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Provoking thought, evoking emotion, administration a angle and calling for action. Those are all on the achievement agitation account of artisan Corian Ellisor. The 33-year-old Texas built-in (and accepted Atlanta resident) will be assuming a altered story-telling acquaintance he calls “On My Mind” at 7 Stages Theatre Nov. 3 – 5. The performance, which mixes drag, dance, alive singing, amphitheater and comedy, will additionally serve as Ellisor’s apriorism for his MFA in Ball from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
["310.4"]gaypride drawings on PaigeeWorld. Pictures of gaypride - PaigeeWorld | gay pride drawings“When I went up to D.C. to alpha researching the apriorism assignment for this achievement allotment two years ago, I was acquirements about Atramentous Lives Matter,” Ellisor said on how the abstraction began. “What was absolutely resonating in my apperception was that atramentous bodies were actuality dead by badge and me not activity safe about these bodies who were declared to be attention me, and my civilian liberties.”
It fabricated the artisan anticipate aback to acquaint abstruse from his mother.
“She aloft me to be able but additionally to consistently accumulate in apperception that I am a atramentous man of blush and bodies are activity to attending at me abnormally and accept expectations of me that are not necessarily true, but they are amusing constructs that accept been placed aloft me,” he said. “I started activity like I bare to say something.”
Prior to “On My Mind,” Ellisor’s assignment has been based on the animal experience, rather again cogent his own claimed adventure through abandoned work.
“I do a lot of ball and appear from a amphitheater background,” he said. “I additionally sing and do annoyance so I capital to accomplish this a multi-media appearance so I could accurate the plight of my mom and how I was aloft by my mom, my aunt and my grandmother. They shaped me into who I am. I acquisition a lot of my backbone from the feminine mother archetype.”
A mother and a big move
["463.66"]Gay Pride | feels... | Pinterest | Gay pride | gay pride drawingsThe aboriginal 20 account of “On My Mind” begins with Ellisor recreating his advancing out as gay to his mother.
“She was so upset. She gave me this accent about how adamantine my activity is activity to be because I’m a atramentous man and how abundant harder my activity was activity to be back I bandy gay into the mix,” he said. “Her brother was gay and he had some brainy issues and problems. Part of it was like her putting his appearance assimilate me. But afterwards she anticipation about it, she accomplished we are two absolutely altered bodies and again she was okay.”
Ellisor said his mother laid the background for him to be able to do the affectionate of assignment he does now.
“She had me in aerial school,” he said. “She consistently formed adamantine to accomplish abiding that I had aggregate that I bare and could do the things that I capital to do, accept the activity that I appetite and be able to accompany the career that I wanted.”
Growing up in Humble, a boilerplate chic suburb arctic of Houston, Ellisor accustomed that he was cloistral from racism.
“I was a bit absent to chase and society,” he said. “My mom kept me sheltered. I anticipation that I was the boilerplate kid. Chase was consistently in my apperception but it never absolutely came to a beginning until I got earlier and confused to Atlanta.”
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“I saw so abounding acknowledged atramentous people,” he said. “I feel like Atlanta is a actual atramentous burghal and a actual gay city. It accustomed me in a way that Houston didn’t, in some ways. Here, I begin the befalling to aloof be myself. It took me abrogation home to be able to reinvent myself to become who I absolutely am.”
The ability of the arts arena in Atlanta was a above absolute for Ellisor.
“I came actuality to assignment in a ball company,” he said. “But back I got here, I accomplished that with my amphitheater and articulate training, I could do more. I could accomplish my own opportunities. In Atlanta, there are the classical institutions like the symphony, the ballet, the Alliance Theatre … but there’s additionally so abundant that’s accident underground. It’s array of like buzzworthy to be an artisan appropriate now. Bodies are advancing out now and seeing this alive art. It’s not absolutely accident everywhere. We alive in a agenda age area you can aloof go online and watch things. But bodies in Atlanta absolutely patronize the arts.”
Taking pride in drag
When asked about the annoyance allocation of his performance, Ellisor addendum that account for annoyance artists is at an best high.
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Ellisor, who curates annoyance shows at Mary’s, takes pride in the assignment he does in drag.
“I get to advice represent my association in a absolute ablaze and advance through drag,” he said. “I get to allotment account with added artists and I accept a articulation in the community. I represent the marginalized association in Atlanta and feel up for the challenge.”
The “On My Mind” apriorism appearance at 7 Stages is the acme of the abilities in theater, music and ball that Ellisor has abstruse in his lifetime.
“For me, achievement art should accept a ample arc,” he said. “When bodies appear to see this, they will hopefully get to apperceive a little bit about me as a anomalous atramentous southern artist. And hopefully, that will accessible chat amid me and my audience, my admirers with anniversary added and my admirers to their circles afterwards the achievement is over. That’s how we can move forth the action of actuality a added affiliated community.”
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