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From 2002, at the forefront of the vibrant but intermittent alternative cabaret scene in Parisian nightclubs and bars, the French performance troupe Kisses Cause Trouble created New Burlesque shows en décalage — a term for distortion or deviation that I shall position as a specifically French version of queering. Kisses Cause Trouble1 (aka ‘Kisses’) interpreted and interpolated New Burlesque acts through and with the French national theatrical form of Grand Guignol, and its highly culturally and politically Influential ‘Ninth Art’ of the bande dessi/tee (comic books, strips and graphic novels).
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Pearlman, L. (2016). Kisses Cause Trouble Le Vrai Spectacle: Queering the French, Frenching the Queer. In: Campbell, A., Farrier, S. (eds) Queer Dramaturgies. Contemporary Performance InterActions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137411846_3
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