Upcoming performances, workshops, and residencies

For more info, please email me: diane.torr@googlemail.com

FIRST INTERNATIONAL DRAG KING FESTIVAL IN ITALY:

July 10-12
Rome
www.kingsvillage.it

July 19-20
Milan
Contact:  helen.ibry@gmail.com
Workshop will be hosted by: ArciLesbica Zami Milano

Have a kingly summer y'all!

For more info and to register, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com

Drag King Workshop

at Hope Martin Studio, 39 W 14th St Ste 501, btw 5th and 6th Aves

Workshop times are 12noon-midnight (approx)
June 21 and 12noon- 6pm June 22

We will go out publicly on Saturday evening to a place everyone agrees upon.
Each person is responsible for their own male clothes, and also to bring breast binder (a wide ace bandage is best), and penis-making material, like condom stuffed with cotton wool.

For more info and to register, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com

Diane Torr performing with DISBAND at MOMA/PS1
as part of:: WACK! ART AND THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION

<< performance lineup >>

30th Anniversary Reunion of DISBAND featuring Ilona Granet, Donna Hennes, Diane Torr and Martha Wilson.

Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2pm
MOMA/PS1

<< directions to MOMA/PS1 >>

Diane Torr presents
BROTHER FOR A DAY
on International AIDS Day:

A saucy mix of comedy, performance, burlesque and music in aid of The Terence Higgins Trust Scotland
Including:

MC: Viv Gee, comedienne

Performers:
Neo-Burlesque - Vixens in Silk including the Goddess of Chocolate, clown act by Dusky Champagne, and a manic Dusty Springfield act by singer Violet Tweets
Mister EE
Miss Leggy Pee
Vienna Velvet
San Francisco poet – Hal Duncan
Performance artist – Adrian Howell
Chris Young and his Gay Parrot
Markee
Rambo-Hood

Bands: 
Glasgow Glam Bangers
DJ – hushpuppy (Record Playerz/Death Disco)

Tickets (on the door): £7 (£5 concessions)
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 9:00pm-2:00am
Carnival Arts Centre
34 Albion Street
Glasgow, United Kingdom
tel: 01413323838

If you are in the vicinity of London on Friday, please come along to this:

Presented by The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre and The International Workshop Festival

£30 full price / £15 concessions
Please contact cett@cssd.ac.uk to book your place.

Speakers:
Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths; Lara Clifton, Artistic Producer of The Whoopee Club; Sheryl Dodds, University of Surrey; Darlinda Just Darlinda, New York; Liselle Terret, Central School of Speech and Drama; Diane Torr, Glasgow School of Art

Performers:
Empress Stah; Ryan Styles; Russella; Pia Arber; Red Sarah; Miss Fancy Chance; Doris La Trine; and more …

The event will begin with a roundtable discussion from 4pm. A buffet supper and drinks will be served from 6:30pm. Performances will begin at 7:30pm

The event will bring together theatre makers, theatre thinkers and theatre students to ask:
Is the resurgence of burlesque a continuation of the exploitation of women's bodies or is it potentially part of a new feminism?

Is this performance genre, originally used as a performative platform for women to comment on social and political issues, being reclaimed in the contemporary moment?

Can neo-burlesque be mobilised as a critical space of queer performativity, exploring male and trans burlesque?

This event is part of …
Theatre Materials / Material Theatres: CETT 2007/08 The Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre (CETT) is based at the Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London.  It works to provide a national resource for vocational performing arts training and learning, a focus for theatre research and scholarship, and a site for collaboration, nationally and internationally, between industry, Higher Education, and specialist training providers.

Body Work and Anatomical Release Technique with Diane! (through Dance House)  

September 17th - December 20th 

Classes take place 18.00-19.30 at the Scottish Youth Theatre,
The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, Glasgow. £96 (£72)
Call Dance house to register 0141 552 2442

Please email Dancehouse at info@dancehouse.org for more details and for registration.

A one week exploratory dance/performance workshop with Diane at the Dance Studio, The Bridge, Easterhouse, Glasgow  Aug 6-10 from 10am-3pm.  

This workshop is funded by the Scottish Arts Council under the terms of Diane's artist residency at the Bridge, and is therefore a FREE event.  Participants will be expected to commit for the whole
week.

Please email Diane at diane.torr@googlemail.com for more details and for registration.

Pradillo Theatre, Madrid - July 5-7 (details to follow)

For more info, email Diane: diane.torr@googlemail.com

Kaos, London - July 14 (details to follow)

For more info, email Diane: diane.torr@googlemail.com

Spaces are limited so please email Diane if you are interested in participating:
diane.torr@googlemail.com

RELEASE TECHNIQUE CLASSES taught by Diane Torr:
beginning Monday Jan 29, 2007 18.00-19.30
for eight weeks

arranged by: Dance House, at SYT, Glasgow
info/register: info@dancehouse.org

In Release Technique, anatomically based visual images are given as a stimulus for movement, which enable participants to let go of hidden tensions and realign with the natural forces of gravity and counter balance. Integral to this is the development of an awareness of the body's anatomy and kinesiology. Through the releasing process, we will learn how to move with more freedom and economy. Spontaneous movement explorations will allow us to creatively integrate these changes in our bodies. The experience of initiating movement interiorly allows each participant to develop their unique movement potential and style.   This class is open to all – dance professionals, movers, and anyone who wants to learn to move in a way that is anatomically and energy efficient.

Diane Torr has taught Release Technique for over 25 years.  She originally studied Release with Mary Fulkerson at Dartington College of Arts, and then in New York with Joanne Skinner, Nancy Topf and Andre Bernard.

For more information, please contact: diane.torr@googlemail.com

MAN FOR A DAY WORKSHOP:
weekend of December 16 & 17
Berlin

December 16 - 12h-20h
December 17 - 12h-18h

LOCATION: TBA
FEE: 150euros
(two full scholarships available for those unable to pay)

Enrollment is limited so register now.

For more information, please contact: diane.torr@googlemail.com
 
Contact in Berlin: Nina Peters +49 (30)262 2320

DONALD DOES DUSTY
at the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art),
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

(part of the Glasgay Festival, and a Glasgay Festival commission. 
Funding also provided by Scottish Arts Council.)

October 25, 26, 27,28 at 8pm.
For more details go to www.glasgay.com

For many years Diane Torr harboured the desire to create a performance in celebration of the life of her late brother, Donald Torr, who died from AIDS in 1992. Diane and her two elder brothers, grew up in Mastrick, a new housing estate that pushed into the countryside on the outskirts of Aberdeen, Scotland. Donald was always full of big ideas?, and in 1953, at the age of five, dressed in his mothers clothes, his small boy feet sloshing about in high heels, Donald went trick or treating. This Halloween disguise was only the beginning, and Donald continued his various female impersonations, and other daring explorations throughout his childhood. Then as a young teenager, Dusty Springfield became his role model. She was the only other gay person he knew of so in his eyes they were a team Donald and Dusty. Everyone else was boringly heterosexual. There was only one solution get out of town! At the age of 13, Donald succeeded in persuading his mother to allow him to attend drama school in London. Soon he was performing on TV; and then he became a member of BBC's The Young Generation. He acted and danced and was featured in magazines and newspapers, but it was as a dealer in antiques and property that he ultimately became rich and successful. In DONALD DOES DUSTY, Diane Torr acknowledges and celebrates Donald's huge influence on her life and career as a performer and drag king artist. But, some questions arise - in making a tribute how conveniently deceptive is personal memory? How does grief feed the mystery of one who has been? And, above all, how does she deal with discovering evidence that upsets and contradicts some of her assumptions of who that once-adored person really was?

Talk – 25 Years of Sex and Gender
May 5: 4-6pm
Drag King Workshop
May 6-7
University of Aberystwyth, Wales
Contact: Trisha at par@aber.ac.uk

Talk – 25 Years of Sex and Gender
May 18: 5.15pm
Drag King Workshop
May 19-20
University of Leeds
Contact: Professor Steve Bottoms S.J.Bottoms@leeds.ac.uk

Performance
June 17
Transfabulous Festival, London
Oxford House Theatre. Event will include performances by the following artists: Angela de Castro, Josephine Wilson, Jessica Lauren and Jennifer Maidman and Debra-Jane Appelby.
for more info:
www.transfabulous.co.uk