Beauty
Jane Comfort and Company
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Beauty: Jane Comfort and Company
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK • Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa • Ongoing
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Beauty takes a gimlet-eyed look at the extremes women go to achieve impossible beauty. Jane Comfort’s company members don false eyelashes, sequins, and Spanx to compete in a nightly Barbie Beauty Contest judged by random audience members. Ditching Barbie drag, they examine the many beauty procedures available to us lesser creatures: liposuction, botox, plastic surgeries, etc., and those that aren’t: Photoshop, the digital magic that retouches every model we see in magazines.
Beauty invites men and women of all ages to consider how they perceive and project notions of female beauty in both benign and malevolent ways, consciously and subconsciously. Comfort was awarded a Guggenheim to create this work, which is performed in repertory with her Bessie Award-winning Underground River.
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Detailed schedule information:
7:30 pm
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Ellen Stewart Theatre at La MaMa
66 East 4th Street
(between 2nd Avenue and Bowery)
New York, NY
Tel: (1) 212 475 77 10
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