Diana Lozano, Belaxis Buil ( center) and Rosie Herra during monologue ( written by Buil).
Monolgue:
" Ay, a todo mundo le gusto, soy como un caramelito,
como un chocolate de ...HERRshies! AAghh...
Pero yo, yo no vine a bailar, yo vine a limpiar..limpiar me con salsa de Barbeque..
Ay, que rico, que delicia..que Pena!
Lozano and Herra begin to sing " Florida's cosmetic surgery" Theme song.
Excerpt from the Miami Herald Review:
DANCE REVIEW | HERE & NOW FESTIVAL A revealing peek into underground art
BY JORDAN LEVIN jlevin@MiamiHerald.com
DONNA E. NATALE PLANAS / MIAMI HERALD STAFF Rosie Herrera turned in a gutsy performance in Circ X Stripped. » More Photos The Miami Light Project's Here & Now Festival, now in its 10th year, provides a quick glimpse at what's bubbling up in Miami's theatrical underground. That's sexual and pop culture ambivalence, aerial antics and domestic rebellion, to judge from the four works performed Friday night at the Carnival Studio Theater at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts.
Diana Lozano's Circ X Stripped was the gutsiest, most challenging and most revealing -- in more ways than one.
Lozano, who presents sexy, outrageous cirque-go-go performances at clubs and parties, turns on her money-making venture with a vengeance. Profitable as it is, Lozano is ambivalent to resentful about the image-obsessed world where clients -- who leave messages requesting things like ''a girl dressed like a cross between a zebra and a cat'' -- care more about her cup size than her artistic yearnings, and the way it pushes her and her dancers into bulimia, anorexia, and constant anxiety about their body. ''I sell myself to make money'' Lozano says flatly. She thrusts the contradictions into the audience's face in Circ X Stripped, making us almost as uncomfortable as she is.
Dressed in latex bikinis and flashing bimbo smiles, Yvonne Gougelet and Heather Carol stroll the audience sporting LED screens showing video of breast enhancement surgery on their chests. There's video of the women answering questions about when they last vomited and what plastic surgery they'll get. Wearing hooker platforms and little else, Lozano, Belaxis Bull and Rosie Herrera do a writhing, Solid Gold-worthy pole dance around and into toilets, miming vomiting and scooping out money. The combination of their near naked, perfectly shaped (they're pros, after all) bodies in an all-too familiar commercial grind, together with everything implied by the toilet, is grotesquely funny and disturbing. Powerful stuff.
Belaxis Buil Featured during with Circ X during " Good Morning Tv Show on Univision"
At Vagabond" Viernes" Miami Herald
Carmel Ofirs' Vagabond Lounge in Downtown Miami
" Las Brujas de Salem" Ballet Flamenco La Rosal
Jackie Gleason Theatre, Miami Beach Director Ilisa Rosal
Special Guest Star Legendary Flamenco Dancer & Choreographer Manolete
" Las Brujas of Salem" was produced, directed, written and choreographed by Ilisa Rosal. Manolete danced and performed his own work and solos. The story retold of the witch hunts, based on true accounts. Rosal spent months in Salem researching at libraries, museums and local sites in which the victims resided. The response to the work was outstanding.
Belaxis Buil and Manolete
In the dressing room with Natalia.
"Nurse Rebecca"
Jo Vila Dance and Productions, Fire Island New York, 2007
Jo Vila's Dance Company in Photo ( left to right) Jay, Alessandro, Enrique, Hector and Belaxis Buil in Center ( Backstage).
Jo Vila's Company is a traveling dance troupe. JoJo, the Artistic Director produces the Choreography, costumes and theme of performances and events. The dance is consistent of technical ballet training however JoJos' work ranges from jazz, contemporary, ballroom and modern.
This photo is of a performance that took place on Fire Island in New York in the summer of 2007.
Ruevue' de Paris Cabaret Dance Company/ Leah- Director/ Allesandro P. Choreographer
Opening of Gem, Miami Beach Jazz Technique/ Allesandro P. Choreographer
Dancing the Traditional Can-Can/ Allesandro P. Choreographer
Featured on Deco Drive
" Memelo" Artist Anamor, Director Juan Marrero
Principals: Barbarella ( JR MArtinez), Belaxis Buil, True
Los Fugitivos PR Music Video " La Rueda"Director/ Camera Woman Milcho
Ico Productions
Performing as Principal " The Queen"
" LA Rueda" Los Fugitivos
Camilo Espitia Music Video " Asi Yo Soy" Directer/ Camera Woman Milcho
Belaxis Buil as " La Perra"/ Principal in " Asi yo soy"
Planned Parenthood Commercial National Hispanic Market/ Principal
Belaxis Buil as " Carmen"
" Conjure Cognac" Video/Director Aram Velazquez
" TACONES"2010 Albita
" Mama Ines" Dance-Theatre/MEGA, Albita 2009
"Metamorphisis" RTL II GERMAN CAMPAIGN
Finese And Runway Sound and Performance Dada Art
Dino Felipe a.k.a " Finese", Melba Payes a.k.a ' Runway and of course I was the conceptual " And". The performances consisted of sounds, choreography, improvisation, sculptures, sculptural fashion and pure dadaist anarchy. We were a sub-culture hit from grungies to art fags. Fans literally ventured out great distances not only to hear the pure ingenious sounds of electronics and sultry female vocals but also the legendary fanatical performances.
Article from the Miami New Times
Hott People Electro-pop duo Finesse and Runway jump around, get down, and break down By Terra Sullivan Published: September 23, 2004
During a recent CD release party for glitch punk Otto Von Schirach at I/O, a crazy-looking couple stood out from the crowd, seeming as if they just left the Greyhound bus station and happened to wander into the club on a whim. He's clad in a neon-splashed tracksuit, fishnet muscle tee, and a ratty, spiky black wig plopped on top of his head. She's got metal wires strapped across her face, tons of space-age makeup, and a shiny dress/shirt contraption with a matching headband.
Terra Sullivan
Dino Felipe, a.k.a. Runway, works the crowd
Terra Sullivan
Dino Felipe shows his ass as a ghostly-looking Belaxis (right) shields her eyes
Where: Churchill's Pub, 5501 NE 2nd Ave Details: 10:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 28. Tickets cost $10. Call 305-757-1807. Subject(s): Finesse and Runway perform during Ladyballs Then Belaxis, a luminous, ghostly presence, appears in front of the crowd with a keyboard, as a chorus of "ass and titties" blares overhead on the loudspeaker. As the crowd edges closer, the couple pop out and join her, revealing themselves as Finesse and Runway. Go figure.
An assault on the eardrums ensues, and the crowd is all smiles. Electro-booty bass is flavored with art-school theatrics throughout a set that includes the dance-friendly track, "Disco Rash." "You're addicted to the disco/Rub it with some Crisco, slip and slide on the dance floor/Turn into a greasy whore," Finesse sings in a voice that resembles Madonna's on "Into the Groove." She and Runway turn their backs on the crowd to do a set of jumping jack claps to the beat of the music, while Belaxis attacks the crowd with her keyboard stand (the keyboard isn't really plugged in).
Finesse and Runway's songs flow between ass-shaking roller-skating jams and chaotic, amphetamine-drenched, Boredoms-like noise as they chase people with strobe lights, roll around on the floor, and basically lose their shit. It's close to watching someone have a fit of Tourette's -- you don't know what will fall out of their mouths next. But it is impossible to look the opposite way because the show is so deeply entertaining.
As the most popular semi-androgynous electro/dance ensemble in Miami, Finesse and Runway are in a class by themselves. By the last song, the audience knows it, too, as they watch the duo pound their fists on the floor, lose their pants, dance bare-ass, and attempt some gymnastic splits for the grand finale, which results in Miss Finesse injuring herself. As it comes to a close, they say to the crowd, "Thank you, thank you, you're all very sexy."
A couple of days later, propped up in her bed with a cast on her leg and slightly medicated, Melba Payes (a.k.a. Finesse) talks during a three-way phone call with New Times and Dino Felipe (a.k.a. Runway) about her leg. "I landed on my left foot when it was twisted all the way sideways," the 25-year-old diva says like a trouper. With a little Percocet and Motrin, she might forget that this conversation even happened. "The three ligaments that wrap around the ankle are torn, and I ripped a few tendons on the top of my foot."
"Oh, pooch!" Dino says in sympathy. The two have been affectionately calling each other that since they first met in the sixth grade. As he remembers it, "I saw her on the back of the bus with a mean face and a Walkman."
"I thought he was a cool kid," says Melba.
Dino laughs, "I thought she was weird," ostensibly because of her love of Skinny Puppy.
While they've been making music together since soon after they met, it's only recently that the two have teamed up as Finesse and Runway, performing for the first time during a party at the Design District clothing store M-80. Now they're gearing up to release their self-titled debut CD on October 19 through Schematic, a label that Dino has produced several recordings for under his own name (including a recent album, I'm You).
The group is a true product of Miami. For Melba, growing up was all about "hot wheels, the freestyle, and the song öDiamond Girl.'"
"The radio when we were little, and then the Miami bipolar-ism, too, and the South Beach glamour," says Dino.
Dino and Melba still live at home just a couple of houses from each other. Here, they get together, and use the software program Fruity Loops, along with computers and sequencers, to make their songs. "I love all sounds, and love being able to make them however we want, and to make them personable," says Dino. Some of the songs feature deadpan, monotone vocals that give away their love of Eighties anthems such as "You Spin Me 'Round (Like A Record)." "Dead or Alive was great. When they came out they were so ahead of their time," he says. "The energy is totally punk. Booty bass is one way to describe it but we just throw in everything. So, each song is different."
Finesse and Runway's shows have earned a reputation for craziness. During a pork and beans-splattered concert at I/O a few months back, Belaxis, who "plays" the keyboard and sometimes appears with the pair, sat in a bathtub full of beans. As the music started, she began lobbing handfuls of them across the room. "Before we knew it, [she was flinging them] everywhere. It wasn't too good for the space," says Dino. Since then, Finesse and Runway have been allowed to play at the club again, but with the warning, as Dino says in a stern, scratchy voice, "No beans!"
Still, the dangerous duo has thrived on the chaos that surrounds its unpredictable style. "I have a lot of fun. I like to intimidate people and kind of scare them because I look like I came out of Hellraiser or something," Melba says. They admit to carefully studying pictures fans take of their performances, making sure everyone in the crowd is smiling, and they proudly note that it's usually "ear to ear."
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Melba Peyes alias Finesse und Dino Felipe alias Runway kennen sich bereits aus gemeinsamen Schulzeiten und wohnen auch heute noch, lediglich ein paar Häuser voneinander entfernt, in der selben Nachbarschaft in Miami wie früher. In der sechsten Klasse schließen sie Freundschaft. Wobei Felipe ...
Melba Peyes alias Finesse und Dino Felipe alias Runway kennen sich bereits aus gemeinsamen Schulzeiten und wohnen auch heute noch, lediglich ein paar Häuser voneinander entfernt, in der selben Nachbarschaft in Miami wie früher. In der sechsten Klasse schließen sie Freundschaft. Wobei Felipe zunächst denkt, Melba sei verrückt, und dies einzig und allein wegen ihrer Vorliebe für Skinny Puppy. Sie hingegen hält ihn für einen coolen Burschen.
Seit ihrer ersten Begegnung musizieren sie gemeinsam in ihren Elternhäusern und später in eigenen Wohnungen. Dino Felipe kann bald schon eine Reihe von Soloplatten vorweisen, darunter das 2004 auf Schematic veröffentlichte Album "I'm You". Hier erschien, allerdings bisher nur in den USA, das gleichnamige Debüt von Finesse & Runway.
Melba und Dino produzieren ihre Musik mit Hilfe von Rechnern und Synthesizern, der Sound des Duos orientiert sich an elektroidem Miami Booty Bass und klingt bisweilen wie eine perfide Kreuzung aus KMFDM und Madonna. Was wohl auch den Gesangskünsten von Miss Melba geschuldet ist.
Live ziehen sie mit reichlich Schminke zugekleistert und ästhetisch zweifelhaften Klamotten wie neonfarbenen Netzhemden eine Show der unkonventionellen Art durch. Ein mit halbwegs künstlerischem Anspruch gesegnetes Posieren, ein durchgeknalltes Tam Tam inklusive Hopsen, Hampeln und entblößten Hinterteilen.
Eine Mischung aus Electroclash und Punk beschreibt den Sound am Besten. Wie die Faust aufs Auge passt dabei der Auftritt von Belaxis, weibliche Live-Unterstützung der beiden und 1A Poserin à la Fahrenkrog-Petersen mit umgeschnalltem Keyboard, das dummerweise (glücklicherweise?) nicht eingestöpselt ist.
Eines der Konzerte mit ihrer Beteiligung gerät in einem Club außer Rand und Band, als Bohnen und Schweinefleisch – ursprünglich als optisches Beiwerk gedacht – unkontrolliert und in geballten Ladungen kreuz und quer durch den Ort des Geschehens fliegen.
Ihren ersten Gig haben sie übrigens während einer Party in einem Klamottenladen namens M-80 irgendwo in Miami. Ihr Debüt "Finesse" kommt im Januar 2005 auch hier in Deutschland in die Plattenläden.
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