MARIA TOILETTE
THE MOREKEYS DE SCHADE
VADGE
THE COMPOSER
THE DESIGNER
ALSO KNOWN AS:
GUTTER OPERA COLLECTIVE
GUTTER OPERA COLLECTIVE
A Developing Practice of Queer Performance
We are an emerging interdisciplinary / performance art / gender performance collective. Focused on work reflecting and revealing the experiences the LGBTT2Q communities, we are building a reputation in Vancouver and across the country for pushing the boundaries of gender, taste and art.
Growing out of a Vancouver Queer Film Festival commission (Reflection / Refraction 2011), and working intensively on new touring projects since Feb 2014, our collective goals and artistic objectives are:
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to provide a living reflection of the Queer communities through performance and interaction;
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to bring taboo subjects into the light, specifically, to bring the sex back into homosexuality in a direct, visceral, inviting, and entertaining manner, and;
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to explore new forms of personal connection through music, gender performance, theatre, and social media; and to tell Queer stories in a way that deeply subverts colonial artistic practice.
The individuals in this collective have, for the most part, a practice grounded in the western classical music tradition, but encompassing a wide variety of artistic interests and expertise: