// BUZZCUT// presents Glaswegian queer performance artist Katy Baird’s latest show Get Off, performed in Glasgow for the first time. Plus new work from Glasgow-based artists Althea Young and Kirstin Halliday!
An evening of absurdly funny, existentially unsettling, and strangely sensuous works of experimental theatre for one night only this April!
// GET OFF //
An absurdly funny, confronting, and raw exploration of ageing, desire, and disgust…
“The average life expectancy of a woman in London is 83 years old. The average life expectancy of a woman in Glasgow is 78 years old. This means, when I go home to visit my mum next month, I’ll be 5 years closer to my death…”
A self-proclaimed hedonist Katy Baird has spent the last decade documenting her pursuit of pleasure. Attempting to understand what she does with her time, and what she’s going to do with the time she has left.
Through humour and an existential haze of home videos, last night’s gabber, and sessions with her life coach – Get Off offers an unfiltered glimpse into our human need for distraction; exploring the depths of our desires and what truly gets us off.
Katy Baird is an artist who frequently finds herself in bizarre situations of her own making. Her practice is centered around a desire to create a shared space that can be both welcoming and radical. She has performed at Live Art festivals and venues across the UK and internationally as well as squat parties, clubs and raves. Katy proudly identifies as an ‘old, queer, fat, femme deviant’ and is currently based in Hastings, East Sussex.
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“GET OFF will make you squirm, cringe, and laugh out loud like never before” - Eva Mateos Rodriguez, Abundant Art
“Messy, anarchic and very funny” ★★★★ The Stage
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Althea Young presents The Dreaming
As dreams of babies invade the waking world of Althea Young, she struggles to understand not only what she wants, but why?
A work of auto-fictional performance, this work-in-progress flicks through dream-worlds consisting of lyrical text, responsive sound, and visceral choreography. In a complex interrogation of reproductive desire and resistance.
As she explores her own ambivalence to parenthood within our state of perma-crisis, she must ask; What makes our lives meaningful? What are we willing to sacrifice? And what is it all for?
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Kirstin Halliday debuts a new work blending nature documentary with choreographed movement: Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards: Act 1, Scene 1, + Teaser
Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards are an all-female species that live in the deserts of New Mexico. Notably, they reproduce without fertilisation, but still stimulate each other to bring on ovulation. Near the laying period, one lizard will mount another. This has earned the species the reputation of “lesbian lizards.”
Dance Artist Kirstin Halliday’s Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards: Act 1, Scene 1, Plus Teaser is an extract from a new work in progress dance-drama, that reimagines this species as an all-lesbian fantasy world.
Co-choreographed by Aniela Piasecka and combining absurdist choreography with documentary style storytelling, Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards will culminate in a body of work exploring the fetishization of lesbians and the active reconfiguration of the cisheteronormative male gaze.
Creative Credits: Director + Choreographer: Kirstin Halliday / Co-choreographer: Aniela Piasecka / Producer: Amy Lawrence / Costume and Make-up: Sgàire Wood / Sound: Char Bickley / Set: Molly M. Whawell / Dance Dramaturge: Emma Lewis-Jones / Mentorship: Eve Stainton and Lucy Suggate / PR Associate: Joy Parkinson.
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