Over the course of a year, Miyake follows this warm, indomitable businesswoman as she recalls happy family memories and strives to adapt to life outside the contamination zone.
Dream Girls This fascinating documentary, produced for the BBC, opens a door into the spectacular world of the Takarazuka Revue, a highly successful musical theater company in Japan. Each year, thousands of girls apply to enter the male-run Takarazuka Music School. The few who are accepted endure years of a highly disciplined and reclusive existence before they can join the Revue, choosing male or female roles.
Onnabes are women who live as men and have girlfriends, although they don't usually identify as lesbians.
As the film follows them at home and on the job, all three talk frankly to the camera about their gender-bending lives, revealing their views about women, sex, transvestitism and lesbianism. It was a privilege to work with these amazing women and to create with and for them a spot in the world of funk, a kookiness, into a theater of the bizarre.
We found a wonder in life and created hilarity instead of straight up and down entertainment. It shines on every page of our blog that Elisa Leonelli, who believed in us from the start, created. We see ourselves dancing in videos from edited versions of our shows created by our own, Ms Marilyn Corwin. Thank all of you for your phenomenal contributions to the L A. Well, nobody sent us a request to see this old photo, so here it is, a blast from the past Knockers appeared in several film and television projects, separately and together.
Many former Knockers still work as professional actresses, dancers and choreographers. Others wrote books and started businesses. Yana Nirvana is creating art sculptures, see slideshow at yananirvana. Take a look at the website cellularrecalltherapy. Dee Dee Rescher still works as an actress, she has recently started a Chili Pepper sauce business with her husband George. Enjoy their fun website: organicoriginals. Suzi Lonergan teaches Pilates.
She has made a video, that you can order on her website suzilonergan. Kim Blank teaches dance and fitness classes in Los Angeles. Find a description of classes and schedule on her website kimblank. I have written a book about Robert Redford. It was only today that I found another article, with my text and photos, that I was able to place in a magazine I worked with, Corrier Boy Music, a weekly supplement to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere Della Sera, dated February 27, Posted in Photography.
I checked the stats for this blog today and was amazed, we had more views in 17, than in 12, , 36, total from June So I sent a message to everyone with the good news and received these responses:.
Kimberly Blank : WOW! Thank you Elisa, for keeping us current and accounted for!!! Kimberlee Carlson : Groovy!
Eileen Molloy : Wow! Lisa Durazo : We all knew the Knockers would never die! Kim : Never! Never die!!! I knew it — we were all so special… it makes me cry to read this and to hear from all of you…. DeeDee : Our fearless leader has surfaced!!!! You gave us a unique place to express our individuality as dancers, and show-offs… An actual way to be paid for performing in LA and beyond… A chance to develop and create…A unique opportunity for being ourselves and exploring our inner Knocker-ness!!!
Muchas Gracias!!! Kimberlee : Ditto! Eileen : Yes, Kim, you summed it up perfectly!!! Thank you, Jennifer, for that wonderful dancing experience!! DeeDee : I concur…thanks Kim! Beatifully expressed! Jennifer gave me the opportunity to perform almost daily, to actually make money while going to UCLA, to travel to Japan and to really grow as a performer. It was a very alive and passionate time. We all have friends for life — and thanks to you photos!
Love to all, and Happy, Healthy, New Year! Yana Nirvana : Thanks for keeping the Knocker home fires burning. Keep on keeping on! Your extraordinary photos captured the essence and fun of the group through the years.
While editing the Knockers videos, I had the pleasure of getting to know the girls and their performance personalities all over again. My fondest sentiments to all. Our lives were filled with dreams worth while. We danced and had a grand old time doing it.
We will live on through these beautiful photographs. All too wonderful to forget, caught in the moment by a great photographer. It was our time… My love and thanks to each of you. Jennifer Jean, the old time burlesque queen.
Good news from Jennifer Stace! As the daughter of the famous Hegelian philosopher, Walter T. Stace, Princeton University scholar and pioneer in the study of Mysticism, I thought I was special; dancing for Einstein as a child and professionally as an adult, testing every rule placed in my path regardless of consequences. I was not the proper little girl Mummy wanted.
Born in Ceylon, an Indian princess in my imagination, she was exotic, tiny, color-conscious and displeased with my dark eyes, gypsy curls, olive skin and thoroughly wanton ways. I was not blue-eyed and blond, not an academic like my brother and father.
I smoked, drank, was sexually active, fought like a wildcat, loved fun and formed fun-loving, rule-breaking gangs. I choreographed films and commercials and created the avant-guard comedy troop, The LA Knockers.
I had my son, Michael. I had husbands and lovers. I wrote to Jennifer today to wish her a Happy New Year and tell her that our LA Knockers blog has been viewed more than 45, times, and she gave me the great news. Check it out, buy your own copy, write your reviews by clicking on this Amazon web page. Stace, the well-known Princeton philosopher, author, poet and scholar… During the seventies and eighties… she created, choreographed and directed the ground breaking L.
Knockers, an avant-guard musical comedy dance troop. Joan Wulfsohn sent us an excerpt from her new book Stalking Carlos Castaneda. This iconoclasm was so far ahead of its time that the only true fans the troupe attracted were members of the gay community and an occasional fellow nut like Tom Waits and Frank Zappa. I did do a short film this past year where I had to dance, and the LA Knockers training really came in handy! Just taking it all day to day, you never know when that phone is gonna ring!
Email Address:. Create a free website or blog at WordPress. Written by laknockers July 4, at pm. Knockers first photo session with 3 comments Yana, Jennifer, Marilyn.
Jennifer, Marilyn, Yana. Yana, Jennifer, Marilyn. Written by laknockers July 3, at pm. Knockers add guitars with 4 comments Jennifer, Becky, Kimberlee. Written by laknockers July 2, at am. Kimberlee, Marilyn, Jennifer, Patti, Becky. Written by laknockers July 1, at am.
Marilyn, Patti, Jennifer. Kimberlee, Becky. Written by laknockers June 30, at am. Knockers dance with 3 comments Kimberlee, Becky, jennifer. Kimberlee, Jennifer, Becky. Kimberlee, Jennifer. Becky, Jennifer. Written by laknockers June 29, at am. Knockers spoof movies with one comment Jennifer and Becky. Kimberlee and Kim Kimberley.
Knockers 8 dancers with one comment Kimberlee, Becky, Jennifer, Patti. Knockers new dancers with 2 comments Debbie, Jolli, Leticia. Leticia, Kim, Debbie. Jennifer, Boyd. Written by laknockers June 28, at pm. Patti, Eileen, Yana, Lisa, Becky. Written by laknockers June 28, at am. Eileen, Yana, Becky, Lisa, Patti. Patti, Lisa. Knockers fashion leave a comment » In those years, , I had been shooting some fashion in my studio and on location, so I decided to print a promotional card to advertise this kind of photographic work.
A photo of the L. Knockers was included. Lisa, Suzi, Dee Dee. Marilyn, Becky. Jennifer, Kimberly, Liz, Dee Dee. Dee Dee Rescher with 3 comments Dee Dee. Written by laknockers June 27, at am. Storyline Edit. A film about love and gender. This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan - where the hosts are transgender men. The young women who come there often have relationships with them but the underlying fear is whether such a relationship can withstand the pressures to get married and have children.
All three boys deal with this in different ways. These three hosts, the Shinjuku Boys, take us into their lives. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Connections Follows Dream Girls User reviews 1 Review. Top review. An open and honest film. As stated in the summary of this film, it's one following three trans men who work at hosts in Shinjuku's New Marilyn Club.
It's a very open and honest view into their lives, their feelings and just general life for them, talking about things such as their sexual lives to their families along with their view on relationships as a whole. It's not presented as a "Oh, look at THESE people" type of film, which as an LGBT person myself I always shudder at encountering with older documentaries, but rather a journey into lives of normal people living their lives and their thoughts and feelings.
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