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 Back by Popular Demand for 1 weekend only!
Thursday - Saturday July 16-18 at 8PM $20
FAUX REAL with Monique Jenkinson/Fauxnique
 'A real woman who is a drag queen? I don't get it. 'Does she just feel that way?'
Get ready for high heel stunts, hero worship, makeup secrets, ballerina fantasies, '20 albums that made me gay,' and the fact that in live theater, sometimes people get kicked in the face. For those of you who never made it out to see Fauxnique at midnight on a Tuesday, make believe you're in a nightclub and enjoy, for those of you who have, here's a chance to see some old favorites in a new context before they get packed away for a while.
Performance artist/dancer Monique Jenkinson brings her drag queen alter-ego Fauxnique back to the Climate after her soldout run in May.
Part transplanted nightclub act, part meditation on artifice and authenticity, part dress-up play date, Faux Real revels in the tension between the glamour of performance and the intimacy of its living, breathing moment. Between drag performance pieces that draw heavily on the both the rigor and the sensual pleasure of dance, the audience gets to witness Fauxnique warm up, get into makeup, and break it down.
Biography
Monique Jenkinson is a multifaceted performing artist whose work hurls itself into the gaps between dance, theater, drag and performance art. She has been called ‘hilarious’ with an ‘intellectual spark’ and ‘enough to make a girl want to revisit her Susan Sontag.’ She has created and performed locally and internationally at ODC Theater, CounterPULSE, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the de Young Museum, and Trannyshack in San Francisco; Danspace Project, Howl Festival and the Stonewall in New York; the Met Theatre in Los Angeles; the Coachella music festival; and in Reykjavik, Amsterdam and London.
Monique’s drag queen alter ego, Fauxnique, is a prolific fixture on the experimental performance scene, and made history as the first woman to win San Francisco’s infamous Miss Trannyshack Pageant. She appears in the documentary Filthy Gorgeous: the Trannyshack Story and the April/May ’08 issue of Bust magazine.
Monique spent five years as co-director (with actor Kevin Clarke) of the performance duo Hagen & Simone; is a current artist-in-residence at ODC Theater, a past artist-in-residence at CounterPULSE, and a 2007 recipient (with mentor Keith Hennessey) of the CHIME Grant. Her solo and collaborative work has also received support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation and Theatre Bay Area. She graduated from Bennington College with a B.A. in Dance and Literature.
Recent projects include Parlor Game at the de Young, a role in the upcoming independent feature film, Devious, Inc., vocals and video for the dance track, 'Lipstique.' and the principal role in David J.’s Silver for Gold: the Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. Upcoming projects in 2009 include a solo cabaret evening, Faux/Real, at the Climate Theater (April); a performance at the New Museum in NYC (May), at the second Academic Conference on Camp (October) and the premiere of a new evening-length work, Luxury Items at ODC Theater (November).
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