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Jen Cressey

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About Me

Multi-disciplined performing artist. Sometime Impresario.Claims to infamy; aerial silks daredevil, half of manic finger puppet duo Mit Funf; a founding member of satirical burlesque group the Hot Toddy Girls; was once a core member of Montreal's "most naked theatre company"; got a standing ovation from Paul Williams for tap dancing on Robert Dayton (as Beef) during a tribute show. Little did I know that I was enacting a finale scene that was cut from Phantom of the Paradise; did time as Editor in Chief of alternative weekly Terminal City;my grandmother's cousin wrote the music for Hair.

My Interests

Aerial Silk, Clown, circus, performance projects, current events, cultural events, food, friends

I'd like to meet:

Freaky/ arty creators, producers, playmates. Iconoclastic rabblerousers. Guerilla artistes. Word sluts. Et cetera.

Music:

Bobby Conn, P:ano, Ford Pier, Destroyer, Canned Hamm, Young & Sexy, The New Pornographers, Freddy Mercury, Queen, Prince, Pixies, Bjork, Blondie, Bessie Smith, Eartha Kitt, Edith Piaf, Beastie Boys, Beck, Butthole Surfers, Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Fall, Sleater-Kinney, Sparklehorse, Tom Waits, the Tiger Lillies, Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Blossom Dearie, Keely Smith, Patsy Cline, Gogol Bordello, Goran Bregovic, Manu Chao, Spoon, Modest Mouse, Momus, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MIA, Calexico, et cetera

Movies:

The Jerk, Stalker, Santa Sangre, Dog Day Afternoon, Safe, The Shining, Tuvalu, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski, Coen Bros. in general, Jarmusch, Fellini, Svankmeyer

Books:

James Joyce, Sam Sheperd, Joe Orton, Don Delillo, Jeannette Winterson, Tom Robbins, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar, Rumi

Heroes:

Samuel Beckett, Gilda Radner, Steve Martin