pere faura * striptease

striptease

images:

performance poster (photo: pere faura)

photos by Goshia Haduch

photos by adriano boscato

video_sequence:

title:

striptease

date:

2008

tags:

performance striptease lecture desire seduction absence cigarette demi-moore

concept and direction:

pere faura

performers:

pere faura and demi moore

video:

pere faura

music:

carlos jobim and annie lenox

lights:

paul schimmel and pere faura

text excerpted from:

- "Undressing the First Amendment and Corestting the Striptease Dancer" by Judith Lynne Hanna
- "Striptease. The Art of Spectacle and Transgression" by Dahlia Schweitzer
- "Narrative Striptease in the Nightclub Era" by Ben Urish

dramaturgical advise:

jeroen fabius

duration:

45 minutes

producer:

frascati theater, amsterdam

premiere:

Frascati Theater, Something Raw Festival, february 2008

abstract:

Heidi: “I wanted to tell a story. I had always thought that just to strip didn’t make sense, there has to be some sort of a reason.”

Venus de Light: “I regard what I do as performing and as theater... as a creative expression it has given me so much freedom to enjoy the performing aspect of it. What I'm doing is creating a fantasy up there. I want them to fantasize that I'm obviously the best woman hat they could possibly have in bed.”

Levine: “I must remain accessible to all, possessed by none.”

Dixie Evans: “Just pretend you are making a tiny movie. Concentrate on your act; don't look at the audience. Capture the people, make them pay attention and hold them, fascinated, until you're trough. Then, on your bow, give them plenty of your own self, and blow them kisses.”

“Striptease” is a striptease to the gaze,
to the artistic gaze and the sexual gaze.
A video-lecture-performance about the mechanism of desire in theater.

press:

> see all press
date	author / publication	lang
2008.February	Mirjam van der Linden / Volkskrant	nl
2008.March	Edu Lartzanguren / berria.info	euskera
2008.July	Cristina Rubio / elmundo	ca
2008.July	/ suzyq	es
2008.September	/ vicenzae.org	it

archieve:

date	venue
2007.June	(try out) ITS Festival, Amsterdam
2007.September	(try out) Nagib Festival, Slovenia
2008.February	(premiere) Something Raw Festival, Amsterdam
2008.March	Centro Huarte, Pamplona, Spain
2008.May	Fabrica de Movimentos, Porto
2008.July	Kalamata dance festival, Kalamata, Greece
2008.July	l'antic teatre. barcelona
2008.August	Implustanz Festival, Vienna, Austria
2008.September	Operaestate Festival, Bassano del Grappa
2009.January	Musonturm, Frankfurt
2009.February	Festival Escena Contemporanea, Madrid

technical needs:

Material brought by the company:
- 2 video cameras
- 1 computer
- 1 video swift box
- 2 20m BNC video cables
- minijack-jack cable to connect the computer to the sound table
- video adaptor from computer to video projector

Material provided by the performing space:
- black linoleum floor
- video projector
- white back wall or horizon

The space:
If the space doesn’t have a white back wall, then the white screen or horizon will be installed during the show in front of the black back curtain.

The lights: (see light plan)
- 8 x 1KW PC + Barndoors (front lights)
- 10 x 1KW Fresnell + Barndoors (back and side lights)
- 3 x Asymmetrical floodlights (to illuminate the back wall)
- 1 x 650 W zoom profile any degree (spot light)
- 9 x Floorstand (3 x flood, 6 x fresnell)

The sound:
- audio from camera
- audio from computer

Building up time:
Besides the time needed to set up the lights and the sound (between 4 and 5 hours), the performer needs to be using the stage for 2 hours -once everything is installed and before the audience comes in- to record the video-conference that will be shown later in the performance