Dance Theatre Journal - Trashy students get their grubby mits all over it


Cover: Penny Arcade, Photo by Christa Holka                               

Trashing Dance Theatre Journal

We are thrilled to announce the forthcoming issue of Trashing Dance Theatre Journal co-edited by João Florêncio and Owen Parry.

This special issue of Dance Theatre Journal is a dedicated and rigorous exploration of Trash in art, performance, work, and club culture. It features interviews with performance star and living-legend Penny Arcade, club performer Mouse, sex worker and activist Thierry Schaffauser, plus articles exploring the work of John Sex, Danish collective dunst, Club Wotever and the 'lowest form of performance' - living street sculptures, wasted works, and contaminated performances. Forms of trashy articulation including soap box articles, TV Chat Shows and Tabloid Newspapers interrupt and compliment more formal essays and interviews in this special issue!

Contributors include:

Augusto Corrieri
Bryony Kimmings
Eirini Kartsaki
Johanna Linsley
Lisa Wesley
Lorena Rivero de Beer
Marcia Farquhar
Marianne Mulvey
Mathias Danbolt
Oriana Fox
R. Justin Hunt
Rachel Lois Clapham
Season Butler
Tero Nahua
The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein
Vikki Chalklin

Trashing Dance Theatre Journal will be available to purchase through the Unbound stall at the Trashing Performance Public Programme.

See www.thisisperformancematters.co.uk for details

All Man, All Woman and Half Bear


Oriana interviewing Mouse on episode 2 of The O Show
14 July 2011, Elevator Gallery, Hackney Wick, London

Mouse: Well, actually I consider myself to be more of a man than any man I know. When I’ve got my strap-on, you’re finished. I am all man and all woman and half bear.


Mouse demonstrates her warm-up routine for Oriana and 2nd guest Krystin Lovelace.

Mouse Training


These are just a couple of stills from last Thursday's O Show with special guest Mouse. The episode will be posted online next week. Today I'm busy editing down the transcribed interview for a special edition of Dance Theatre Journal edited by Owen Parry and Joao Florencio on the theme of Trashing Performance. Just to give you a sneak peak, here's is what Mouse had to say about her academic training ...

"It’s hard to imagine that after A-levels and Drama school all I really needed to do was stick a funnel in my arse and squirt water out of it. Why go to drama school really?"

The O Show - 14 July 2011 - featuring Mouse


The O Show is hosted by the professional artist and self-taught therapist Oriana Fox and features interviews with artists and performers alongside how-to advice and makeovers. Guests on the next show are provocative club performer Mouse and lovelorn video artist Kristen Lovelace. Mouse is famous for her explicit live acts in which she demonstrates the squirt-power of her muscle-lined orifices, the vagina and anus. We’re going to get deep inside Mouse and find out what makes her tick. She will also perform her latest double act for the finale of the show. Second guest, Kristen Lovelace recently broke up with her fiance - she had a plan and now she ’ s at a loose end. Oriana will get her back on her feet so she can use this experience as fodder for yet more video art. Tune into The O Show and find out what you need to know about life, love and kegel exercises.

(This episode will be filmed for later broadcasting online. It will also be transcribed and published in a forthcoming issue of Dance Theatre Journal focusing on the theme of Trashing Performance edited by Owen Parry and Joao Florencio.) 

Thursday 14 July 2011, 7.30-9pm @ Elevator Gallery

5th Floor, 9 Queen's Yard, White Post Lane, London E9 5EN

Transport: Overground: Hackney Wick Bus:26.30.276.388.488.UL1