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   Photos: FAGG Austin, Homomentum photoshoot (Kina Williams) Kick/Ball/Change August (Kina Williams)
Pants-Off
Production was founded in Portland, Oregon in October, 2007 by Max
Voltage & Jodi Bon Jodi. While on a road-trip home from the International Drag King-Community Extravaganza (IDKE) in Vancouver, Canada, Max & Jodi visioned a
Circus-Themed night of vaudevillian genderfuck, and thus
Freakshow-a-Go-Go came into being, and was Pants-Off Productions' inaugural project. Freakshow-a-Go-Go happened in PDX in May 2008 and brought together over 50 performers from all over
the
country including performers from Chicago, Oakland, Santa Fe and
Austin as well as local performers. FAGG has since traveled to Austin, Texas in May 2009 and Seattle, Washington in 2010.
Post-Freakshow, Pants-Off Productions was catalyzed by the Fertile Grounds Festival of New-Works, and as part of that, produced Kick/Ball/Change, a dance showcase. Kick/Ball/Change was such a success that POP expanded it into a three-part series. Soon-after, Pants-Off Productions began an annual dance-off tradition in July 2009 with Homo's Got Talent, which continues to happen every year! Pants-Off Produces Homomentum, a queer cabaret series, which began in Fall of 2009, and is now in its 3rd season. As of Fall 2010, Pants-Off Productions is run solely by Max Voltage (see bio below), with the help of an amazing support of volunteers and queer community. See the Projects section for more info on all these exciting creative projects!
Bio
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(Photo Credit: Eric Sellers)
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Max Voltage has been performing & genderfucking since birth. Max's more-recent performance career was jump-started by
winning the San Francisco Drag King of the year title in 2003, after
which Max co-founded the genderqueer performance troupe Ubergay Cabaret
in Portland in 2004. Max directed Ubergay's drag pop-opera Jack's
off the Beanstalk, and organized Ubergay's 2005 East Coast tour. From 2006-07 Max co-produced and co-hosted Wildcard, a monthly queer variety
show. Max has a BA in Gender Studies from Santa Clara University, where Max started the first ever Drag Show at a Catholic University in the Country. Additionally, Max has a Masters Degree in Business from Portland State University. Max is also a classically trained violinist since the age of 5, and performs & tours with various musicians including Katie Sawicki and Chris Pureka, and is 1/2 of the campy magical musical duo Glitterfruit.Check out Max's Blog: http://maxvoltage.wordpress.com/ |
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