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performances, workshops, and residencies
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| June 30 | Berlin |
Book launch Entry: 4-8 euros
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| June 25/26 | Berlin |
MAN FOR A DAY (all genders) Entry: 4-8 euros
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| June 6-11 | Vienna |
What a Drag Festival, at BRUT Theater, Zieglergasse 25 followed by a DJ-set by das_em
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| February 20 | Brazil |
Man for a Day Workshop
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| February 19 | Brazil |
Diane performs Drag Kings and Subjects
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| February 15 | London |
Doors 6-Midnight -Film Clips, Talks & Performances from 8pm Royal Vauxhall Tavern
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| February 11,12 | Brighton |
Diane performs Donald Does Dusty
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| January 29 | Norway |
Never or Now Festival
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| January 24/25 | Norway |
Man for a Day
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| PAST EVENTS 2010 | |
| September 4 & 5, 11 &12 | Berlin |
Man for a Day Workshop fee: 150euros (one bursary of 50euros is available per workshop for someone with insufficient funds, and an abundance of desire)
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| July 24 & 25 | Glasgow |
Drift Merchant Drift Merchant is based on the Situationist idea of a "derive" - a "detournement" - as a way to re-invent and change the way that the city is used. I will also be performing my "two banana dance" as part of the end of the festival celebration with artists performers and crew. Curry and performances from Roger (The Devils Chauffeur) Ely, Ian ( Mischief La Bas) Smith and a galaxy of surprise appearances in the glorious surroundings of Sloans Ballroom. Ticket price includes 2 course meal. PERFORMANCE BANQUET at Sloan’s July 25, 2010 To book in advance: merchantcityfestival.com
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| June 24 | Vitoria, Spain |
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| April 27 | Glasgow |
April 27, 2010 |
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| April 5 | New York, NY |
April 5, 2010 |
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| March 13, 14 | Berlin, Germany |
for enrollment & further questions,
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| April 3, 4 | New York, NY |
Location TBA The Man for a Day Workshop is a unique experience. “This is a workshop that I’ve been teaching for nearly 20 years and women, (and the occasional man or trans) have taken it for a variety of reasons. Maybe during a lifetime of observing men in your neighborhood, on the subway, in the office, in cars, in your home, etc., you have a certain curiosity about how they “get away” with certain behaviors that would be considered undesirable in women. You might want to experience the transformation from female to male as a way to intercept your so-called “normal” behavior as woman, and discover new responses. Think about the process of buying a car.......as a woman, it is generally assumed that you know nothing about cars, and car dealers generally reflect that attitude. After a workshop, one particularly convincing participant actually went to a car dealership and used her male guise as a means to cut a deal that she said would have been unthinkable as a woman. Other women have attended the workshop and then met with a lover (male or female) for a night of role-play thrills. Some participants are actresses and opera singers, who had “pants” roles and they wanted to make their characters more authentic. Occasionally, a woman has attended the workshop who wanted to explore her desire to become a man permanently, and then the workshop was a catalyst for that decision. For most participants - their reason to commit to being a man for a day, or a weekend was to have fun, to be outrageous. By exploring familiar situations, like going to a bar or restaurant and interacting with others in a new identity, there was a chance to play with ideas that are taken so seriously on a daily basis - hey what are you? A Man or a Woman??? Of course, women have cross-dressed throughout history and used the guise to their advantage. An important distinction to the workshop is that the intention is not to “pass”, but rather to question what is considered a given. In the course of constructing another identity, one instantly sees other possibilities of being. In becoming a man you learn how to “walk the walk” and “talk the talk” without having to wear a testosterone patch! This is a chance to escape for one day from the social construction of a “woman” identity and to literally discover a new YOU!!” During the weekend workshop, either Diane or a make-up artist will give each person an individual make-over and will provide facial hair, 5 o’clock shadow, etc. Each person is responsible for the male clothes they will need for their male identity. Please also bring: hair gel, a wide elasticated bandage (5inches minimum) to bind breasts, and a fake penis - (condom stuffed with cotton wool for example). We will learn how to take up space, walk, eat, drink, pick up objects, smile, etc. as men. We will interact with each other, in character, and develop our new identities. The workshop culminates in a visit to a public place such as bar, strip club, dance club, where we will test out our new identities. We each take from the workshop what is useful to us, but we all leave with the shared experience (and the kick) of going beyond our “regular” selves and expanding our gender repertoire.
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| January 6 - January 31, 2010 | A.I.R. Gallery |
A.I.R. Gallery’s Organized by Kharis Kennedy January 6 - January 31, 2010 Works included in The Man I Wish I Was range in dates from the 1970’s to 2009 and include sculpture, photography, painting, drawing, video and text-based work. Diane will be exhibiting two works from her "Ideal Homo Series". Exhibiting artists: Renee Cox, Enid Crow, Kerry Downey, Kelly Flynn, Coco Fusco, Francie Bishop Good, Catherine Kunkemueller, Liz Lessner, Sarah Maple, Sands Murray-Wassink, Dominique Paul, Phranc, Shannon Plumb, Julia Kim Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Diane Torr, Linn Underhill, Martha Wilson. For more info, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| PAST EVENTS 2009 | |
| November 13 2009 5-7.30pm: | Northumbria University |
Friday November 13th, Diane Torr, Gallery North For more info, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| November 10 2009 7pm: | GOETHE-INSTITUT Glasgow |
POETRY EVENT: SCHILLER AND BURNS A 250th Birthday Celebration TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2009, 7 PM Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” (Freude schöner Götterfunken), set to music by Ludwig van Beethoven for the final movement of his 9th Symphony, celebrates the ideal of unity of humankind and has become the European anthem. Burns’ “Auld Lang Syne” is known across the world and is often sung to celebrate the start of a new year. These and other poems, some of them set to music, will be part of our Birthday Celebration in honour of the two poets, on the day of the 250th anniversary of Schiller’s birth. Sheila Dickson, senior lecturer in German at Glasgow University, will give a talk on parallels in the poets’ lives and similarities in their works; the artist Diane Torr and the writer Louise
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| October 22 2009 6-8pm: | GoMA, Glasgow |
Diane Torr, talk & performance, GoMA, Free event For more info please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| 9 April - 1 November 2009: | GoMA, Glasgow |
sh(OUT), 9 April - 1 November 2009 A photograph from my installation, IDEAL HOMO (1999) is on exhibit as part of the sh(OUT) Contemporary art and human rights exhibition. The exhibition which celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex art and culture includes work by Patricia Cronin, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Sunil Gupta, David Hockney, Holly Johnson, Deborah Kass, Ins A Kromminga, Sadie Lee, Chad McCail, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Grayson Perry, Piere et Gilles, Jack Pierson, Lizzie Towe, Del LaGrace Volcano and myself. For more info please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| August 1, 2009: | Incheon, Korea |
DISBAND, Their work as individuals is also part of the main exhibition, as is the work of Carolee Schneeman, among others. For more info please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| April 18 - 19, 2009: | New York, NY |
DIANE TORR’S MAN FOR A DAY WORKSHOP For more info, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com MAN FOR A DAY WORKSHOP During the weekend workshop, either Diane or a make-up artist will give each person an individual make-over and will provide facial hair, 5 o’clock shadow, etc. Each person is responsible for the male clothes they will need for their male identity. Please also bring: hair gel, a wide elasticated bandage (5inches minimum) to bind breasts, and a fake penis - (condom stuffed with cotton wool for example). We will learn how to take up space, walk, eat, drink, pick up objects, smile, etc. as men. We will interact with each other, in character, and develop our new identities. The workshop culminates in a visit to a public place such as bar, strip club, dance club, where we will test out our new identities. We each take from the workshop what is useful to us, but we all leave with the shared experience (and the kick) of going beyond our “regular” selves and expanding our gender repertoire. Diane Torr is an artist, director and educator working in performance, film and installation. She made performances in New York for over 25 years. Her work explores notions of gender and the erotic, and focuses on strategies to reinvent the narratives of sex and gender. Her solo drag performances have been seen around town since 1982. Diane’s art performances and installations are presented in galleries, performance venues and festivals throughout the U.S. and Europe. She has taught Drag King Workshops in over 20 cities, including Istanbul, Helsinki, Berlin, Glasgow, Lisbon, New York, and New Delhi. She was a protagonist of the feature film, Venus Boyz, by Swiss filmmaker, Gabriel Baur. Diane’s work has been the subject of profiles on BBC2 Q.E.D. and HBO’s “Reel Sex”, in the Washingon Post, Village Voice, London Independent, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, German Vogue, among others. She also receives grants and awards from NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, Art Matters, Yorkshire Arts, and the Scottish arts Council. In 2002 Diane re-situated her art practice to Glasgow, where she is a Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art. Diane’s book, co-authored by steve Bottoms and completed in February 2009, Performing Masculinity, is forthcoming from U. of Michigan Press.
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| March 11-14: | Tron Theater, Glasgow |
Diane does DONALD DOES DUSTY For more info please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| February 18, 2009: | Wimbledon School of Art |
25 Years of Sex & Drag For more info please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| PAST EVENTS 2008 | |
| September / October: | Berlin |
MAN FOR A DAY Workshops in Berlin late Sep/early October. For more info and to register, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| PAST EVENTS 2007 | |
| July 10-12, July 19-20 | Rome, Italy |
FIRST INTERNATIONAL DRAG KING FESTIVAL IN ITALY: July 19-20 Have a kingly summer y'all! For more info and to register, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com |
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| June 21, 22, 2008 | New York, NY |
Drag King Workshop at Hope Martin Studio, 39 W 14th St Ste 501, btw 5th and 6th Aves We will go out publicly on Saturday evening to a place everyone agrees upon. For more info and to register, please email me at diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| February 17 | 2pm |
Diane Torr performing with DISBAND at MOMA/PS1 << performance lineup >> 30th Anniversary Reunion of DISBAND featuring Ilona Granet, Donna Hennes, Diane Torr and Martha Wilson. Sunday, February 17, 2008 at 2pm << directions to MOMA/PS1 >>
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| December 1 | 9pm |
Diane Torr presents A saucy mix of comedy, performance, burlesque and music in aid of The Terence Higgins Trust Scotland MC: Viv Gee, comedienne Performers: Bands: Tickets (on the door): £7 (£5 concessions)
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| October 26 | 4pm |
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 Speakers: Performers: 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 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 …
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| September 17 - December 3 | 18.00-19.30 |
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, Please email Dancehouse at info@dancehouse.org for more details and for registration.
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| Aug 6-10 | 10am - 3pm |
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 Please email Diane at diane.torr@googlemail.com for more details and for registration.
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| July 5-7 | TBA |
Pradillo Theatre, Madrid - July 5-7 (details to follow) For more info, email Diane: diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| July 14 | TBA |
Kaos, London - July 14 (details to follow) For more info, email Diane: diane.torr@googlemail.com
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| Saturday March 31, 2007 | New
York, NY |
Spaces are
limited so please email Diane if you are interested in participating:
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| Beginning Monday Jan 29, 2007 | SYT,
Glasgow |
RELEASE
TECHNIQUE CLASSES taught by Diane Torr: 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.
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| PAST EVENTS 2006 | |
| December 16, 17 | Berlin,
Germany |
MAN
FOR A DAY WORKSHOP:
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| October 25, 26, 27,28 at 8pm | Centre
for Contemporary Art, Glasgow |
DONALD
DOES DUSTY
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| May 6-7 | Aberystwyth,
Wales |
Talk – 25
Years of Sex and Gender |
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| May 18 | University
of Leeds |
Talk – 25
Years of Sex and Gender
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| June 17 | London |
Performance
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