Souterrain Porte V

It’s been a while since I travelled overseas to perform, so I’m all kinds of excited and nervous about taking to the stage in France next month for the International Body Art Festival at Souterrain Porte V.

The festival runs from September 25 to October 3, climaxing in a fetish, body art & cabaret night curated by London’s own Torture Garden (Meaning there’ll be a lot of familiar faces over in Nancy that weekend!)

It’s at this event that I’ll be performing, once again working with AMF to create some beautiful chaos with flesh hooks and corsets.

AMF performances are always an enjoyable challenge for me. Every time I team up with the driving force behind the group, Louis Fleischauer,  I find myself trying something new, whether it’s discovering the joy of suspending from a spinning rig as I did at Club Antichrist in February, or learning that I am in fact strong enough to handle piercings through my mouth, chest and back all at once, as was the case at the Noise and Blood festival in Poland last year, and of course, I get to do all this whilst wearing Louis’s incredible corset creations.

My feelings about this trip have been pretty mixed, I’m going through a pretty stressful time at the moment and have been questioning whether spending a weekend in another country is really the best idea right now. Things are changing though, and the closer it gets to October 3rd the more I find myself looking forward to it all.