Les Coquettes: First Bite

November 12, 2010

I’ve been shooting with Les Coquettes for almost two years now, but speaking as a fan, our annual Halloween show is not to be missed. This year was no exception, and we extended the fun and nakedness across four performances on two nights. Enjoy some highlights from the show below, and if you like what you see, don’t forget to come out for the Christmas spectacular — The War On Christmas — on December 12th at Revival.

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Our fans are the greatest and many of them arrived for the festivities in full costume:

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Les Coquettes @ Bread & Circus

August 16, 2009

My favourite gal-pals (and a few boy-pals) from Les Coquettes did a little three-day run of a show titled The Long, Hot, Summer.

Illustration by James Smith, based on photos by moi

Illustration by James Smith, based on photos by moi. L-R: Charity Dawn, Dante Inferno.

Bread & Circus was the venue — a tiny little 80-seat venue in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood. It’s much smaller than we were all used to — “backstage” was more of a hallway than anything else, the spotlights were dim, and shooting in such a cramped environment was challenging to say the least.

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The upshot was that I had three days to get it right, so I was able to plant myself in a different spot every night to get a variety of shots from all angles.

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See the whole set on Flickr!

Les Coquettes (Again)

March 4, 2009

I’ve blogged twice before about Toronto’s Les Coquettes, and wanted to share with you images from their latest production, The Beautiful and the Damned.

If you missed the show, there’s good news: they’re doing it all over again on March 29th May 31st! Check out the details of the second run of The Beautiful and the Damned on the Facebook event page, and buy your tickets here. Perhaps they should switch the name to The Damned and the Beautiful?

I’ve had a great time covering these performances and was quite proud to see the Toronto Star ran my photo to promote the last show.

The Beautiful and the Damned

February 5, 2009

Photo: vtography, Models: Georgie Gates and Dew Lily, Makeup: Larissa Palaszczuk, Wardrobe Styling: Matthew Stokes, Art Direction: Catherine Skinner

February 22nd is fast approaching, and that means it’s time for another performance from Les Coquettes! Last I blogged about these gals, I had just finished shooting their fabulous holiday-themed show, A Winter’s Tail. They liked me so much that I was enlisted to shoot the promo images for their upcoming show, The Beautiful and the Damned, once again hosted by Revival in Toronto’s west-end. (Everything west of Yonge St. is “west-end” to me.)

Join the Facebook Event page for more info and to see more photos from the shoot!