Brava
Theater Center Presents ASTRID HADAD, Mexican Singer/Performance
artist
Brava!
for Women in the Arts presents the incomparable and irreverent antics
of Lebanese Mexican singer and performance artist, Astrid Hadad, at
THE BRAVA THEATER CENTER (2789 24th Street, San Francisco, CA - 415-647-2822
- http://www.brava.org/)
on Wednesday, October 9th through Sunday, October 13th - all shows
at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $30. Astrid returns to Brava after a weekend
of sold-out houses last October.
A cabaret diva worthy
of her own category of performance, the sultry-voiced chanteuse comes
from Mexico City's hip cabaret scene. Astrid camps up traditional
Mexican songs“ the end product being her unique style of Latin kitsch
performance art, which she calls Heavy Nopal. She delivers each song
with intensity while adding a feminist, humorous and theatrical twist
... not to mention outrageous costumes. During one song she'll have
nopales (prickly pear cactus) growing out of her shoulders, and in
the next flames will be shooting from her Aztec headdress. At one
moment she'll be dressed as the Statue of Liberty and the next as
Diego Rivera's cala lily vendor “ all while theatrically commenting
on topics such as politics, immigration, feminism, and spousal abuse.
Combine that with wild "hair choreography" (hair attached to overhead
cables), and you have an Astrid Hadad show.
Astrid, who was born in
the Yucatan state of Quintana Roo, is accompanied by her back-up band,
Los Tarzanes, as she belts out boleros, corridos, rancheras, tangos,
fados, cocktail jazz and lounge lizard music in Spanish. She intertwines
surrealistic costumes, song and dance, conjuring up images of Carmen
Miranda and Nina Hagen meet Lily Munster. Astrid's creativity and
shows are indescribable, inexhaustible, and far from conventional.
The former soap opera actress' over-the-top body language and outlandish
costumes translate into any language. Non-Spanish speakers will be
equally entertained and understand Astrid's Spanglish banter with
the audience, though a punchline might be missed here and there.
Astrid has released the
CDs: Ay, Corazon Sangrante (Bleeding Heart), Pecadora (Sinner), and
Cabaret 2000, Three Mexican Cabaret Divas with Liliana Felipe and
Eugenia LeÑn. Astrid has also toured extensively in over 20 countries
throughout Latin America, North America, Europe, Australia and New
Zealand.
Her web site is http://www.astridhadad.com/.
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