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NOVEMBER It, 2011
La Femme Magnifique
Oregon Proudly Presents
CONFLUENCE
W I L L A M E T T E VALLEY LGBT CHORUS
presents
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Glamour Shots
Kaj-anne Pepper’s Genderfantasy to debut
at The Headwaters Theatre
BY RYAN J. PRADO
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...be at peace, open hearts, spread joy,
share the love. A concert of choral
wishes for this holiday season.
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P o r t la n d
Saturday, December 3 at 7:30 pm
Now performing at
Metropolitan Community Church
2400 NE Broadway
Sunday, December 11, 2011
P>a reelle X V ShowpCace
208 K W 3rd A te.
To purchase tickets and for directions,
see a Chorus member or go to
(Doors 5 — Show 6pm
conf1uencechorus.org
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Sometimes all it takes to get a great idea Reed and Lillian Rossetti, reveling in fluid
off the ground is a little bit o f support. As a movements while donning dirty glamour
member o f notorious drag troupe Sissyboy, makeup and teased blonde wigs. “Tranny-
Kaj-anne Pepper established a fertile founda pop” purveyor Cabiria Jones— o f CJ and the
tion for the power of collaborative art, con Dolls— contributes beats to Pepper’s sound
ceptual dance and the strange beauty o f gen- collage, and local business Fliptography will
derqueer narcissism. W ith Sissyboy a thing provide an installation for attendees to par
of the past, Pepper’s oeuvre had taken on the ticipate in, producing 60-page personal
form o f drag, painting, dance and much more, flipbooks to take as souvenirs.
The concept o f image and gender as so
but one project loomed on such a grand scale
that without a strong shoulder to lean on, it cial constructs resides at the heart o f Pep
may not have happened.
per’s creation, and with flourishes like
Fliptography, he hopes
Thanks to a generous
“ It’s always going to be
audiences will be able to
grant from the Regional
evolving,
just
like
our
better grasp the ideas
Arts and Culture Council
behind his performance
last December, a whole lot construction of gender is
o f rehearsing, planning
by delving headfirst into
always evolving, and just
them.
and collaboration— and
like
the
construction
of
how
the artistic flexibility in
“[The
partnership
herent in facing a giant we see each other in our
with] Fliptography is
learning curve, Pepper’s
own identities, how gender another comment on the
Genderfantasy has finally
construction o f a person
lays
on
the
body,
and
how
I
come to life.
ality and o f image, and
how rapidly each still,
Pepper, 26, describes the believe that gender in
work’s drag/dance premise
frozen moment changes
essence is a fantasy.”
and how we’re really a
as “an exploration of queer
-K A J-A N N E PEPPER
collection of these frozen
glamour and quicksilver
identities which shift and change alliances moments, and how that applies to gender
and relationships.” But the scope of the per and relationships,” explains Pepper. “W hen
formance isn’t easily summed up in a sound everyone is going through that installation,
bite. Instead, Genderfantasy is prone to ab they’re allowing themselves to be part of
straction. Based as it is in an undefined, that process o f the construction o f their own
dream-like habitat that could be a nightclub glamour. They’re literally initfating them
or a theater, with the choreography repre selves into an aspect o f what we’ve been
senting either dance pageant or competition, working with for a while.”
nothing in Genderfantasy seems certain
As a performance, Pepper says Genderfan
within the’identities o f the characters or the tasy is also a vehicle to reveal histories of lib
location.
eration, and to pay homage to his queer an
The performance itself consists o f Pepper, cestors. Through the process of self-discovery
along with dancers Keyon Gaskin, Michael and identity, Pepper hoped to answer for him-