COWBOYSCOWGIRLS
An interactive performance that explores and explodes the myth of the American Cowboy, looking with humor at how chauvinism and bravado transpose into Gay subculture. Featuring performance artists & choreographers Daniel Diaz and Beth Graczyk. Music by Marisa Tornello. cowboy/cowgirls Fleur Voorn, Mike Cotayo & Mac Smith! Guest appearance by artist and activist Agosto Machado who shares experiences about Stonewall, Sylvia Rivera, and The Gay Liberation Movement. Hao Bai (sound/ video). Dmitri Barcomi (SM). Jon Burklund (cinematographer). Natalie Marissa Johnson (AD). Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte (writer/ director). Laura-Marie Marciano (poetry). Zoie Omega (cinematographer). Brendan Reilly (sound). Mark Tambella (tent design). Philip Treviño (lighting /environment designer).
COWBOYSCOWGIRLS premiere at JACK in 2018. Works-in-progress at Time Space Limited (Hudson NY); BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance; The LGBT Center (NY); The Wild Project; The Tank (2018-19). Toured to Buddies in Bad Time (Toronto) in 2019.