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Her Spectacular Entrances

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Her Spectacular Entrances sees Showwoman and performance maker Marisa Carnesky chart the research, processes and productions of her 30 year career in the UK. It explores the projects that have defined her work including the solo show Jewess Tattooess in the 1990s, the large-scale ride Carnesky's Ghost Train in the 2000's, the company stage show Dr Carnesky's Incredible Bleeding Woman in the 2010s through to the stage and promenade performances of Showwomen in the 2020's. It proposes the potential power of the word Showwoman as a development from the term Showgirl and explores how new communities of women performers inhabit it. Carnesky looks at the relationship of her practice and contemporary performers to lesser-known women's performance heritage. Moreover she considers the drive to sustain a long term practice of making cross genre performance work that draws both from art and entertainment traditions.

Keywords: BA Contemporary and Popular Performance ; Carnesky's Ghost Train ; Fairground Ride ; Jewess Tattooess ; Jewish Performers ; Menstronauts ; Menstrual Ritual ; Radical Cabaret ; Showwomen ; Showwomxn ; Sideshow ; Spectacular performance ; Stage Magic ; Tattoos ; Women in Circus

Paperback ISBN: 9781835950104
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Her Spectacular Entrances
Intellect , 245 (2024); https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1386/9781835950104_18
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