Rocky and Rhoda’s Lesbian Past Damien Luxe & Ariel Speedwagon

About This Show

Rocky & Rhoda (Ariel Speedwagon & Damien Luxe) are America’s longest-running, hardest-touring & most beloved lesbian performance duo. Rocky and Rhoda’s Lesbian Past is a vaudeville & theatre extravaganza featuring acrobatics, songs, maps, the queer art of genealogy, visits from friends, historical reenactments & very big questions about history, herstory & the legacies we inherit. Infighting! Conflict! Ancestry! Song! Dance! Rocky and Rhoda’s Lesbian Past has it all.

About the Artists

Damien Luxe is a multimedia artist who creates solo & troupe performance. She’s toured the US & Canada since 2004 with feminist live art work. She is co-founder of Heels on Wheels, a working-class-led, multi-racial queer femme performance troupe which produces an annual national literary & art tour & just released Glitter and Grit, an anthology of which Damien was an editor. Damien works as an archival catalog builder by day at Femmetech.  Weird videos, radical narratives, & a feminist, dystopic, science fiction novel can be found online.

Ariel “Speedwagon” Federow is an interdisciplinary performing artist, emcee & itinerant reporter. She’s worked with the Ballez, the AO Movement Collective, & Butch Burlesque among other. She’s choreographed genital puppets for dyke marches, done vaudeville about tenant’s rights & tap danced for liberation. Her own work & collaborations have been seen at LaMama ETC, Dixon Place, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Everybooty, Pussy Faggot & Hey Queen! Head reporter, Sarah Jenny News Network. 2012 Hemispheric Institute Affiliated Emerging Artist. Miss JewSA 5772. Bingo host. Clown about town.

Wednesday, Mar. 16 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$15 in advance
$18 at the door

Students / Seniors / id NYC
$12

Estimated Runtime
90 minutes

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Credits

Directed by
Rudy Ramirez

Photo Credit
Hannah Temple

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