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June 26 - June 29, 2012

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934 Brannan Street San Francisco, CA 94103
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This is What I Want - Performance Festival Dia Dear
Now in its third year, THIS IS WHAT I WANT continues to redefine relationships between intimacy and performance by presenting newly commissioned work that brings audiences thrillingly close to the locus of queer desire, in direct dialogue with economies of value and perception. San Francisco-based artists participating in the festival include singer-songwriter DavEnd, Trannyshack Star Search 2012 winner Dia Dear, performance artist and drag queen Mica Sigourney (VivvyAnne ForeverMORE), and mixed-media artist Sara Kraft. Los Angeles based artists Mabel Negrete, Nick Duran/Jmy James Kidd, Rafael Esparza and Taisha Paggett will also debut new work. “THIS IS WHAT I WANT commissions highly skilled performance makers to ‘come out’ and share their very personal desires on stage. Year after year what we are offered in return is a type of performance generosity that challenges, exalts, and leaves audiences celebrating queer desire’s full potential. For artists, the private and personal mix together in a display of fragility and indulgence, creating a performative moment that I, as a three-year veteran audience member, have learned to hunger for—that moment when something cracks open and the room achieves a feeling of collective communion.” – Ernesto Sopprani, THEOFFCENTER  How Much: $20 admission, advance tickets encouraged: http://thisiswhatiwant.eventbrite.com