A queer performance new wave in Sydney: Inside'cLUB bENT'1995-1998-exploring hybridity and community

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Title A queer performance new wave in Sydney: Inside'cLUB bENT'1995-1998-exploring hybridity and community
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Abstract/Description Every night of the first season of 'cLUB bENT' was a spectacular performance event. Taking place at The Performance Space, Redfern, during Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) festival 1995, 'cLUB bENT' represented a defining moment in 1990s queer performance, exploring identity, new and old performance forms, gender diversity, abject sexuality and sex positivism. 'cLUB bENT' also became a site where performance forms and 'elements' - which I define as creative tropes, gestures and performance languages which might recur in identical yet random ways in later works - were hybridised over time and new reference points for content and form were created among a broad community of performers and activists.
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Publisher Australasian Drama Studies
Volume 81
Page 98-126
Date Issued 1 October 2022
Language English
Citation Catherine Fargher, A queer performance new wave in Sydney: Inside'cLUB bENT'1995-1998-exploring hybridity and community, Australasian Drama Studies, 81, 1 October 2022, 98-126
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Resource Identifier 79367