WORKS IN PROGRESS
Dainty is currently developing a number of works in her capacity as a playwright, producer, arts educator and performer.
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Dainty has visioned and curated the programming for Les Femmes Fatales burlesque and performance art shows for 2023. The newest trilogy is the ''Showgirls'' series. Celebrating mid-century showgirls, showbabes, showponies , werking girls, werkin' babes, good women, bad women, tough and tender babes who shimmy and shake and make the world quake. Showgirls is all about our fierceness, toughness, softness, survivorship, resiliency, our joy, our glittered hopes and dreams, our glamour and beauty. It is about honouring our past, recognizing our present and looking toward our future. In this series, we are celebrating the long history of the art form of burlesque and recognizing that Black women, women and femmes of colour, trans , queer and non binary folks have always been part of the unique, innovative, artistic and revolutionary art form of burlesque. Shows: Showgirls! Bump and Grind A classic bump and grind, unapologetic shimmying, shakin’ and werkin’ it show. March 24th Buddies In bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander Street Doors: 8:30 PM Show: 9PM Tickets: $30 https://tickets.buddiesinbadtimes.com/TheatreManager/1/login?performance=2513 Showbabes! We Have Always been Here Showing off and honouring Black and Women of Colour, making our mark on burlesque. May 12th Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. Showgirls! Glitter and Grime Showcasing just how good a bad woman can be. Unapologectic Femme power. June 16th Buddies In bad Times Theatre Dainty is currently visioning and in collaboration for upcoming projects. Including writing and creating Blood And Memory, which is currently being supported by Obsidian Theatre. |
Daughters Of Lillith
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Daughters Of Lilith is directed by Ravyn Wngz and features an all Black woman cast. Daughters of Lilith is the story of six complicated sisters who are bound together through blood, Blackness, femininity, the past and the present. Each sister has a dual nature which is symbolic of the very vital dual nature in all women. It is a story about how Black women survive love, loss, heartbreak, misogynoir and trauma.
The sisters reunite in the forest, searching for their mother Lilith and for ways to remember their personal and collective magic. directed by | Ravyn Wngz written by | Dainty Smith starring Miranda Warner as Sister Warrior Sharrae Lyon as Sister Witch Amber Williams King as Sister Death Rania El Mugammar as Sister Jezebel Dainty Smith as Sister Wolf Steff Ivory Conover as Sister Daughter associate producer | Steff Ivory Conover stage managers | Laura Swan and Rinchen Dolma make up artist | Trixi Jones costume designer | Brooke Alviano Sound design | Nic Murray |
