PERFORMANCE ART
Ignacio has performed their one-person shows, poetry, drag and skits across the country and internationally. Ignacio has used storytelling, film, slide projection, music and audience participation to provoke, educate and entertain diverse audiences. Ignacio’s performance art is rooted in the personal and political.
COMING SOON: Look Like a Man/Think Like a Woman (2018)
An internal, interpersonal and institutional examination of one gender fluid persons mind and body-journey in society.
An internal, interpersonal and institutional examination of one gender fluid persons mind and body-journey in society.
CURRENT SHOWS:
All of Me*
A compilation of poetry and storytelling spanning a decade of memories and transformations. *POPULAR
Fluid
A dissection of movement, naked truths, gendered-body-fluids, stereotypes and funky music.
All of Me*
A compilation of poetry and storytelling spanning a decade of memories and transformations. *POPULAR
Fluid
A dissection of movement, naked truths, gendered-body-fluids, stereotypes and funky music.
Ignacio has performed shorter monologues, skits and performance pieces on their own and with several fantastic tour groups such as Mangos with Chili, The Tranny Road Show and Gender Queeries. They have performed these shows at colleges and universities, pride events, LGBTQ groups and organizations across the country and internationally
PAST SHOWS AND PERFORMANCES:
Violence in Motion (2012) (Portions of VIM have been performed at The Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance and CBGB.) Violence in Motion Is a multi-media performance piece that focuses on an individual’s reaction as well as the publics’ inaction to specific forms of interpersonal violence on or around the NYC transit system. Can a young woman aid in diverting an attack on a young man by other men? How does a mother intervene in a sexual assault while traveling with her daughter? Can a trans masculine person stop a physical attack between two men? Is it safe for a lesbian of color to speak up about co-occurring assaults revolving around race and sexual orientation? This show delves into bystander apathy and how and when individuals find the agency to speak up.
Dancer (2006) has been performed at The Transfabulous Conference in London, The Wow Café Theater in NY, Sex Worker Literati in NY and Swarthmore College as well as other venues. Dancer Is a performance piece about a dyke who travels to Hawaii for the summer and finds herself stranded. With no place to stay, no money to eat, no one she knows and no jobs to be had, she must be a “Dancer”. Tattooed, masculine presenting, and dancing for “interesting” tourists, the dyke continues to question her gender identity. He transitions in the middle of it all and issues of internalized oppression, sexuality and body image emerge. “Dancer” will prove to be funny, enlightening, political and extremely sexy.
Lágrimas de Cocodrilo / Crocodile Tears (2002) has been performed at The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students' Society, The University of North Texas, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, SUNY Oswego, Harvard University, Grand Valley State, Charis Bookstore in Atlanta,GA, LaSalle University, The College of the Holy Cross Worcester and other venues.
How does a single mother survive the lingering nightmare of childhood sexual abuse and find inner peace? Lágrimas de Cocodrilo/ Crocodile Tears is a brief experience, into spoken word activist Ignacio Rivera's tale of survival via skits and poetic monologues. This show takes you into a journey of their struggle with female-on-female childhood sexual abuse & incest, understanding their queerness and raising a female child in the midst of recovery.
Do you see me?
Is a contemplative interaction with audiences. Ignacio uses visuals, questions and
commonalities to unearth truths and make visible their reality.
Gender Boxed
A performance art piece incorporating sexuality, poetry, Trans-formation and grey-areas.
S&M
What do you get when you mix drag and kink? You get a sexy-hot performance with whips, leather- hoods and “Enrique” the submissive moving and beating to Rihanna’s S&M song.
Fuck or Beat?
A performance piece incorporating spoken word and movement that examines societal reactions to gender anomalies.
Ignacio Rivera uses their compelling presence and wry wit to draw you in. Once you are, they slays you with their saber-tipped truths and illuminating visions. Whether in film or on stage, Ignacio is a charismatic trailblazer on the post QueerFrontier. Mandatory. ~Anderson Toone |
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