival runs June 17 through June 20 at Z Space. Buy tickets now!
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