Empress Stah Floating in Zero Gravity

Ok so it is not the over arching grace of Deep Space ... More like crashing around in the confines of a tin can (read: Space Ship) ... but none the less here it is !!

SUPPER CRAZY - Crazy Horse, Paris hooks up with Supper Club, London

Last night was the launch of SUPPER CRAZY, the newest and hottest cabaret in town and of course I was on hand to dazzle the celebrity crowd with my gravity defying aerial performance.

SUPPER CRAZY is the combination of The Crazy Horse Revue from Paris and the very best of Supper Club London's artistes, which is where I come in.


The Crazy Horse describes itself as thus -  "Since  1951,  the most  avant-garde cabaret in  Paris celebrates the beauty, raw talent and personality of the sensual dancers in an unimitable, sophisticated and glamourous way".


I saw the Crazy Horse show in Paris on my birthday in 2009 as the guest of Dita Von Teese, who has presented her beautifully crafted performances there on a few different occasions.  


My fabulous costume was made by the wonderful CLAIRE AHSLEY

I made it onto the pages of VOGUE

and the pages of  ELLE

FLOATING IN ZERO GRAVITY !!!

I Did It .... I Did It !!!!

Thank you to everyone who supported my Crowd Funding Campaign to go to Space !!
I am now one step closer to getting there .... having actually experienced weightlessness : )
I describe my experience as thus

Fun, Fun, Fun, hilarious, amazing, incredulous, disorientating, awe inspiring, mind blowing, mildly nauseating, levitating, flying, floating, crashing, spinning, twirling, giggling, laughing, FUN !!!


To see Gallery of Pictures CLICK HERE

RED ROOM CABARET - ZAGREB, CROATIA

The International all Star Cast once again descended on Zagreb to perform 3 nights of pure, unadulterated cabaret excess to full houses and rave reviews !!!

“Interesting, provocative, fun” (News from Culture, Croatian Television)

“Spectacular” (Objektiv magazine)
“Red Room Cabaret has brought top world performers to Zagreb” (24sata Television)

“Another impressive Red Room was filled out with thunderous ovations and shouts of enthusiasm. (...) This miraculous night will be talked about for a long time…” (Vecernji.hr)

“Because of them you will be seeing the world with different eyes” (net.hr)

“For two hours we have been riveted by a cycle of small performative miracles” (H-alter.org)

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FUTURE PERFORMANCES CLICK HERE

THE CHAMPAGNE CIRCUS @ HELSINKI, FINLAND

The Champagne Circus is a brand new event currently showing in Helsinki, Finland !!
Produced and curated by Missy Macabre and The Baron.
This has been and gone but check Here for upcoming events.

PLAN B - The Human Canon Ball !!

If I can't get a Space Ship then I figured maybe you could fire me into the Stars !!

This photo was taken spontaneously on 'The Island', Helsinki, Finland while on tour with Missy Macgre, Baawo and Ophelia Bitz !!

The First Star of My new Galaxy !!

Mad Alan tattooed this Star on my heel - he donated £250 to my Crowd Funding campaign to send me to into Space !!

'SAVE EMPRESS STAH FROM A LIFE OF VICE'

Empress Stah as 'The Starship Trooper' in the Red Light District, Amsterdam !!

"We are all living in the Stars, but some of us are looking back at the Gutter" - Empress Stah

Send Empress Stah to Space ... Donate today from £10

www.EmpressStah.com

RED ROOM CABARET - Zagreb, Croatia

After our triumphant sell out performance in 2010 ... We are back for 3 nights with another stellar line up of internationally acclaimed performers to entertain you like you've never been entertained before.

Click HERE for more information and to buy tickets

PLATFORM FOR CHANGE - 'ART BEGGING' VIDEO

To Support my Fundraising quest to go to Space I made this little video with Shae Vulgaris .... It is Hilarious !!

Watch it ... have a laugh ..... be inspired .... Donate to the Cause by clicking the Widget Above !!

SEND EMPRESS STAH BACK TO SPACE !!

CLICK ON THE LOGO ABOVE TO TAKE YOU TO THE CROWD FUNDING PAGE !!

THERE YOU WILL FIND VIDEOS, PICTURES, INFORMATION AND REWARDS !!

* Find out more about the Birth of 'Stah-Lite'

* Watch the brand new aerial video 'Stah Ship Trooper'

* Learn about other Arts, Humanities and Culture in Space Projects

* Buy tickets for FREEFALL!  in San Francisco

* Click the DONATE button and become a Star in Empress Stah's Constellation !!

The Premier of Western Australia and Me !!

This article was run in the West Australian newspaper 1st March 2011

Colin Barnett may be State's supreme leader but he appeared to have met his match in Empress Stah, the ruler of the decadent underworld of burlesque performers.

In keeping with the adage that opposites attract, the Premier and the showgirl joined up at the weekend to mark the close of Perth's first fringe arts festival for many years.

The London-based Stah said it was 12 years to the day since she had been in Perth and it was nice of Mr Barnett to pop in to mark her anniversary.

Over the past three weeks, more than 20,000 people have crammed into the century-old Pearl Spiegeltent to see more than 150 performances at the Fringe World precinct in the new-look Urban Orchard in the Perth Cultural Centre.

Fringe World director Marcus Canning attributed much of the fringe's popularity to the atmosphere of the Spiegeltent, one of only a handful in the world.

Mr Barnett and Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi unveiled a plaque to mark the tent's purchase from Belgium for the people of WA with plans to take it to other events around the State later in the year. Lotterywest funded the $360,000 purchase through alternative arts producer Artrage.

"This will obviously tour regional centres and I hope it gets a lot of use," Mr Barnett said.

The fringe's success reflected the growing diversity of events in Perth to match the physical changes such as the sinking of the railway line and the waterfront redevelopment, he said.

His message to people who still used the "Dullsville" label was: "Open your eyes and see what's going on and take part."

Ms Scaffidi, who saw a fringe show at the start of the festival, said she loved the vibe of the Spiegeltent.

"Its design is so intricate and sophisticated and decadent," she said "The way it slots so perfectly into the Urban Orchard is like it was always meant to be here in Perth."

The Spiegeltent will be the hub of an expanded fringe festival to include venues throughout the city next February.

The Danish Theatre Journal - Warehouse 9 !!!

In November / December 2010 I performed at 'Warehouse 9' in Copenhagen, Denmark, a picture of my performance ended up on the front page of the Danish Theatre Journal - Teater 1.

'Warehouse 9' is run by the inimitable Miss Fish and Christian 'The Gentleman'. They ran a 3 part series of performances based around Neo/New/No Burlesque, funded by the Danish Arts Council. I starred in the show Neo Burlesque alongside Narcisister from NYC. The New Burlesque show was headlined by Dirty Martini and the No Burlesque by David Hoyle.

MONA - The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania

"In 2011 evolution will become revolution when the Museum of Old and New Art unveils its radical artistic and cultural agenda" - Moorilla 

MONANISM is the name of the opening exhibition and in the program is explained as this 

monanism  [moh-nuh-niz-uhm]

-noun

1. obsessive characterised by an inability to discriminate between normative public behaviour and display of immorality and alternating self-loathing and egoism.

2. a behavioural  disorder which, when observed by a representative member of a population (esp. Australian), elicits the epithet "wanker"

Origin:

            2010; by prothesis from onanism

The hotly anticipated opening of MONA happened on the 21.01.2011 and yours truly was there to add a smattering of glitter and fabulousness to the celebrations !! I performed my aerial show 'Roses are Dead' and of course 'A Gold Star' - with the 'Diamond Pussy' and the 'Bum Balloon. I was enlisted to perform at this event by the museum's director Mark Fraser who was headhunted for the job from Sotheby's and Brian Ritchie from The Violent Femmes.

MONA stands for The Museum of Old and New Art, affectionately known as The Museum of Sex and Death, which along with Taboo are amongst the favourite themes of millionaire owner David Walsh.

Now I know nothing at all about art or art history as my education was maths and science based so I am not even going to begin to tell you about the actual pieces being exhibited, rather I will shed some light on the thinking and reality of the whole project, as I understand it.

David Walsh is diagnosed with mild Asperges syndrome and is a mathematical genius, the locals refer to him as Rainman. He has a photographic memory and wins tens of millions of dollars a year playing Poker and takes home 40% of the TAB's annual profits by winning on the dogs and horse races using algorithms that he has devised - so he makes his money by gambling. All of the art in MONA is from his private collection.

The grounds that MONA has been built on is the Moorilla Winery Estate that the David Walsh Group bought in the 1990's on a headland along the Derwent River.  So now we have not only Sex, Death and Gambling and Taboo but we can add Booze to the equation : ) This might be a good place to note that I have not had a more drunk and enthusiastic audience in my whole career as I did at the VIP party on opening night, apparently they had been plied with absinth since 4pm. There is also a fully stocked bar built into the museum itself as it has been noted that some of the art can be more greatly appreciated after a few.

The architecture itself is another mind blowing feat as the museum is built underground, in excavated sandstone. The bottom level of the 3 story museum sits just 1 meter above sea level and will be prone to flood in the next 50 years, a fact to which Davids response is "It amuses me to think that in the unlikely event my building becomes an icon, in 50 years they'll be trying to work out how to save it.".

I have also decided that if I can't have my ashes sent into out of space then I want them buried at MONA which is also now a crematorium ... Well a sculpture of my cunt is already on the wall, along with 160 others mind .... so you know it makes sense.

OK so a little about the art then, my friend and sculpture Greg 'Humphrey' Taylor has his work 'Cunts: A Conversation' in there as part of the permanent exhibition and he has also been commissioned to make some new work, one of which is already in existence 'My Beautiful Chair', a joint project with Philip Nitschke, and includes a real life 'illegal' euthanasia machine .... apparently the church is outraged and this piece was the first to be vandalised on the second day of opening .... Greg was delighted by this fact as there was bets on as to which piece would be the first to go .... The Rotting Carcasses, The Shit Machine, and so on.

So that is it from me for now ..... here a few pictures that I took .... as for the rest you will have to find out yourself .... but here are some links to get you on your way.

MONA

MOORIL

The Entrance and it is Free. Free !!!

You can get there by the MONA ferry

Pro Euthanasia 

Me and My Cunt - Again !!

New Aerial Shows for 2011

I am super excited to have brand new costumes, shows and pictures ready for 2011 and beyond !!

The photographer for all the pics is my dear friend Stephane Grand .... I would highly recommend him if you are looking for someone to take your new images ... he has a full studio with aerial rigging options ... contact him on Facebook HERE

Show - Star Ship Trouper
Photo by Stephane Grand
Costume by Thom Ravnholdt

Show - Just Take Me !!!
Photo - Stephane Grand
Costume - David Mclaughin
Hair & Makeup - Viktoria Modesta

Show - Impermanence
Photo - Stephane Grand
Costume - Claire Ashley - Pickens
Hair & Makeup - Viktoria Modesta