Confessions of a Dancewhore

Synopsis

Fusing comedy, burlesque, drag and new media performance Confessions of a Dancewhore explores the contradictions and clichés of contemporary British queer life. Politics and pop culture meet in this foul-mouthed theatrical cabaret - an accomplished and vivid solo performance for everyone who has ever felt like an 'other'. Taking a fresh approach to an established theatrical genre, the result is a full-length show that mixes the old with the new, combining elements of cabaret, drag and stand up with high tech multimedia and live visuals to make a unique multi-faceted theatrical experience.

Our Review:

30 June 2010

Confessions of a Dancewhore is a sensual and intellectual feast, an episodic exploration of contemporary queer male identity which could very loosely be described as cabaret but which pushes the form to extremes.

Its creator, Michael Twaits, is a compelling performer whose combination of rage, defiant eccentricity and irresistible vulnerability brings to mind at times a young Quentin Crisp, at times Sebastian Horsley, even occasionally Robert Lepage. Confessions of a Dancewhore is visually and aurally inventive, structurally audacious and polemically forceful.

It’s just that, for me, the polemic didn’t quite hang together as a whole. I was deeply moved at some points, and visually delighted at others. At some moments I believed this postmodern manifesto for multiple queer identities. But overall, I couldn’t quite shake off a sense of the gaps and prejudices within the forcefully delivered argument.

The finale, for instance, is either sophistic...

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Ryan Doherty - 24 June 2010:

Fun froth meets brutal politics. Really inventive and creative work. Unlike anything else I've seen in the West Endq...

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