Shows
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Berlin Cabaret
approx. 2 hours - Bridge Markland +
Jerry Jenkins
Cabaret Show
/ Ballroom Dance Party
Videoclip: Bridge Markland + Jerry Jenkins Bridge Markland / Jerry Jenkins berlin cabaret project - Lenght: 2 hours plus one intermission
Bridge Markland Berlins notorious transformation artist and Bandleader Jerry Jenkins invite you to an evening of spectacular entertainment.
The frame of the night will be Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels wonderful fresh and lively mix of music: romantic Waltz and Tango for melting hearts, Rumba and Cha-Cha for swinging hips, pulsating Jive, Polka to carry you away and crazy Twist that shakes the walls. Inbetween Bridge Markland jumps into many female, male and androgynous roles and characters. Her specialty is the transformation into different beings in front of the audiences disbelieving eyes. She will also be interpreting dance music classics in a new and different light, plus singing several wonderfully strange art songs. Jerry Jenkins created songs in the style of American and European dance music classics to Bridge Marklands Poetry Slam like lyrics. The whole evening is creating an exciting mixture of styles, which is asking to be experienced.
berlin cabaret project feels inspired by Berlin Cabaret during the Weimar Republic. They do not want to merely recreate these historic artforms, but rather aim to transform and develop them into modern forms of artistic expression.Atmosphere will be created not historicism.
in short: - Bridge Markland – Berlins legendary transformation artist
- Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels – American Dancemusic since 1920
invite you to an evening of spectacular entertainment:
- sensational transformation performances
- poetry from the 1920’s + poetry of today
- grotesque dance
- art songs
- dance music which will throw you off your seats
- the audience will be fed with erotic fruit
Performances:
- 4 sold out shows at Teatro Pradillo / Festival Veranos de La Villa, Madrid, July 2007
Bridge Markland / Jerry Jenkins Ballroom / Danceparty - Length: the whole evening ...
Dance Party with Show-Elements
3 hours of life music. During the intermissions, dance music will be played from CD’s for uninterrupted dance fun.
Both events can be combined. After the cabaret project there can be a dance party. As successfully done in Madrid.
Performances:
- Frühlingsfieber (springfever) 07, Ballroom event, Saalbau Neukölln, Berlin, 30 April 2007
- Frühlingsfieber 08, Ballroom event, Saalbau Neukölln, Berlin, 30 April 2008
www.fruehlingsfieber.de
- Swing Ballroom / Dancefestival Potsdam, in the Spiegeltent, 27 May.2007
artist infos: Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels:
Away with dinnerjackets and cultivated boredom. Here comes Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels, ambassadors of a new generation of Ballroom Bands. The groups outfit is reminiscent of Laurel & Hardy and The Gang. Their music conjures in their audience the spirit of the “roaring Twenties” and gives it new life. With their novel interpretations, the band makes songs written 80 years ago sound fresh, as if they had been written yesterday. From the origins of Jazz to Rhythm & Blues, crossing musical and cultural boundaries, through the colourful world of Chicago Shuffle, New Orleans Rag and Louisiana-Stomp, the French-Waltz and the Argentinian melancholy, Jerry Jenkins takes us on a journey through time of American and European dance music.
www.jerryjenkins.de
Bridge Markland the Berlin dance-theatre-cabaret-performance-artist is a virtuoso of roleplay and transformation. A chameleon which throws herself into many extremes, but isn’t merely limited to one of them. She is an artist who effortlessly crosses all boundaries between sub- and high-culture, dance, theatre, performance, cabaret and erotic-art. Her speciality are transgender-performances in which the audience can experience the change of woman to man (or vice versa). There is an erotic aura around her in all roles and genders. She has female and male sex-appeal far away from hetero- or homosexual limits and all inscribed identities. Other focuses are: classic interpretations in collage with popular music, biographic performances, grotesque-dance/dance-improvisation, walk acts, silent-movies, writing, readings…
Bridge Markland has 6 full evening shows and 17 short performances in her solo repertoire.
For many years she has been a thrill to her audiences performing on stages in Europe, USA and Australia...
Pressvoices:
Pressvoice about Berlin Cabaret Project in Madrid:
”...La segunda propuesta llegaba desde Alemania, el Cabaret Berlinés de Bridge Markland, conocida artista del transformismo que realizaba cambios inquietantes de identidad frente a los ojos del espectador, acompanada de deliciosa banda de Jerry Jenkins, que creaba la perfecta atmósfera para el juego poetico...”
9/2007, Primer Acto Madrid
Pressvoices about Bridge Markland:
„In Berlin I experienced something you wouldn’t believe“. ... The gender boundaries are becoming more diffuse...The bald headed Berliner Bridge Markland is on her best way there...as travestie-chameleon in her stage performances, she turns any gender cliché upside down...“ Der Spiegel Hamburg
”When she puts her work costumes in order, she has double work to do: on one side the sexy dresses, on the other side men’s costumes and ties. This is the idea behind Bridge Marklands' one woman show…. Or should we say one mans' show?” Kyriakatikh eleftherotypia Athens
„...really breathtaking is the moment, when the…society bitch reveals her true medusa head.“ Neues Deutschland Berlin
"The androgynous power-girl Bridge appears‚ licking and sitting in the laps of her... audience... Performing a marvellous playback-version of James Browns <It's a man's world>. " Independent London
”…Markland is even more eccentric…” C.A.B. New York
Jerry Jenkins & his Band of Angels:
”Highly amusing and first class.” Siegessäule Berlin Queer Magazine
zitty Berlin magazine:
Award in the category “Best Bands of Berlin”