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How Do I Look?

Thursday, May 7, 2026 · 8:00 PM PDT · Behnke Center of Contemporary Performance
Performing Artsdragdanceperformance artphilosophyqueer performanceidentityfemininitycontemporary performance
How Do I Look?
Fauxnique presents a provocative performance piece that blends drag, dance, and philosophical inquiry to explore identity, perception, and self-image. The work combines precise physicality, irreverent humor, and vulnerability to examine how we see ourselves versus how the world perceives us.

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  • Monique Jenkinson, known as Fauxnique, is a San Francisco-based artist, choreographer, and drag performer who combines contemporary dance and drag to explore gender, identity, and the performance of femininity. Since 2003, she has developed a distinctive practice that merges cabaret and postmodern dance with feminist critique, becoming the first cis-woman to win a major drag queen pageant.

  • Fauxnique (Monique Jenkinson) is a San Francisco-based artist, choreographer, performer, and writer whose work dwells at the intersection of contemporary dance and cabaret. She made history as the first cisgender woman to be crowned a pageant-winning drag queen (Miss Trannyshack 2003) and is known for exploring the performance of femininity as a powerful, vulnerable, and subversive act.

  • Monique Jenkinson, also known as Fauxnique, is an American artist, choreographer, drag performer, and author born March 8, 1971. Her work dwells at the intersection of contemporary dance, cabaret, and performance art, exploring femininity as a powerful, vulnerable, and subversive act.

Venue

100 W Roy St, Seattle, WA 98119, USA · Queen Anne

Source

Found on ontheboards.org