PARMA VIOLENCE

Parma Violence: Patricia Langa and Sean Murray, are a queer-punk dance duo who have performed and created for a variety of infamous venues and stages. They can be found haunting spaces across the UK and overseas. You may have caught them at Glastonbury Festival, Fool’s Moon Cabaret (Soho Theatre), Stone Nest, Riposte, or at Bristol's Loco Klub.

Both Patricia and Sean are trained contemporary dancers, but needed wilder, more daring licence to express their full queer and punky selves, and in Parma Violence they have created the perfect forum. They are best known for their two famous sets of cabaret roaming-characters - the Sweetie Ladies and the Sexy Lobsters. But they have also co-choreographed and performed the opera Acis and Galatea, as part of the London Handel Festival 2022 at Stone Nest, London. (Directed by Andrew Staples and musically directed by David Bates featuring La Nuova Musica Orchestra). 

Photo from Acis and Galatea at Stone Nest

The Sweetie Ladies are sickly-sweet and grotesque clown-like creatures. They roam around, shedding their costumes to reveal their enlarged bottoms with handy latex anuses. Lucky punters may be invited to slip a hand in and pull out a variety of confectionary treats or perhaps condoms or lube! Who knows!

Costumes by the incredible Lambdog.

The Sexy Lobsters are a pair of funky crustaceans who always bring the pincer-snapping moves to any rave. Interacting with their baby prawns (punters) who they look after and dance with throughout the night, they are a delight to watch perform their miscellaneous variety of dance numbers in cabaret show like Fool’s Moon Cabaret at the Soho Theatre in London.

Illustration by Gianluca Ascione