Cirque

to celebrate myles getting his back flag. plus a croc just because.

Tito had contacted me to do an ambient act for the first Hellhole on both days (Sat and Sun, Halloween weekend). I had prepared a series of moves to slowly space out over 15 minutes. The first night was more improvised and experimental (and we had light rain, and it was outside! – I was very worried about my ability to grip in the rain), so it was a bit stressful, but by night two I had developed a full multicordes act that started with me crawling from behind the billboard above SF Oasis and climbing up the cordes, then having the rigger descend me as I thrashed around to Lingua Ignota. I then wrapped myself in the full length of my cordes and crawled up on the wall looking over the crowd to lots of enthusiasm. ...

[finally uploading this after finding it hard to post on streaming services due to music copyright] this was a duo act myles and i put together during the pandemic for a virtual show called “e-go”, which was one of pseuda’s projects during their curatorial residency at counterpulse and ultimately streamed as a special presentation by princess (a drag night at oasis). we knew from the outset that it would be streamed virtually and choreographed it as such – mid-pandemic i had approached myles asking if he wanted to collaborate on a duo piece where we played with a nontraditional concept of being unable to occupy the same space. ...

slime photoshoot (because it seemed like a good idea at the time) for myles and i, shot in my home studio it was a lot more cold and uncomfortable than i thought it was going to be, and we only had the capacity to do one or two poses.

didn’t do a full writeup at the time, but i trained tito in aerial silk during the pandemic over a period of a few months so we could film this virtual aerial drag piece for the drag performer of the year competition. we knew in advance that this would be filmed, so focused on a few key moves to hit (split silk front split, into cross-back straddle, into belay, into neck hang) during the performance rather than a traditional connected aerial performance. tito’s technique at the end of this time wasn’t particularly clean, but 3 months is really too short a time to finesse transitions and clean climbing etc. ...