Cherdonna Shinatra
Cherdonna Shinatra is the stage name of Jody Kuehner (born c. 1980[1]), a Seattle-based, American dancer, drag queen and performance artist.[2] Kuehner won the Stranger Genius Award in Performance in 2015.[3] Kuehner has been called a "female impersonator impersonator"[1] and describes her own performance as Cherdonna as "a female-bodied person, presenting as a male-bodied person, presenting as a female".[4] She has been mistaken for a man by some audience members who don't expect to see the "exaggerat[ed] femininity" displayed by a drag persona to be a biological woman.[5] After a performance in Seattle she had her breasts grabbed by a person who expected to find a prosthetic,[5] and she performed onstage several times with a male partner before he realized she was not also male.[1]
Kuehner was artist in residence and instructor at Velocity Dance Center in 2014[6] and part of a 2014-2015 multidisciplinary exhibition at Frye Art Museum in Seattle.[7] Kuehner describes herself as queer.[2][5][8]
References
- ^ a b c Christopher Frizzelle (September 10, 2014), "The Inexplicable, Fascinating Cherdonna Shinatra, the Drag Queen Who's Not a Drag Queen", The Stranger
- ^ a b Jason Victor Serinus (June 2, 2016), "Cherdonna Shinatra does it her way: 'Gender fluid' performer shakes off expectations", The Seattle Times
- ^ Christopher Frizzelle (September 16, 2015), "Cherdonna, Winner of the 2015 Stranger Genius Award in Performance", The Stranger
- ^ Aaron Scott (April 23, 2016), Drag Through The Back Door With Wigs The Size Of Texas, Oregon Public Broadcasting
- ^ a b c Rebecca Jacobson (April 27, 2016), "The Surprising Gender Bending of Drag Queen Cherdonna Shinatra", Portland Monthly
- ^ Class descriptions and faculty bios: Professional/Advanced Contemporary with Jody Kuehner, Velocity Dance Center
- ^ Genius / 21 Century / Seattle, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, September 26, 2015 – January 10, 2016, "an unprecedented, large-scale celebration of exceptional multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice in Seattle in the twenty-first century."
- ^ Seth Sommerfeld (October 13, 2014), "A Fiendish Conversation with Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra)", Seattle Met
Further reading
- Kurtz, Katie (January 16, 2019). "Cherdonna Performs at the Frye Every Day for Three Months Straight". The Stranger. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
- Richards, Becs (February 27, 2019). "Cherdonna Shinatra takes her subversive clowning to Frye Art Museum with 'DITCH'". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
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