le menu des performances:
Escape From the Famiily Home
Oh, Death
Bags
Deep Feelings
Baby
Hell in a Handbag
short works
Escape From The Family Home
2009
56 min
DH...trying to sleep in the family house but there is anxiety so great it wakes Dynasty Handbag. She hears the patriarch coming up the driveway, his tires crunching the gravel. There is no where to hide, every room is a disaster. To whence should she escape? Through the upstairs! To the neighbor, to the closet, to poetry, to fame, to the city, the forest, where shall she gain back her power? Through violence, make-believe, cigarettes, fantasy....where!!!!??? All of the above.
selected performance dates
The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York(excerpt)
The Lab, San Francisco (video footage taken at The Lab)
Dixon Place, NY, NY
Bags
2008
19 min
This is the story of DH hopping through an emotional minefield of 5 bags on the floor all talking, wanting, needing, unrelenting. The brown paper one is used, sexy, persuasive and oh so tiring after a long bout of fisting. The black one is so demanding, yet keeps changing it's mind and speaks deeply and rudely. The whispy whilte wants only to watch, watch as you dance for her... says dance for me! The blue one has a rotten cockney accent and becomes suicidal at the thought of abandonment. These bags seem so familiar. DH blindly goes from bag to bag, looking for that special something. This clip shows the white bag playing a ruthless choreographer - eventually turning her into Mick Jagger with a dagger.
written and performed by Jibz Cameron
creative consultant, Pascale Gatzen
music by Dynasty Handbag, The Rolling Stones
17 min
performance dates:
Dance Theater Workshop, NY, NY (premier)
Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA
The Kitchen, NY
Vortex Reperetory Theater, Austin, TX
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Oh, Death
2008
15 min
DH gets so frustrated with herself she shoots herself in the face. Guilt forces her to visit herself in the hospital and plan her own funeral.
written and performed by Jibz Cameron
video by Hedia Maron
music by Dynasty Handbag
performance dates:
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, NY
Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA
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Deep Feelings
2007
30 min
Dynasty Handbag revisits some icky childhood sexual adventures and it's influence on aduit relationships and internalized homophobia. A Dr. Phillis keeps inturrupting her process with criticism and bad advice. Along the journey she rapes her house cat, meets an octopus with a knife, is tempted into a warm cave by a lion who makes her vaccuum, a sweet and unintelligable sea horse, and moleststs a teen slut passed out on a picnic table, which is what is seen in this clip.
written, performed and video edit by Jibz Cameron
music by Dynasty Handbag, Prince, Too $hort
Counterpulse Theater, SF, CA
DIxon Place, NY, NY
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Baby
2006
60 min
Dynasty Handbag gives birth to an unwanted unruly baby represented by a plastic
bag with a red light inside that flashes when it talks. The baby will not
let Dynasty Handbag work, won't eat what Dynasty Handbag feeds it, has nightmares
that will not let her rest, and is critical of her creative process.
After a spastic brawl, the baby finally leaves on its own accord. Dynasty
Handbag is free, yet still hears the echo of the baby's voice in the midst
of trying desperately to live a normal life, ummm normal.
written, performed, video edit by Jibz Cameron
Music by Dyansty Handbag, Genuine, Sergio Mendez
performance dates:
Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Hell In A Handbag
2006
30 min
Dynasty Handbag's journey through hell.
written, performed, video edit by Jibz Cameron
Music by Dynasty Handbag, Black Sabbath
performance dates
PS122, NY (premier), w/ Nao Bustamante
Vassar Collage, Poughkeepsie, NY
Dixon Place, NY w/ Faye Driscoll
SHORT WORKS - LIVE SHOWS
various dates, times, places, moods, desires
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Get Dressed 2006 |
i cant wait 2005 |
soup eyes 2008 |
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life would be easier if we didn't have feelings 2004 |
in my dreams 2004 |
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