What do you get when you combine theater, popular music, drag culture, Elizabethan fool, activism, and history? Taylor Mac!
Taylor is a theater artist with a powerful presence, heavily invested in queer and feminist performance, and interested in mining feminism, gender, race, sexuality, and queer identity through a project called “A 24-Decade History of American Popular Music“. Also, it’s one of few shows on U-M campus that challenges the gender binary (man/woman). Taylor, who uses the pronoun “judy,” will be doing two performances of the 1956-1986 era from “A 24-Decade History of American Popular Music.”
It’s hard to describe judy and judy’s work without visuals. Here are a few:
(Yup, that’s me talking. I got to work with Taylor Mac over the summer, for an internship with UMS and SMTD. Here’s my story.)
The shows will be on this Friday and Saturday, February 5-6, at 8pm. It will be at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater inside Michigan League — the lobby of which is being decorated by Machine Dazzle, artist who has done extensive work on installation art and also the costume designer for Taylor! (I got a sneak peek of it; it looks freaking awesome. It’s hard to miss.)
Tickets are sold online at UMS’s website, or you can buy them in person at the Michigan League Ticket Office. Just like other UMS shows, students tickets are as cheap as $12!
Are you still there? For more fabulous interviews, check out the following videos too.
Let’s hear from performers themselves:
…And finally, directly from Taylor:
I hope you can make it. You might find me in costumes doing dandy things for Taylor those nights. 😛
