Fierce Queens: Masquerade

Demi Noire is the soul sista of burlesque. Appearing 3 times in the 21st Century Burlesque Magazine top 50  most influential burlesque artists worldwide, and coming in at no 45 in 2023. A London-based performer who brings sexy, funny, and powerful characters to the world of burlesque and cabaret. A frequent performer for companies such as House of Burlesque, The Cocoabutter Club and Gin House burlesque.

Her credits included regular shows at The Phoenix Arts Club and Cafe de Paris. She has performed all around the world including Chicago for Jeez Loueez  Juke Joint, Tronicat and Friends (GOP Hannover), United Queendom (Stuttgart) and Misty Lotus Presents Burlesque Extravaganza, to name a few.

Demi Noire prides herself on making her audience scream and shout while injecting the space with sass and style.

Drag artist, performer, host, producer & educator, Dita Garbo is many things.

Returning to Drag in 2021 after 20 years when she first started working as a drag artist in Madrid, she soon started Punk&Plume’s Kings Queens & Inbetweens, a drag cabaret night which continues today to sell out audiences.

From hosting events, brunches and prides to educating in schools and working with the local LGBTQ+ community. Dita is a performer at heart, living, travelling and working as a professional dancer around the world for over a decade. With her years of experience on stage, Dita is delighted to be part of Fierce Queens 2024.

A vision of excellence and deity birthed into royalty. An international performer and award-winning legend, Rudy will be joining the line up and serving sensual, seductive and powerful, non binary finery energy!!!

Christian Adore’ and 'Eaton Messe' are a drag double act performed by Francesca Forristal and Ed Scrivens. 

Using your suggestions, this formidable pairing of lovable soft-boy and sassy queen will create dazzling songs, sketches, and spontaneous raps. RuPaul's glamour meets ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’ style improvised comedy. 

Serving you wit as sharp as their contour; jinks as high as their brows; memories that will stick with you longer than last night’s glitter, we present to you 'The Dragprov Revue’.

Lasana Shabazz is an interdisciplinary performance artist whose work delves deep into identity politics, deconstructing ideas of race, sexuality, class and gender, queering the norm of what is considered acceptable by mainstream and popular culture.

Their work incorporates theatre, dance, spoken word, visual art, music production, make up, costume design and construction. They work in art galleries, theatres, arts festivals, museums, educational institutions, black, queer and QTIPOC (queer trans intersex people of colour) art spaces nationally and internationally.

E.M. Parry works with, through and for the queer body, squinting at history, flirting with ghosts & the things that go bump in the margins. Transient and ephemeral, their work flickers between durational performance, kinetic sculpture, drag act and ritual, blurring the lines between artefact & event.

K.A Harper is a multi-disciplinary artist living in London. Creating work spanning music, writing and performance practices, they look at the interplay between history, relationality and embodied queer experience. As part of the Queer History Club at Royal Museums Greenwich they’ve focused on the life of Emma Hamilton and will be recreating her 'attitudes' in a participatory experience.

Eugène Delacroissant is a museum mansplainer who cannot help but queer any heritage site he finds himself in via song, dance and the occasional sword fight. 

Eugène is also a member of the London Historical Fencing Club (LHFC), which in turn is part of the Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) club, training in the lost arts of the Medieval, Renaissance, and later eras. HEMA works from translations of original source texts to reconstruct the techniques and principles of swordfighting. HEMA is unique in that it aims to recreate the reality of historical combat - unlike stage combat, our aim isn't to create a performance. We fence in full protective equipment and using historically weighted swords.

Donald was born in Portsmouth to parents who were in the Navy and will happily greet you with a cheeky “Hello Sailor” whether or not you’re a seafarer.

However, “Hello Sailor’ is in fact Donald’s LGBTQ+ take on salty and spicy tales of seafarers ‘crossing the line’ - in more ways than one.

Donald’s in the gallery and curatorial teams at Royal Museums Greenwich and a safe deckhand, so be on the lookout for the times of his talk as you explore the Queen's House.

Words matter

We have co-produced this event with members of the LGBTQ+ community, who have chosen to use the term 'queer' in the description of the event.

Queer is, as charity Stonewall points out, "a term used by those wanting to reject specific labels of romantic orientation, sexual orientation and/or gender identity. It can also be a way of rejecting the perceived norms of the LGBT community (racism, sizeism, ableism etc). Although some LGBT people view the word as a slur, it was reclaimed in the late 80s by the queer community who have embraced it."