Man for a day (2012)


Man for a day
Geregisseerd door:  Katarina Peters, Duitsland, VK, Finland, 2012
Met: Diane Torr

Diane Marian Torr (1948- 2017) was an artist, writer and educator, particularly known as a male impersonator and for her drag king,

Since 1990, Torr taught "drag king" workshops in which women can learn not only to dress as a man but also codes of behaviour, gesture, body language and movement that constitute the performance of masculinity.[7][8] The workshops, which Torr taught widely in Europe, the USA, India and Turkey, have been hugely influential, inspiring other works and a documentary film.

Door de wereld gaan zonder object te zijn. Interview van Dagmar Buchta met Diana Torr In: “Der Standard”, 28 nov. 203 / Transformatie, jrg. 31, 2014, nr. 1, p. 16-18

The worldwide stage appearances and workshops of the gender activist and performance artist Diane Torr, are legendary. For the past thirty years, the focus of this performance artist's work has been an exploration of the theoretical, artistic as well as the practical aspect of gender identity. Katarina Peters casted and observed a Berlin workshop taught by Diane Torr, in which a group of open-minded women came together to discover the secrets of masculinity. What makes a man a man and a woman a woman? Precisely when and where is gender identity formatted? How much is nature and how much nurture? Each of Torr's workshops represents an open-ended laboratory experiment in social behaviour in which the question is posed. The audience receives an intimate view into the lives of the participants before, during and after their transformation to newly found men

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Man for a day

Zie ook: 

Drag kings

Male impersonators



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