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Provincetown :: Wednesday, March 17th 2010
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Ginga Brasileira, a Brazilian dance troupe.
Ghosts, Cross-dressers, Dancers
Ghost Town, Fantasia Fair and a Dance Festival
October 18th, 2009
Ghosts, cross-dressers, dancers – it’s just another weekend in Provincetown, where odd but lovely combinations happen all the time.
| ''They say the dead have come back to claim their town – and that they have come to seek revenge. And so, as you make your visit to the ghost town of Provincetown, just beware of the perils that may lie in wait.” |
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Women’s Week is now over, and the weeklong Fantasia Fair has begun. The transgender event has been taking place in Provincetown since 1975, when it was created to give cross dressers and transsexuals an opportunity to learn about themselves in a tolerant environment.
Today, it features numerous workshops that run from the serious to the playful, blending into the schedule everything from how to handle family and partner issues with how to paint some fierce evening makeup.
The event, running from Oct. 18 to 25, brings many to town who for a week fully immerse themselves in their gender of choice. Townies often call it the week of the “tall ships,” comparing all the men in high heels to the high-masted schooners that often sail through Provincetown Harbor.
Also on the event horizon, visitors will soon be treated to a vision of an alternate Provincetown that became a ghost town after being overrun by plundering pirates. For Halloween, a Ghost Town with live actors embodying the vengeful dead is set to open in Aquarium Mall Oct. 23, 24, 30 and 31.
“Today, locals from the surrounding towns believe that the ghosts of Provincetown’s dead inhabitants are still looking for revenge,” reads publicity for the Ghost Town. “They say that October 31st and the days surrounding it bring a strange and eerie fog, and that blood-curdling screams can be heard piercing the air as angry spirits roam empty streets. They say the dead have come back to claim their town – and that they have come to seek revenge. And so, as you make your visit to the ghost town of Provincetown, just beware of the perils that may lie in wait.”
Joining the ghouls and the cross dressers – and perhaps even a few cross-dressing ghouls – next weekend will be a large number of talented dancers, hailing from a diverse range of backgrounds.
In town for the Annual Provincetown Dance Festival, the performers this year include the Brazilian dance troupe Ginga Brasileira, the New York-based modern dance company Heidi Latsky Dance, Sara Sweet Rabidoux’s Hoi Polloi, the interdisciplinary Kinodance Company, the Indian dancers Rachna Ramya Agrawal and Sridhar Shanmugam, and The Adam Miller Dance Project.
The Dance Festival runs at the Provincetown Theater on Oct. 23 and 24, with different performances on each night. Ten dance troupes will be in town for the event, which is produced by the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and The Adam Miller Dance Project.
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