Abstract:Lou Henry Hoover writes about his experience of creating persona-driven performance, performing gender, and using camp to toe the line between comedy and tragedy. As an artist, Lou works at the intersection of drag king-ing, burlesque, and modern dance to create a persona—“Lou Henry Hoover—as a way to draw attention to the artifice of gende sexuality. In the essay, Hoover discusses how the stage offers a platform to borrow from the drag queen performance, the genre of queer performance most often association w… Show more
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