Theater-makers Mimi Lien, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Basil Twist were among the 24 2015 MacArthur Fellowship, or “genius grant,” recipients announced Sept. 29, by the MacArthur Foundation. Each of these exemplary talents is due to receive a “no-strings-attached” $625,000 grant to continue creating and showcasing their work. Tony winner Miranda has been enrapturing sold-out audiences of late with the premiere of his hit Broadway musical, “Hamilton,” in which he stars; in addition, he wrote the book, music, and lyrics. As he did with 2008’s Tony-winning “In The Heights,” Miranda expands the Broadway genre, telling the story of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton and infusing it with the American immigrant narrative—mixing in hip-hop, R&B, jazz, blues, and classic showtune-style songs for good measure. Puppeteer Basil Twist is an already established name in the arts, known for his breathtaking underwater puppet show, 1998’s “Symphonie Fantastique.” His work can next be seen alongside legendary downtown performers Julie Atlas Muz...
- 9/29/2015
- backstage.com
by Vic Schiavone
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Hosts Nasty Neal and Annabelle Lecter welcomed actor, drummer, and performance artist Mat Fraser. Mat is best known for his role as Paul the Illustrated Seal on the fourth season of the FX horror anthology TV series “American Horror Story”, which was entitled “American Horror Story: Freak Show”.
Highlights included the following:
• Wyh: How did you end up on “American Horror Story”? Is it something you sought out or did they find you?
Mf: “I had heard about it, but my agent in Britain had been unable to secure me an audition, which I was rather disappointed about, and I put the whole thing in the back of my head and forgot about it. Then, I was doing a show with my wife, Julie Atlas Muz. We were doing an adult version of “Beauty and the Beast”, which smashed it and got rave reviews...
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Hosts Nasty Neal and Annabelle Lecter welcomed actor, drummer, and performance artist Mat Fraser. Mat is best known for his role as Paul the Illustrated Seal on the fourth season of the FX horror anthology TV series “American Horror Story”, which was entitled “American Horror Story: Freak Show”.
Highlights included the following:
• Wyh: How did you end up on “American Horror Story”? Is it something you sought out or did they find you?
Mf: “I had heard about it, but my agent in Britain had been unable to secure me an audition, which I was rather disappointed about, and I put the whole thing in the back of my head and forgot about it. Then, I was doing a show with my wife, Julie Atlas Muz. We were doing an adult version of “Beauty and the Beast”, which smashed it and got rave reviews...
- 3/21/2015
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Mat Fraser’s a remarkable person. Not due to or in spite of his disability — the 52-year-old actor/artist/musician was born with phocomelia, resulting in foreshortened arms — but because over the course of a 30-plus-year creative career, he has played drums in groundbreaking bands, been featured in the famed Coney Island Circus Sideshow, launched daring theatrical pieces with his burlesque-icon wife Julie Atlas Muz, appeared in a range of TV and film work, and been a consistently vocal advocate for the rights of persons and performers with disabilities. But to millions of Americans, he’s first come into view as Paul “The Illustrated Seal Boy” on American Horror Story: Freak Show, whose penultimate episode airs tonight. And Fraser’s okay with that, even if it’s a bit jarring to finally have “people coming up to me, goin', ‘Are you Mat Fraser?’ not, ‘Are you the bloke with the...
- 1/14/2015
- by Kenny Herzog
- Vulture
A touching love story is at the heart of this documentary about burlesque
Positivity about alternative body images oozes from this goodheartedly explicit documentary in which articulate burlesque performers discuss the transformative power of transgressing the boundaries of gender, performance and taste. At the heart of the often gaudy cabaret is the tender and touching love story of Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz, whose in-bed interviews offer an insightful counterpoint to their confrontational stage acts – performed both together and alone. Those in search of safely exploitative titillation will be both disappointed and surprised; whatever their gender, it's the performers who wear the trousers.
Rating: 3/5
BurlesqueDocumentaryMark Kermode
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Positivity about alternative body images oozes from this goodheartedly explicit documentary in which articulate burlesque performers discuss the transformative power of transgressing the boundaries of gender, performance and taste. At the heart of the often gaudy cabaret is the tender and touching love story of Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz, whose in-bed interviews offer an insightful counterpoint to their confrontational stage acts – performed both together and alone. Those in search of safely exploitative titillation will be both disappointed and surprised; whatever their gender, it's the performers who wear the trousers.
Rating: 3/5
BurlesqueDocumentaryMark Kermode
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- 1/12/2014
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
by Steve Dollar
Everyone's favorite French leading man, Mathieu Amalric, won the best director prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Tournée (also known as On Tour), an ambling backstage saga about an American burlesque troupe on the road in France, playing the creaky-theater circuit in a string of port towns as their manager Joachim (Amalric) sorts out his own personal drama. Many of the performers will be familiar to fans of the latter-day burlesque revival: Julie Atlas Muz, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini, Mimi Le Meaux. They'll join Amalric for a screening and party as part of the third annual BAMcinemaFest's closing weekend. Earlier this week, Amalric spoke about his profound fascination with the ecdysiasts' art from Toronto, where he'd just arrived to begin shooting in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.
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Everyone's favorite French leading man, Mathieu Amalric, won the best director prize at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Tournée (also known as On Tour), an ambling backstage saga about an American burlesque troupe on the road in France, playing the creaky-theater circuit in a string of port towns as their manager Joachim (Amalric) sorts out his own personal drama. Many of the performers will be familiar to fans of the latter-day burlesque revival: Julie Atlas Muz, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini, Mimi Le Meaux. They'll join Amalric for a screening and party as part of the third annual BAMcinemaFest's closing weekend. Earlier this week, Amalric spoke about his profound fascination with the ecdysiasts' art from Toronto, where he'd just arrived to begin shooting in David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.
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- 6/24/2011
- GreenCine Daily
Here's what Julie Atlas Muz who stars in Mathieu Amalric's burlesque film Tournée wore to the Césars (aka the French Oscars) yesterday.
poll by twiigs.com
How much would you pay to see the uproar at the Oscars if some attendee wore something like that?
Celebrities just don't take enough chances on the red carpet. Like the chance to be arrested for indecent exposure. Live a little movie stars. Come on. No more simple black gowns. We better see something crazy tomorrow night. Who can save us from the boring fashion parade to come?
.p.s. catch up on Oscar posts if you've been slacking!
poll by twiigs.com
How much would you pay to see the uproar at the Oscars if some attendee wore something like that?
Celebrities just don't take enough chances on the red carpet. Like the chance to be arrested for indecent exposure. Live a little movie stars. Come on. No more simple black gowns. We better see something crazy tomorrow night. Who can save us from the boring fashion parade to come?
.p.s. catch up on Oscar posts if you've been slacking!
- 2/26/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A new breed of performers has transformed burlesque – is it now performance art? By Ben Walters
It's a cold December night but inside the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club in east London, things are hotting up. A capacity crowd – more women than men, some in retro-style fur, houndstooth and animal prints – has turned out for the final of this year's Tournament of Tease, an amateur contest that has become an institution on London's burlesque scene.
"I come for the tassles!" says Arthur, a 25-year-old financial trader and burlesque regular, who has dragged three wary colleagues along. "It's very creative," he hastily adds. "Anyone can join in." When I ask if he's also been to strip clubs, he wrinkles his nose. "Sure, but that has nothing to do with this. There, it's a business thing – the girls do it for the money. Here, no one does it for the money." Does he find it hot?...
It's a cold December night but inside the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club in east London, things are hotting up. A capacity crowd – more women than men, some in retro-style fur, houndstooth and animal prints – has turned out for the final of this year's Tournament of Tease, an amateur contest that has become an institution on London's burlesque scene.
"I come for the tassles!" says Arthur, a 25-year-old financial trader and burlesque regular, who has dragged three wary colleagues along. "It's very creative," he hastily adds. "Anyone can join in." When I ask if he's also been to strip clubs, he wrinkles his nose. "Sure, but that has nothing to do with this. There, it's a business thing – the girls do it for the money. Here, no one does it for the money." Does he find it hot?...
- 12/14/2010
- by Ben Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
I must admit that Mathieu Almaric’s Tournee largely sneaked under my radar prior to my arrival at the festival this week, but would most probably have made it on to my Highlights article in the run-up had I been more aware of it. You see, not only am I a huge admirer of Almaric as an actor: he was exceptional in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and was one of the only highlights of Quantum of Solace (the most ridiculous extended chase movie I have ever watched), I am also an avid fan of the wonderful artistic movement that is burlesque. So to have both on show in one feature, screening In Competition on the Croisette was understandably manna from heaven for the likes of me.
For anyone else who missed the official synopsis, it reads, deliciously, as follows:
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind- his children,...
For anyone else who missed the official synopsis, it reads, deliciously, as follows:
Joachim, a former Parisian television producer had left everything behind- his children,...
- 5/15/2010
- by Simon Gallagher
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tournée's burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz has commented on the differences between performing on screen and stage. The dancer explained at a Cannes press conference that working on a film lacks the immediate feedback of performing in front of an audience. "The timing of my performance versus the timing of film is very different," she said. "So when you perform live you get a unique satisfaction through applause from the audience. However, being on film that satisfaction or the exchange that you feel as a performer is delayed, if it even happens at all. So I found that a challenging distinction but I'm willing to do it again." Muz's co-star Dirty Martini stated that she has (more)...
- 5/14/2010
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
The stars of Tournée have voiced their delight at having their movie selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival. Directed by acclaimed actor Mathieu Amalric, it centres on a group of real-life American New Burlesque dancers touring France and is one of the 19 films competing for the Palme d'Or prize. Speaking at the film's Cannes press conference, troupe member Julie Atlas Muz said that she was "honoured" to be attending the festival to support her film. Co-star Mimi Le Meaux added that she left her home (more)...
- 5/13/2010
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Miranda Colclasure in Tournee My introduction to Mathieu Amalric came with his fantastic performance as Jean-Dominique Bauby in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly in 2007. My relationship with him as an actor continued with A Christmas Tale and Quantum of Solace, but I had never seen one of his directorial projects. Come to learn, Amalric served as a trainee assistant director on Louis Malle's excellent 1988 Oscar-nominated Au revoir les enfants and directed his first feature film in 1997, Mange ta soupe.
Therefore I see the Cannes Competition entry Tournee (On Tour) as a second introduction to Amalric, and while the film didn't bowl me over there is an undeniable playful and inviting quality to it -- primarily to its characters. Tournee opens itself up to the audience through a group of fascinating players in a "new" burlesque troupe led by Joachim Zand (Amalric), a staunch former Parisian television producer that...
Therefore I see the Cannes Competition entry Tournee (On Tour) as a second introduction to Amalric, and while the film didn't bowl me over there is an undeniable playful and inviting quality to it -- primarily to its characters. Tournee opens itself up to the audience through a group of fascinating players in a "new" burlesque troupe led by Joachim Zand (Amalric), a staunch former Parisian television producer that...
- 5/13/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
March 29
7:30 p.m.
Siff Cinema
321 Mercer Street
Seattle, Wa 98109
Hosted by: Moisture Festival
The Moisture Festival, Seattle’s springtime celebration of burlesque, veritè and comedy, teams up with the Seattle International Festival to bring audiences the vivacious new documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, directed by Gary Beeber. Not only will director Beeber be in attendance, but so will the star of the film: Dirty Martini herself, who will put on a live burlesque show for the audience!
The fabulous Miss Martini is one of the lead figures heading up the New Burlesque scene that has been teasing and titillating New York City with its fusion of performance art, political satire and sex-positive feminism. Beeber takes viewers directly into this exciting new subculture and gets up close and personal with several performers in addition to the titular Martini, such as Julie Atlas Muz, World-Famous *Bob*, Bambi the Mermaid,...
7:30 p.m.
Siff Cinema
321 Mercer Street
Seattle, Wa 98109
Hosted by: Moisture Festival
The Moisture Festival, Seattle’s springtime celebration of burlesque, veritè and comedy, teams up with the Seattle International Festival to bring audiences the vivacious new documentary Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, directed by Gary Beeber. Not only will director Beeber be in attendance, but so will the star of the film: Dirty Martini herself, who will put on a live burlesque show for the audience!
The fabulous Miss Martini is one of the lead figures heading up the New Burlesque scene that has been teasing and titillating New York City with its fusion of performance art, political satire and sex-positive feminism. Beeber takes viewers directly into this exciting new subculture and gets up close and personal with several performers in addition to the titular Martini, such as Julie Atlas Muz, World-Famous *Bob*, Bambi the Mermaid,...
- 3/27/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
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