|
|
Article: Pop Culture Princess: lesbian performance artist Elizabeth Whitney merges feminist camp with country music.(05 THEATER SPECIAL: 05 Playwrights & Performers)(Interview)
- Article from:
- Curve
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2005 Curve Magazine, Outspoken Enterprises, San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 863-6538. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Over the past decade, Elizabeth Whitney has worked dozens of jobs ranging from delivering singing telegrams in Florida and giving ballroom dance lessons in South Carolina to crooning jazz tunes in France and teaching yoga in Utah.
"Those were the wandering years before I really knew what I wanted to do with my life," says Whitney. "I have the best times in the most random places; traveling always leads to such grand adventures."
Those grand adventures--along with snippets from childhood journals and satirical observations on everything from politics to pop culture--have become the fodder for a new career as a performance artist. Whitney wrote and ...