Cherdonna Shinatra

Cherdonna Shinatra is the stage name of Jody Kuehner (born c. 1980[1]), a Seattle-based, American dancer, drag queen and performance artist.[2] Kuehner won the Stranger Genius Award in Performance in 2015.[3] Kuehner has been called a "female impersonator impersonator"[1] and describes her own performance as Cherdonna as "a female-bodied person, presenting as a male-bodied person, presenting as a female".[4] She has been mistaken for a man by some audience members who don't expect to see the "exaggerat[ed] femininity" displayed by a drag persona to be a biological woman.[5] After a performance in Seattle she had her breasts grabbed by a person who expected to find a prosthetic,[5] and she performed onstage several times with a male partner before he realized she was not also male.[1]

Kuehner was artist in residence and instructor at Velocity Dance Center in 2014[6] and part of a 2014-2015 multidisciplinary exhibition at Frye Art Museum in Seattle.[7] Kuehner describes herself as queer.[2][5][8]

References
  1. Christopher Frizzelle (September 10, 2014), "The Inexplicable, Fascinating Cherdonna Shinatra, the Drag Queen Who's Not a Drag Queen", The Stranger
  2. Jason Victor Serinus (June 2, 2016), "Cherdonna Shinatra does it her way: 'Gender fluid' performer shakes off expectations", The Seattle Times
  3. Christopher Frizzelle (September 16, 2015), "Cherdonna, Winner of the 2015 Stranger Genius Award in Performance", The Stranger
  4. Aaron Scott (April 23, 2016), Drag Through The Back Door With Wigs The Size Of Texas, Oregon Public Broadcasting
  5. Rebecca Jacobson (April 27, 2016), "The Surprising Gender Bending of Drag Queen Cherdonna Shinatra", Portland Monthly
  6. Class descriptions and faculty bios: Professional/Advanced Contemporary with Jody Kuehner, Velocity Dance Center
  7. Genius / 21 Century / Seattle, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, September 26, 2015 – January 10, 2016, "an unprecedented, large-scale celebration of exceptional multidisciplinary and collaborative artistic practice in Seattle in the twenty-first century."
  8. Seth Sommerfeld (October 13, 2014), "A Fiendish Conversation with Jody Kuehner (Cherdonna Shinatra)", Seattle Met

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