Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterWhilst the rest of the world may be dealing with the wrath of winter and staying inside and trying to keep warm, this is how we spend Mondays in Miami. Doing Salsa in the sunshine. This afternoon the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts will be hosting a FREE hour-long Salsa Workshop for all … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterYou don’t have to be gay to be fabulous but when you are restoring an exquisite 18th-century residence and ancient bastide set amidst the rolling pastures of Gascony in the South-West of France, it certainly helps. Award-winning London restaurateur Marwan Badran and his partner business entrepreneur Jeremy Grose have spent 10 years bringing this beautiful chateau … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe Sao Paulo based Brazilian photographer Fabio da Motta has developed quite an affinity with ‘shibari’ which is an ancient Japanese artistic form of rope bondage. He has taken a series of very powerful images that explore bondage as an integral part of his compositions. His stunning body of work is very inspired by … Continue reading
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Now Florida can see the legendary all-male ballet troupe Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo on stage and on the screen. This very talented American all-male drag ballet corps which parodies the conventions and clichés of romantic and classical ballet are on tour and playing at several venues in the State including the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami on March 4th.
The much-beloved group originally formed back in 1974 (and who said gay men never stick to anything …) and last year was the subject of an exhilarating documentary that too picked up numerous awards when it was first released. Rebels on Pointe is now available on DVD from Amazon and all the usual retailers, but when it first premiered in Miami queerguru sat down with director Bobbi Jo Hart to find out how she managed to persuade the guys to let her cameras go backstage and right in their faces (!) for the very first time. It all makes for fascinating viewing and makes you appreciate their live performances even more.
For tickets for Adrienne Arsht performance and the rest of their world tour http://trockadero.org/performances/
For Rebels On Point DVD click HERE
(The movie has been nominated for a Queerty Award of Best Documentary which is decided by votes from the public: if you want to add yours go to https://queerty.com/)
Meanwhile here is our interview with Bobbi Jo-Hart
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe French filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz has had a lifetime fascination with men and women who refuse to conform to the strictures of gender roles. In fact, his Teddy Award-winning Documentary Film in 2013 Bambi, a profile of French entertainer Marie-Pierre Pruvot is one of the best transgender films ever made. Lifshitz also made a film and a book called Les … Continue reading
