Tag: 2016

  • Eleven Dancers in a permanent state of nudity

    Eleven Dancers in a permanent state of nudity

    Celebrated Belgian choreographer Thierry Smits has been creating dance productions and performance pieces for his own internationally renowned company Compagnie Thor for over 25 years now. Their very inspired work is frequently deemed controversial as Smits insists on pushing the envelope as far as he can.  He shows a fascination in his work that explores our…

  • The Radical Eye : Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection

    The Radical Eye : Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection

    Sir Elton John has always been a avid collector whether it be homes, cars or clothes.  queerguru knows about the latter as a few years ago we were involved in helping sell off some of his vast wardrobe of clothes from the very best of the world’s designers with every penny being donated to the…

  • La La Land

    La La Land

    The wonderful astonishing opening sequence of a full scale choreographed musical number on a flyover in the middle of an L.A. traffic jam sets the pace for what is clearly one of the most exhilarating movie musicals for years.  La La Land is only the third film helmed by 31 year old Damien Chazelle (he…

  • Nocturnal Animals

    Nocturnal Animals

    Ex fashion guru Tom Ford may start his new movie in the vacuous and pretentious wealthy L.A. art world where everyone is obsessed with appearances, but the other two strands of this multi-layered story take them, and us way out of our comfort zone. After her latest rather outrageous Opening featuring obese naked middle-aged female…

  • On Christopher Street : Transgender Stories

    On Christopher Street : Transgender Stories

    For the past two years New York award-winning celebrity photographer Mark Seliger has been taking photographs that tell the stories of transgender people who live in his West Village neighborhood.  Seliger said he would approach people he met on the street with a very simple pitch: “I’m working on a body of work and a…