Italian Variety Bent Style Dance

Come to this Queer Italian event>> GRIND IT ITALIAN BENT STYLE DANCE

Location ~ Northcote Town Hall, 189 High St. Northcote • Date ~ Saturday 16 May 6.30pm to Sunday 17 May 12.30am • Tickets ~ $20 full/ $17 conc.

Live Italian band ‘Duo Combo’ & DJ spinning Italian & non-Italian pop, folk, disco tunes • All welcome, Wheelchair accessible venue, Groovy door & raffle prizes 2b1, BYO all drinks & food

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Get ready to Grind it Italian ‘Bent’ Style with the Original Flag Sisters & their ‘Flyin High’ show, plus stupendous Italian Australian performers: Rocco D’Amore, Elvira & Signora Gessica. MCs: Neil Hansen & Petula Flag (yay!). A ‘fantastiche’ night of loud cheer, frantic (& not so) tarantella dancing, plenty of vino with extraordinary glamour shows to boot! Be initiated, immersed & reinvented into Italian culture - bent style!

About ‘The Flag Sisters’ (Le Sorelle Bandiera) It’s thirty years since three audacious actors donned frocks and appeared on prime-time Italian television as Le Sorelle Bandiera (The Flag Sisters). It could have spelt the end of their careers, but they were an overnight sensation and went on to become one of Italy’s most adored acts, the paparazzi forever snapping at their high heels. In the wake of the award-winning documentary The Fabulous Flag Sisters (Mago Films, 2008), Neil Hansen and Mauro Bronchi, the two ‘surviving’ Flag Sisters, have revived their much-applauded act, with Ronnie van den Bergh (former principal dancer with the WA Ballet) replacing Tito Le Duc who now presides in diva heaven. In FLYIN’ HIGH, the Flag Sisters are trolley dollies, drawn back into service by the global financial crisis.

On an AIR FLAG flight to just about everywhere (“Air Flag is proud to have some of the youngest, sexiest cabin attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on board this evening”), our ‘Sisters’ are more intent on providing in-flight entertainment than cabin service. And in an outrageous sequence of trio, duo and solo turns, they transform the ‘cabin’ into their private fantasy world, peopled by Marilyns, Jessica Rabbits, strippers, flamenco dancers and Neapolitan chantreuses.

FLYIN’ HIGH is an ozone-guzzling 45-minute show, unashamedly awash with stunning costumes, gorgeous hair and age-defying make-up. So, buckle up for some divine turbulence . . . Rocco D’Amore – King of Kings, an Italian stallion, swooner of all creatures – great & small. Going back to his Sicilian roots, Rocco D’s Italian gallant performances are numero uno. Elvira – Italian folk singer extraordinaire, singing old Italian favourites much to the dismay of our parents but to the cheers of patrons! That’s la vita for you!

Signora Gessica – A main stayer Signora Gessica’s sweet, experienced yet always vibrant performances rightly live up to her the title of Queen of Queens. Blonde, blue eyes & raunchy – a typical Italian woman! Duo Combo – ‘old timer’ Italian band strutting old Italian favourites; ensure comfy shoes for the many tarantellas!