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Rochelle Fabb performance, theater, film, installation 310.823.6389
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"Fabb holds nothing back in her sexually charged installations. Her body convoluting in the back seat of a car in one performance, her dress covered in blood red cherries in another…her outrageous style is more than simple entertainment. By addressing taboo topics head-on, Fabb sends a message to women around the world: Take back your innocence and be free." - Boston Magazine "Los Angeles based performance artist Rochelle Fabb is crazy, sexy and cool. In the course of her career, which has taken her from Hollywood (where she was part of the Knitting Factory’s “LA All Stars of Performance Art” to Berlin and Marnay-sur-Seine, she’s performed a strip act in a wheelchair and simulated both abortion and the act of giving the Pope a blow job." - Boston Phoenix "A riveting and powerful work…it’s a shocker. 'At First Blush' demonstrates that Fabb has a rare gift for synthesizing the diverse elements of performance art into a singular, coherent language…Fabb gives enormous attention to the arrangements of events within the performing space…massive theatrical power." - Boston Herald "Rochelle Fabb ablutes, self-mutilates, twirls a baton and otherwise acts out in a series of scene-lets about what it means to be a woman. Fabb’s extraordinarily expressive face and body (and the visual imagery she creates) are fascinating. Lots of it is funny, too." - Philadelphia City Paper "And what about the female lust for sex? One felicitous routine featured a young woman (the excellent Rochelle Fabb) and man, presumably on a date in a car. They dance a humorous pantomime of sexual feelings, her body undulating in weirdly erotic movements as if no brain guided them…This piece was blissfully ambivalent, unsullied by a lesson plan." - LA Times "It is the some of the solos that will linger most in memory. Rochelle Fabb entered in a wheelchair, looking like old Miss Havisham at her most decrepit and gradually peeled away layers of clothing to reveal a bespangled strippers body -and she did it without plastic surgery" - LA Times "She
continues to poke fun at everything stereotypically female, from glamour
shots to hysterical suicide attempts to adolescent dreams of baton twirling,
in this humorous yet disturbingly voyeuristic devolution of girlhood,
at the end of which she confesses her abnormal adoration of cherries." “The Flashdance homage a la Nancy Reagan alone may be well worth the price of admission” – LA Magazine “Known for her unique style, Rochelle Fabb juxtaposes innocence and violence with brio. Her representations seduce and transport the public into unknown territories…Rochelle Fabb is truly fascinating” - L’Est-Eclair(FRANCE) "Fabb’s productions are a unique blend of sharp theatricality and subversive, sexually charged and visceral performance art" - Art New England "In ‘At First Blush’ Rochelle Fabb explores the roles and behaviors that our society imposes on women. The show is subversive, hilarious, absurd and ultimately poignant and right on the money – as well as equally entertaining and enlightening for audiences of every gender and orientation." - Stuff Magazine "Fabb uses her body to evoke sexuality (and) delivers an off-kilter view of eroticism that provokes thought and sometimes outrage. Disgust with narrow-mindedness takes on a decidedly abstract edge in Fabb’s art." - Boston’s Weekly Dig "No ordinary muffin in the oven" - LA Magazine "executed with considerable style and emotional feeling…views from the humorous to the sensual and from the spiritual to the absurd are boldly and inventively juxtaposed" - Easy Reader "Absolutely Fabb!" – Retrorocket.com |
