You will have fun, says Foreplay’s playful ladies.
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By Rachel Kramer Bussel
Friday, August 27, 2004
The CineKink party was quite the elaborate soiree, with a joint celebration of
the S/M Film Festival and partygoer Elizabeth’s birthday. She got treated
to a sexy burlesque number by Little Brooklyn, then got to blow out the candles
from across the bare stomach of a lovely naked woman.
If you’ve always wanted to try bumping and grinding but didn’t
know how to go about it, get yourself to the Red Hots Burlesque’s (redhotsburlesque.com)
School of Shimmy at Toys in Babeland, and learn how to shake it from the pros.
Sept. 12 is the intro class with Dottie Lux, Peekaboo Pointe and Scooter Pie,
where you’ll get a history of burlesque and then figure out how to create
a persona, use props and makeup, and choreography. The next week you can learn
more advanced skills before debuting your new diva self on the 26th before
a grateful and adoring audience.
“Foreplay: Erotic Improv” is one of those special acts that can
blend comedy and sex without diminishing either. Held at PIT, this luxurious
late-night pansexual extravaganza featured a host of talented men and women
offering up all manner of naughty, brief scenes featuring everything from two
men lusting after each other in an ice cream shop to two women whose fetishes
for spanking and feet make them all wrong for each other.
The best moment came when a performer who looked like a grown-up Punky Brewster
did a perfectly Valley Girl-like stripper, proclaiming about a crush on a friend
when she was younger: “And then we played this game, and the game was
called sex.” At their afterparty, they not only had a delicious, anatomically
correct female cake, but one of the performers told me he got his nipple pierced
to commemorate the show. Aww.
I hope these dynamic actors will put on their show again. In the meantime,
you can check out Starlight’s free comedy night, “Hot Gays of Summer.” It’s
Ladies Night Sept. 1, with Rachel Feinstein and Maureen Langan, and your lovable
host, Keith Price. Every Wednesday, he serves up the hottest stars of the gay
comedy circuit. Come ready to laugh (and ready to be a part of the show).
The Camp Trans (camptrans.org) benefit at Tribeca hot-spot M-15, which has
hosted other sex positive events, proved a bust for this one. Double booked
with an ‘80s dance night, the politically-minded performers were largely
made to feel unwanted despite the fact that there were plenty of us there.
The timely event (the Michigan Womyn’s Musical Festival whose policies
it protests just happened) should have been an extravaganza of queer talent,
but we were mainly drowned out by the boorish crowd.
With the resurgence of interest in children’s author Judy Blume comes
a September play at Ars Nova by Maggie Moore entitled “Are You There,
God? It’s Me, Ann-Margret,” in which Blume’s most famous
character gets advice on womanhood from the naughty Hollywood star Ann-Margret.
Politically-minded folks will want to check out the Mass Panty Flash Protest
being organized by Axis of Eve (axisofeve.org) for Sept. 1, when over 100 “Eves” and “Adams” will
converge on Robert F. Wagner Park to “ a media spectacle to lay bare
the shameful tactics of the Bush Administration and demand an end to political
cover-up.”
These ladies make panties with slogans such as “My Cherry for Kerry,” “Lick
Bush,” “Cream Bush” and other Democratic double entendres.
With American flag skirts and underwear that says it all, they sound like they
have the most fun protest plan around!
Karen Finley’s back to inaugurate the new Collective: Unconscious with “George & Martha,” set
during a secret hotel rendezvous during the RNC. For girls who just want to
have fun, join Stephanie Adams (Goddessy.com) for free drinks and tarot readings
Saturdays at Spirit or Sundays at Suede; maybe you’ll find out who’ll
win the election!
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