I premiered 'am i ever gonna be enough' at 8pm on Tuesday 20 June 2017, at the Hyde Park Book Club, to a full house including my parents.
Credits
Performance and Choreography: Virginia Kennard
Mentorship and Dramaturgy: Grace Surman
Soundtrack: Betty Lightbulb
Poster design: Cherry Holahan
Backing track: Trina Louise Higgins
Sound operation: Adam Sas-Skowronski
Photography: Daisy Petley
Music and Text (in order of performance)
‘Lady Lazarus’ - Sylvia Plath
‘whkglrfthchshststdbpmn feat. Rose Blake’ - Emi Pogoni
‘Spectra Ephemera’ - Amy Jean Barnett
‘Aires’ - Minuit
‘ITEXMAH’ - Mongo Skato
‘Roxanne’ - Morgan James
‘El Tango de Roxanne’ - Moulin Rouge
East London Strippers Collective
‘A Room Full of Cute’ - Minuit
‘Naughty Girl’ - Beyoncé
‘19/01’ - Amy Jean Barnett
‘Survival poem’ (rewritten by Virginia Kennard) - Jenny Holzer
‘Break the Ice’ - Britney Spears
East London Strippers Collective
‘Gimme That Swing’ - Cissie Redgwick
‘Ex’s and Oh’s - Elle King
‘ITEXMAH’ - Mongo Skato
‘The Gift of Death’ - George Monbiot
‘Alright’ - Tadpole
‘Big Spender’ - Sweet Charity
‘Gold Guns Girls’ - Metric
‘Green Light’ - Lorde
Books (in installation)
'Sex on the Margins' - Laura María Agustín
'Art/Porn' - Kelly Dennis
'Capital' - Karl Marx
'The Beaver Show' - Jacqueline Frances
'How you might know me' - Sabrina Mahfouz
'Becoming Sexual' - R. Danielle Egan
'Girl Trouble' - Carol Dyhouse
'Whores and other Feminists' - Jill Nagle
'Living Dolls' - Natasha Walter
'Sexing the Self' - Elspeth Probyn
'Sexy Bodies-' Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth Probyn
'Powers of Desire' - Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, Sharon Thompson
'The Absent Body' - Drew Leder
'the explicit body in performance' - Rebecca Schneider
'The Trouble with Women' - Jacky Fleming
'On the Body' - Imogen Cunningham
'Men explain things to me' - Rebecca Solnit
'Tendencies' - Eve Kosofsky Sedgewick
'Ways of Looking' - Ossian Ward
'Angry Women' - Andrea Juno and V. Vale
