Posts tagged: trans-form
Comments (0) Trans Form clip number one
By Rebecca, January 4, 2010 12:25 am
I finally finished editing the first bit of Trans Form (and figuring out good settings to export it, which took almost as long). Enjoy!
My show is done!
By Rebecca, December 15, 2009 10:14 am
I know that’s kind of all I’ve been blathering about the past week or so, but I really can’t believe it. The show went really well – I’d budgeted about 60 people coming over all three nights, and Sunday alone (closing night) we had 69 people. They were packed in, but we fit ‘em. (The box office manager told me, “We never see this big of an audience for an unknown solo performance. Maybe for well-established ensemble companies, but not for a one-woman show.” Which just goes to show how badass my friends and family are!)
All three shows were filmed, and I plan to have video up by the end of the year. (Fingers crossed.)
Interview with Windy City Times
By Rebecca, December 11, 2009 12:22 am
I sat down with Sarah Terez Rosenblum a few weeks ago for an interview that was just posted at the Windy City Times website, a Chicago-area LGBT newspaper.
Eloquent and animated, performer Rebecca Kling clearly enjoys discussing her work. “Trans Form combines spoken word and multimedia,” she says, sipping tea at Starbucks, “it’s the second show I’ve written outside of school.” Chatting about Trans Form’s inspiration, as well as theater as a vehicle for social change, Rebecca’s passion for theater grows increasingly evident; it’s creation surely integral to her sense of self.Windy City Times: What was the impetus for your new show?
Rebecca Kling: Trans Form came out of the work I did at the Charged Bodies Mentorship Program, which itself came out of a weeklong workshop at Links Hall where I sort of stumbled on the idea of transitioning as this mythic process of defying gods and defying fate and defying convention. When I was fortunate enough to get the Critical Fierceness Grant through Chances Dances in Chicago this past year to expand the piece, I realized I wanted to delve into the mundane or the personal or the everyday, keeping components of the piece I worked on last year, but also expanding upon it and trying to process where I’m coming from, where I’m going and what the hell I’m doing.
Trans Form in Time Out Chicago
By Rebecca, December 10, 2009 2:53 am
From this week’s Time Out Chicago:
Last year, trans performance artist Rebecca Kling told us it was a struggle figuring out how to present herself on stage. You wouldn’t think so if you caught her assured cameo at this summer’s Homo Show in Wicker Park. With the help of a Chances Dances Critical Fierceness Grant, Trans Form, her first full solo show, happens Friday 11–Sunday 13 at Links Hall. Using video, dance and candid confession, Kling explores her life as a transgender woman in Chicago. With her raw honesty and graceful body movements, we can only say of Kling, what a difference a year makes.
(And no, I’m not posting this at 3AM after getting home from tech. I don’t know what you’re talking about.)
Trans Form in the press!
By Rebecca, December 9, 2009 6:54 pm
Getting excited for the opening this Friday!
From Newcity:
RECOMMENDED
Rebecca Kling’s solo performance employs storytelling, video and theatrical movement to relate her experiences as a transgender woman… Trans Form peels back the trans label and its mystique to probe the complications of human identity…. With good nature and gentle humor the five-minute monologue [about changing her name] not only riffs on the frustrations of living in a bureaucratic system, but also gives one pause to consider the blurred line between private life and public identity. It plays out like a Kafka short story that ends in triumph. (Sharon Hoyer)
Trans Form this weekend!
By Rebecca, December 8, 2009 11:37 am
If you’re in the Chicago area, come see my one-woman show, Trans Form, this weekend!
Rooted in the work created during her participation in Links Hall’s 2008 Charged Bodies Mentorship Program, Rebecca Kling presents Trans Form, an evening of solo performance exploring her life as a transgender woman in chicago. This multimedia piece – composed of storytelling, video, movement, playful skips and jumps, enlightening self-discovery, accusatory glances, awkward pauses, and more – is perfect for anybody who thinks they have gender all figured out, and for the rest of us who don’t.
Tickets are $15, or $10 with the code ‘masked.’ Hope to see you there!
See me perform on Nov 21!
By Rebecca, November 14, 2009 12:54 pm
I’m getting more and more excited (and more and more terrified!) as Trans Form draws near… Opening night is on Friday, December 11, and I hope to see you all there.
In the meantime, I wanted to invite all of you to see a piece from Trans Form at 7PM, Saturday, November 21, at Center on Halsted, as part of Night of Fallen Stars. From the Center on Halsted press release:
The evening celebrates and unites Chicago’s transgender community, while remembering the lives lost in gender-focused hate crimes. Transgender artists will perform music, dance, comedy, and poetry. Special appearance by Jaila Simms, the first Transgendered artist to win a reality series MTV/P. Diddy’s “Making His Band” Official member of Bad Boy’s “Dirty Money Crew.”
The event always has an interesting and entertaining mix of performers, and I’m proud to count myself among this years’ bunch.
If you won’t be able to make it to Night of Fallen Stars, you can still make it to Trans Form! Tickets are on sale now – more information, including discount codes, is available at http://fridaythang.com/trans-form
Trans Form
By Rebecca, August 7, 2009 10:17 am
That’s the working title of the piece I’ll be putting up this December, an expansion of Ares and Aphrodite (video here and here). I’m currently a little overwhelmed (by it, by prepping for a work-in-progress showing in a few weeks, by my ‘real’ job, by family, and on, and on) but a bunch of work stuff gets finished this week so hopefully after the too-busy weekend I’ll be able to catch my breath.
Here’s a draft of the front of the postcard I’m working on with a graphic designer:
It was inspired by the Ares and Aphrodite wordle I posted a while back, and I think I like the general concept. It needs a bit of work (and I’d love any feedback from y’all!) but I’m pretty sure it’s a workable idea.
I’m in such a bipolar mood about this performance, though: Something (like the postcard) will make me super-excited, but then I’ll get overwhelmed with all the work and feel like it’s just too much. I know that’s not true, but still…
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