TBA:06 THE WORKS

FLESHTONE

“Armed to the teeth in glitzy, slutty, spandex heavy (and very well-made) homemade costumes, Fleshtone are Portland’s favorite electro sex performance artists. Be ready for spazzy dance beats, lewd stage antics, raunchy lyrics, and fly backup dancers. You may fear for your life.” —Portland Mercury

Following a philosophy of collaboration and shared creative energy, Fleshtone developed the themes and characters of the electro-opera Fleshtonics before the eyes of Portland and Seattle audiences, and will be performing the full work for the first time at TBA:06. Complete with original music and choreography, more than thirty handmade costumes, gymnastics, stage magic, video animation, and over-sized puppetry, Fleshtonics is an electronic-music performance combining elaborate theatrics with reckless gender-exploding sexuality in a twenty-one song narrative. Using the overlapping languages of music, dance, and visual art, Fleshtonics tells the story of one human’s transformation from a multi-gendered superhero into the messiah-like creator of a new utopia where unconditional love and freedom are shared by all living organisms.

Portland based Fleshtone is a community of multi-media performers and artists including costumer/choreographer Jayme Hansen, electronic music producers Brett Whitman, visual/performance artist Joseph Bryan, and dancers Kim Hansen, Jill Scantlan, and Kara Murff.