Cheap Tease Salon
interactive performance & Hair Salon
with Help from Fran Gilboy - Hosted by Queer City Cinema
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2017
Cheap Tease was a one night performance in the form of a temporary hair salon - set up during a VIP reception after John Waters' presentation of 'Camp Trash Filth.' The event was hosted by Queer City Cinema, a yearly festival of queer performance and film in Regina, SK.
Cheap Tease took inspiration from the 'Lipstick Beauty Salon' in John Waters' film - Female Trouble. Taking queues from the film, and John Waters' aesthetic of big hair and bigger attitudes, clients were given over the top, back-combed up-dos - in exchange for sharing filthy secrets about themselves. Performing under the moniker of back-talkin'- back-combing, Debbie D. I was assisted by the filthy and funny, Fanny G. (dancer and hair stylist Fran Gilboy.)
Over teasing brushes and push up bras, Debbie D. and Fanny G. shared details about their tumultuous pasts as cruise ship entertainers and petty criminals - encouraging participants to divulge spicy details of their own. At Cheap Tease - truth was less important than trash - the racier the stories got, the higher the hairdos became. As was mentioned to all clients before starting - 'What is said in the chair - stays in the chair!
Cheap Tease took inspiration from the 'Lipstick Beauty Salon' in John Waters' film - Female Trouble. Taking queues from the film, and John Waters' aesthetic of big hair and bigger attitudes, clients were given over the top, back-combed up-dos - in exchange for sharing filthy secrets about themselves. Performing under the moniker of back-talkin'- back-combing, Debbie D. I was assisted by the filthy and funny, Fanny G. (dancer and hair stylist Fran Gilboy.)
Over teasing brushes and push up bras, Debbie D. and Fanny G. shared details about their tumultuous pasts as cruise ship entertainers and petty criminals - encouraging participants to divulge spicy details of their own. At Cheap Tease - truth was less important than trash - the racier the stories got, the higher the hairdos became. As was mentioned to all clients before starting - 'What is said in the chair - stays in the chair!