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GO-GO
GIRLS SEIZE CONTROL - WOW Festival,
NYC (1981)
Photo Credit: Mariette Pathy-Allen Setting: A Go-Go Bar in Passaic, New Jersey |
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| In a sharp role reversal, the go-go bar clients are represented by one dimensional figures that signify "silent decor". The dancers, by contrast, are the ones who talk and have opinions. |
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I create an illusion of 50's glamor, dancing to Sinatra's "New York, New York". Beneath the facade of making it in New York, are the terms by which making it as a "glamorous" dancer in a go-go bar are possible. A strip-tease disposes of "the glamor" and unsuspectedly reveals a Scottish nationalist warrior dancing to the Jacobite song, "Such a Parcel of Rogues In this performance I paralleled the colonization of Scotland with the colonization of women's sexuality. I think only two Scottish girlfriends in the audience laughed and understood. The rest of the audience were puzzled but entertained..... |
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| Rebecca
Furious reveals her true identity - a Chilean emigre working without a green card. As she dances, titillating the clients with her chain,she says what is on her mind but never revealed - her anxiety about the molesting of her younger sister by her white schoolmates. This anxiety gives her performance an adrenaline rush that drives the men crazy. |
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