Clementine
Clementine made her debut at the Boys Club Valentines Ball in 2018, arriving in a storm of colour, slapstick and sequins with a risqué striptease that announced her intentions clearly: she was here to take up space, and she was going to enjoy every second of it.
She is a clown, a compère, a provocateur and a pleasure-seeker. Bold, brash, witty and utterly unashamed, Clementine operates in the territory where joy becomes defiant. Where the body, humour and desire are celebrated loudly and with great relish. Her slapstick burlesque act reclaims both forms deliberately: the striptease and the pratfall, the seductive and the ridiculous, woven together as a single act of irreverence. There is politics in her pleasure, and mischief in her message.
Clementine understands that comedy and desire have long been used to diminish women. She turns both inside out. To clown is to claim freedom through failure and absurdity; to strip is to author your own gaze. In Clementine's hands, these become tools of reclamation and the whole thing is wrapped in enough chaos and charm that you might not notice until you're already on your feet.
Since her debut she has compered cabarets, led walkabout performances, and brought her slapstick burlesque to stages including Kaleidoscope Festival, Mr Sandman’s micro venue at Shambala festival and Buddhafields as part of the Lost Cabaret. She has hosted intimate and small-scale performances across the South West and once held court as host of Bristol's psychedelic cabaret night at The Cube Cinema, a role she was, it must be said, born for.
Clementine is available.
For the right occasion, she will sweep in and compère your cabaret, haunt your festival, host your event, or simply walk amongst your guests leaving a trail of glitter and mild bewilderment in her wake. Walkabout, hosting, performance, she does it all, and she does it in pink.
Get in touch to discuss what kind of chaos you're after.