A longtime Detroit performance artist — no stranger to Detroit’s busy burlesque scene — has a show on Saturday that will help bring a 30-year career full-circle. Our Lust Issue presents a fitting occasion to discuss this white-faced absurdist whose sensual brushes with beautiful women have put him in the midst of a sex-positive scene, though the man behind the makeup says he originally intended the character to be naïve and nonsexual.
Metro Detroiters will have a chance to see Satori this week’s big show at the Crofoot. It’s called These Are My Friends, and it will feature Jose Pace, Lushes LaMoan, Scotty D., F.A.H. Corps, the Theatre Bizarre Orchestra, as well as a song or two from Taylor’s lounge-singer alter ego, Konrad Lee.
The proceedings that evening will be immortalized as part of a documentary film with the working title Being Satori Circus. That film should be coming out this September, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of that first Satori Circus performance all those years ago. In a way, the performance will inaugurate a long look back. Taylor says it should get a premiere in time for his planned 30th anniversary event at Tangent Gallery in late September.
These Are My Friends starts at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Crofoot Ballroom, 1 S. Saginaw St., Pontiac; 248-858-9333; advance tickets available at ticketweb.com or at the box office; $30 at the door; 18 and older only.