The World Republic of the Notoriously Glorious is where you can find me this April 12th , in the blue mountains, for the launch of burlesque super queen Imogen Kelly’s new show for all queerdoes and their allies.
Aerial Performances at Sydney Olympic Park
Hovering above the skyline at Sydney Olympic Park in November, performing as part of the outdoor park activation, ambient entertainment, for a series of Cold Play concerts, in collaboration with Damian of ‘In the Park Events’, who commissioned the new act.
I choreographed a new routine to the Cold Play song ‘We Pray’ and performed it 3 times a day, for 4 days, rigged from our Aerial Pyramid, which I am licensed and insured to rig.
Here are some screen shots taken of the performances.
BRUNSWICK PICTURE HOUSE - BRUNS DOES BURLESQUE PERFORMANCES
XANADU lights up the sky for a run of shows at the Brunswick Picture House this July 2024. Aerial performance on my custom LED hoop.
Costume by Tania Doria, head piece by J Smith Esquire and LED Hoop by Artfoolish.
GLAMOUR PUSSY was teased out of the archive, revamped and set loose on audience.
Costume pieces by Majesty Black, J Smith Esquire and Louboutin provide the edgy sophistication to a cute baby doll frock and mink tailed pink microphone by Shiri Zinn.
I’m loving the double pink leopard print that happened by chance : D
ZCC SPACE - CIRCUS SCHOOL | CREATION STUDIO | EVENT SPACE
Zero Central Circus, a new company I launched in Australia in 2021 is now 3 years old and has its own permanent venue, ZCC SPACE, in the heart of Mittagong, the small town south of Sydney where I was born and raised and have returned to after a 30 year absence.
Having my own venue was an expected development, shall we say a little kick out of the nest, and I am so happy as it is now a period of growth and expansion for me and my school. A place for me to rehearse, prepare my classes, learn and teach more skills and keep the aerial circus career that I love, alive, which is a special challenge as I have also recently turned 50. What even is that ?
It is a work in progress and I have set up a fundraiser to buy more equipment including trapezes, a tight wire and stilts, so we can bring the circus to life here in the Southern Highlands.
See website for classes.
SPACE FEMINISMS - I'M ON THE BOOK COVER !
‘Empress Stah in Space’ was conceived in 2006 upon the discovery of the pioneering work by the Arts Catalyst aboard parabolic zero gravity flights. Emboldened by the improbability, Empress Stah set her sights as far as they could reach and embarked on an artistic journey to make a performance in outer space.
The journey shares its name with a solo show commissioned by the Pacitti Company for the SPILL Festival of Performance and funded by the Arts Council England, in 2011, the same year that Empress Stah first experienced weightlessness aboard a parabolic flight with the Zero Gravity Corporation.
Set at the edge of chaos, the shows non-linear narrative was transcribed through trance and writing sessions between Empress Stah and the shows director, seminal body artist Ron Athey, which took place at the disused RAF Bentwaters in Suffolk, the site of the biggest, purported, UFO/Military incident in Europe.
‘Stargasm’ is an aerial circus act performed with laser beams emitting from Empress Stah’s uranus. The conception and invention of the laser butt plug can be traced directly to a failed funding application to the Wellcome Trust to charter a zero gravity fight with the Russian Space Agency and make a 3D film of Empress Stah and cult rock star Peaches, floating and crashing around inside the plane.
Peaches went on to write the track ‘Light in Places’ for Empress Stah’s ‘Stargasm’, upon being given the words Iconoclasm and Stargasm, which had beamed down via Ron Athey at Bentwaters on the day we spent channelling the unknowable mysteries.
Empress Stah is a genre defying performance artist who fuses sublime aerial artistry with provocative and thought provoking performances.
Space Feminisms makes a radical enquiry into how earthly power structures are already expanding into our skies, facilitating a collaborative and interdisciplinary platform for scholars, artists, and designers to imagine radical constructions of human futures beyond Earth. At the intersection of scientific, cultural, social, and artistic speculations, the book gathers leading scholars, scientists, artists, and designers to develop innovative tactics and disruptive participations to create generative, alternative, and radical futures of and in space.
Edited by Space Arts Luminaries Marie-Pier Boucher, Annick Bureaud, Claire Webb & Nahum All.
Photo by Manuel Vason for my solo show, Empress Stah in Space.
In 2008 I launched an art project to make a performance in Outta Space.
View the link Space Mission to see the projects that have been created as part of my pilgrimage to the stars.
Published by Bloomsbury Press in 2024.
Photo by Clive Holland
Mince Birthday - Sydney Opera House Live - Vivid Festival
Another homecoming triumph for this small town girl … thanks for having me it was an honour and a pleasure !!!
PEACHES AND EMPRESS STAH LIVE IN SYDNEY TOWN HALL
Peaches and Empress Stah Performance
Light in Places / Stargasm
Ultra Violet - An LGBTQIA+ Women Event
Sydney World Pride
Sydney Town Hall 2023
ULTRA VIOLET - SYDNEY WORLD PRIDE
I am totally honoured to be performing at this event for World Pride Sydney, and super excited to be hooking up again with the one and only Peaches, for a performance of Stargasm / Light in Places.
‘Ultra Violet is the premier event for LGBTQIA+ women during Sydney WorldPride. DJs and Producers Sveta Gilerman and Jess Hill, with Jesswar, Bec Sandridge and Okenyo and international icon Peaches will transform Sydney Town Hall’s vaulted spaces into a party event that immerses and devours.’
Friday 3rd March 2023.
SPLORE FESTIVAL - NEW ZEALAND
I am beyond excited to be performing again, at this totally unique and awesome festival. Catch me on the Naked Eye Cabaret Stage on Saturday night !
It is sold out, but if you are curious, you can find out more about it for next year, by clicking the picture to the right.
Saturday 25th Feburary 2023
SAMIGO AMUSEMENT - ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Samigo Amusement, a fabulous supper club with cabaret shows, is the hottest place to be in Zurich this December, and I am coming to dazzle and amaze with performances of my Laser Ass Aerial Act, Stargasm - Light in Places, and an installation performance of the Vagina Oracle.
My visit will be fleeting, so be sure not miss out.
December 7th - 23rd