Please join Pretzel Cage for their new performance work ‘Diseases of Canaries’ which speaks to the autobiographical story of ‘The Bird Man of Alcatraz’.
Exploring and exposing themes of care and confinement, transgression and transformation, adversity and desire, solitude and vice. Through their ongoing practice of utilising heavily mixed edits and soundtracking, projected moving imagery, text, sculpture, costume and physicality. Merging elements of drag artistry, live art and characterisation. Creating escapist, abstract, surreal and provocative narratives and scenes.
About Pretzel:
Pretzel Cage is a multi media, genre blending, shape shifting, alternative Drag and Live Art performer. Their work is provocative, surreal, elegant and disturbing with their keen interest in transposing the discomfort, beauty and hysteria of existence through a collision of sound, movement and imagery.
Their performances explore identity, systems and constructs, regression and transformation through the use of movement, lip syncing, live vocals and sound scores of samples, mixes and compositions to a backdrop and integration of projected video work.
Pretzel is also a resident performer for touring company Queer Cuntry and has performed at The Divine, Southbank Centre, Dreamland, The Posh Club and Royal Festival Hall, River Stage.
Time:
Doors: 7:30pm
Performance: 8:00pm
ACCESS:
The performance is seated.
Sadly, The Divine is currently not fully accessible.
The cabaret and club space are in the basement of the venue. There
are 17 wide steps with slip resistant treads down to the space with
sturdy handrails either side.
The toilets are in the basement and are not accessible for wheelchair
users.
If you need further information, please refer to The Divine ‘About’
page on the website. www.thedivine.co.uk
Sensory information:
The performance is seated.
The seated area will be dark.
Different genres and styles of loud music will play throughout the performance, including classical, ambient, show tunes, electronic, vocal audio, live vocals.
There will be projected imagery that is constantly moving
At times there will be flashing and strobing lights for small durations of time