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THROWS LIKE A GIRL ROCKS
February 8 - 24, 2007
a provocative women's performance series featuring artists working
at the intersections of theater, performance art and popular music
featuring Gretchen Phillips, Lynn Breedlove, and Bitch
Rude Mechs is proud to announce the fourth incarnation of “Throws Like a Girl” – a groundbreaking women’s performance art series that celebrates the contributions of original female theatre artists to our cultural landscape while promoting women’s voices in the American theatre. All performances take place at The Off Center, February 8 through February 24. This year’s series, entitled “Throws Like a Girl Rocks,” features artists working at the intersections of theater, performance art and popular music. Gretchen Phillips, Lynn Breedlove and Bitch all have devoted followings as rock stars. Their “Throws Like a Girl” performances embody a combination of music, spoken word, and fierce feminist irony with a rock-and-roll edge.
WHERE:
The Off Center - 2211-A Hidalgo St., Austin, TX 78702
TICKETS:
Sliding Scale: $12 - $15
Call 512-476-RUDE (7833)
Or buy tickets online
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DON'T STOP BELIEVING Austin music legend Gretchen Phillips (Two Nice Girls, Girls in the Nose, Phillips & Driver) serves up new stories of emotional struggles and the songs on how to deal with them. Her choice to put a lesbian point of view front and center in her songs has been cited as an inspiration to such indie pop sensations as Le Tigre, The Butchies and Pansy Division. "Gretchen Phillips is a living lesbian legend." "The emotional resonance of Phillips' music is universal, which in a way - makes it even more radical in its implications." |
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ONE FREAK SHOW: LESS ROCK, MORE HILARITY At the vanguard of the queer/trans community, Lynn Breedlove is a visionary who has long been shaping revolutionary art. His/her "One Freak Show" is queer homohop punkrock standup comedy on transgender bodies, feminism, family, and "community." His/her plan for world peace includes gender nesting dolls, cross-dressing stuffed animals, and a new edition of "Our Bodies Ourselves" for men. Breedlove is the singer/lyricist for Tribe 8 and author of the novel "Godspeed." "How absolutely wonderful to go see a gender-bent and bending border-crossing whip-smart cutting-edge performer who allows the audience to become children for a few moments." "Maybe most of this stuff will never make it to the mainstream. That's the mainstream's loss" |
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BITCH Formerly of Bitch and Animal, Bitch has launched her solo career and now busts out twist-yer-guts love and hate songs with punchy rhymes and defiant girl music. She has shared the stage with artists including Ani Difranco, Pink, Le Tigre, Karen Finley and Murray Hill. "Bitch, sporting brightly colored dreadlocks and arm warmers, gave the most politically charged performance of the evening." "straddles the lines between music, comedy and performance art." |
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2007 marks the fourth incarnation of the “Throws Like A Girl” Performance Festival. The series was launched in 2000 and featured Holly Hughes (“Preaching to the Perverted”), Deb Margolin (“O Wholly Night and Other Jewish Solecisms”), and Peggy Shaw (“Menopausal Gentleman”). The festival was such a resounding success that Rude Mechs, in collaboration with performance curator Jill Dolan and The University of Texas, decided to bring the event back as often as time and funds would allow. The second TLAG was presented in 2002 and featured Marty Pottenger (“City Water Tunnel #3”), Peggy Shaw (“To My Chagrin”) and Terry Galloway (“Lardo Weeping”). The third TLAG in 2005 was curated to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the WOW Café – the legendary OBIE Award winning NYC performance space collectively owned and operated by women for women. It featured Deb Margolinn (“Index to Idioms”), Carmelita Tropicana and Marga Gomez (“Single Wet Female”) and Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver (“Dress Suits to Hire”). |
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