ruby fuerza: me first and the shimmy shimmies: Missed Encounters

Friday, April 18, 2008

Missed Encounters

Last night I went to see Rilo Kiley with the girls from Brazil but our Pakistani feast ran over and our cab got really lost. We arrived in time for the last half of the last song of the encore. Bummer. We pushed our way to the front to catch a glimpse of the band. Jenny Lewis looked absolutely lovely and the dudes (whatever their names are!) were cool. It was a good show but tame, judging from three minutes of it.

4 comments:

Daniela said...: Yes, we were a little too fashionably late. Our bad cabbie didn't help. But then we at least boogied for a bit at the Elbo Room with the SUPERHAPPY Djs and.... hey, where is that awful photo booth strip we took?? Do you have it? Erin?; April 18, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Unknown said...: my favorite part was the food and the cab rides. i love cab rides.; April 18, 2008 at 6:36 PM
Ruby Fuerza AKA Lucille Brawl said...: yea erin - where is that thang??; April 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM
Unknown said...: nuh uh i dont have it; April 20, 2008 at 9:52 PM

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PERFORMER BIO

The combustible Ruby Fuerza exploded out of the Bay Area burlesque scene in January of 2008 and has been regaling a diverse audience of punks, prisoners, and perverts with her sizzling – and silly - performances. Part Gilda Radner, part Emma Goldman, this brunette bombshell thrives on sexy satire and lustful hilarity with a politically conscious twist. As a dancer and choreographer, Miss Fuerza stokes her creative fires with fabulously original numbers that include colorful costumes, bizarre props, and irreverent comedy.

Miss Fuerza, AKA Lucille Brawl, was bred and raised in Morningside Heights in the heart of the exotic Isle of Manhattan. Born into the New York City mayhem of 1984, Ruby already had a flair for rebellion and glitter. She skipped school, shoplifted sunglasses and silk kimonos, read Das Kapital, and danced Violeta Parra protest songs in Spanish Harlem. She once got arrested for sneaking into a Lou Reed concert as an old man in a wheelchair. Throughout high school, she was a true fire-starter, protesting wars, sweatshops, and corporate greed. She organized youth brigades for anti-globalization demonstrations, coining guerilla chic in dark glasses and a face bandana.

At 18, she left the Big Apple to lead a dull, unsatisfying life at an Ivy League university she doesn’t like to talk about. She finished her degree in three years, and got the hell out of academia forever by 2006. She packed up her vintage sundresses, curling irons, and work boots, and headed south. With style and grace she worked alongside cafeteleros in Zapatistaland, Mexico. She marched with picketing telephone workers in Buenos Aires. She harvested yucca in solidarity with Cubanos in Havana. She waited around at a lot of airports (but never without lipstick).

After these travels, she landed a job as a union organizer in San Francisco and finally took her passion for theatrics and stage make-up to the big Bay stages, enrolling in Bombshell Betty’s School of Burlesque the day after she moved to San Francisco. In 2008, she began performing with the Burlesqueteer Troup and has been moving crowds to ribald ecstasy ever since. She has performed at Stage Werx Theater, Benders, Annie’s Social Club, and the Uptown Club in Oakland. She is world-renowned for her parodies of Carmen Miranda. Her Frida Kahlo act subtly engages in the politics of immigration. Her Bearded Lady act asks the audience to question its notion of gender. In her most recent performance, “Caketease,” she devised a homemade 4-foot cake for a steamy homage to cake strippers, diabetics, and anyone with a sweet tooth for Jerry Lee Lewis.

ruby fuerza: me first and the shimmy shimmies

Friday, April 18, 2008

Missed Encounters

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INTRODUCTION

LOVE LETTERS//HATE MAIL

DON'T DREAM IT//BE IT

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WORLD'S SMALLEST BURLESQUE CALENDAR