A PROPOS DE MARIJANE MIRACLE

Marijane aka Marie-Anne :

Bien connue de l'underground pour ses prestations dans les shows de Jean-Louis Costes et par ses performances sur Internet (dont ses 366 films en l'an 2000), elle fût révélée au grand public par les conseils de Miss Trash.

Une série de sketches décalés diffusés sur le web puis à la télévision (câble et C+) dans lesquels elle enseignait, à l'aide de patates et de courgettes, les secrets d'une sexualité épanouie.

Franck Sinistra :

Issu des mouvances punk rock et électro, il a participé à plusieurs formations avant-gardistes dont Fischerman et Geenomes. Il est actuellement le guitariste d'El Justiciero et travaille parallèlement dans l'image de synthèse et le compositing.

A PROPOS DE BORTS MINORTS

"Headliners Borts Minorts defy simple description. See, there's this guy in a hooded white unitard and a headset mic who sings and flails and contorts — he might be an alien or an android, but it's doubtful anything but an actual human would be able to bring such pure and bizarre joy to the stage. Equally enthusiastic are the Borts backup dancers, who flaunt leotards and fishnets (and the occasional pair of lederhosen), and whose energetic choreography demonstrates limber limbs and an admirable appreciation of jazz hands. Borts's music is similarly befuddling, in the best possible way — a combination of samples, keyboards, horns, drums, theremin, slide whistles, a single-stringed bass made out of a snow ski, and god knows what else, but I guarantee you'll not see anything as sense-assaultingly entertaining this leap year, or any other year."

CHERYL EDDY.

"Bay Area bizarros Borts Minorts to do their thing, which is quite unlike anyone else's thing but perhaps most akin to Hanakengo, a dynamic Japanese duo of costume designers with synchronized dance moves. Clad head to toe in hooded white spandex bodysuits, the turbo-powered, rubber-coated Borts Minorts leap, bound, twist, and squeal to a skewed synth pop soundtrack. Throw gleeful backup dancers and a grim-faced flutist into the mix, and you get bewildered audiences all the way to Tucson, Ariz., wondering, "What on earth is this?" What it is might be hard to explain, but, no doubt, it's worth the price of admission alone."

SF BAY GUARDIAN Pick of the week!

"If Salvador Dali had done music he would have paled in comparison to the truly eclectic Borts Minorts. One part performance art, one part manic techno musical extravaganza, all around fantastically mesmerizing. In his trademark unitard, and flanked by his accompanying backup dancers, Borts manages to blend more action into 45 minutes than a full week at the circus. Borts Minorts is Cirque du Soleil on acid, no chaser."

Mike and Jenny Cash (SF WEEKLY).