Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Essence of Essensuality

It was such a fun privilege to be part of Saturday's Essensuality event in New York!

It's difficult to summarize the extraordinary variety of sexy entertainment I got to see and hear... it ranged from luscious erotic poetry to delightfully bawdy songs to upliftingly raunchy comedy to exquisite burlesque and inspired genre-defying performance pieces. My darling Helia Brookes wowed me—and them—with her squirmingly hot "Over the Line" (we were squirming and drooling; Helia was poised and polished).* Amy Ouzoonian, Andy Izenson, Ariel Jacobson, Essence Revealed, Judith Z. Miller, Kim Weeter, Rob Lytle (and other people whose names I can't find now but, damn, how fabulous they all were!); featured performers Epstein & Hassan, Aimee Herman, and Lydia Love; and host-performer Monica Day each had a different method of setting the night on fire with sex and art and laughter. The space was great; and, thanks to MD and the backstage crew, everything ran smoothly as sensuous silk. Plus we got to hang out with Erobintica!

As for my bit: I had sooooooooo much fun presenting the quiz-show scene from Rock My Socks Off as an audience-participation happening. My audience volunteers were absolutely amazing—it's largely thanks to those brave and supertalented individuals that the whole crazy thing worked!

Future dates for Essensuality are listed here.


*We thought we had pictures of Helia reading. When we checked her camera, however, it turned out that the guy whom she'd asked to operate it while she read (cough-cough) succeeded merely in pushing the shutter hard enough to focus but not snap. He has asked me to tell you all how sorry he is.


2 comments:

Erobintica said...

'Twas wonderful sharing the evening with you folks and soaking in all that wonderful entertainment. Mr. E was quite impressed.

Also, the way you manipulated that quiz show host was quite something. ;-)

Congrats to both you and the lovely Helia. A splendid time was had by all.

Jeremy Edwards said...

Thank you, E! Glad Mr. E. enjoyed it as well. Terrific meeting him!