CLUB PERFORMANCE WORKS 1980-85



John Kelly began his career as a performance artist in the early 1980’s, by working in clubs, mostly in New York’s East Village: The Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, Club 57, Limbo Lounge, The Mudd Club, The Anvil, Danceteria, The Cat Club, 8BC were just some of the venues which allowed him to formulate his process and find his voice.

Though he began to look beyond the clubs and into other alternative dance and performance spaces by the mid-1980’s, he still continued to make appearances at the annual Wigstock Festival, as well as occasionally acting in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus at the Pyramid Club (Directed by Kestitus Nakas), in John Jesurun’s weekly serialized work Chang in A Void Moon, or in dancing and choreographic stints with the Original Trockadero Gloxinia Ballet Company (the ORIGINAL company, founded by Larry Ree).


PERFORMANCE WORKS IN CLUBS 1980-1985

1985 ST GEORGE KILLED THE DRAGON
1984 PIERROT PIERRETTE AND PET
1984 DEATH OF MARAT
1984 TRANS SIBERIAN EXPRESS
1984 THE DAGMAR ONASSIS STORY
1983 S. SEBASTIANO
1983 NARCISSUS
1983 THE FORCES OF DESTINY
1983 PAS THE KNACHWURST, BITTE
1983 THE MONA LISA
1983 DEATH IN DALLAS
1982 LIFE WITHOUT GRACE
1982 LA DIVINA
1981 MARIA IN RIO
1981 ORFEO
1980 DAGMAR A MACBETTO


CLUB PERFORMANCE POSTERS AND FLIERS