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Elizabeth Marrero

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Elizabeth Marrero (born 1963) is a Puerto Rican performance artist, comedian, and drag king who is best known as Macha, the "papi chulo drag king," a character she created in 1999. [1]

45 relations: Alcoholism, Arthur Aviles, Breakdancing, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award, Character (arts), Choreography, Comedian, Comedy, Cousin, Crooner, Dance, Dance Theater Workshop, Disc jockey, Drag king, Ghetto, Hip hop, Human sexuality, Humour, Hunts Point, Bronx, Jennifer Dunning, Latino, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Lesbian, LGBT music, LGBT rights by country or territory, List of comedians, List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people, List of Puerto Ricans, Master of ceremonies, Matriarchy, Modern dance, New York (state), New York City, Performance, Puerto Ricans in the United States, Race (human categorization), Religion, Solo performance, Stand-up comedy, The Bronx, The Public Theater, Theatre, United States.

Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Arthur Aviles

Arthur Avilés (born 1963) is an American Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer of Puerto Rican descent.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.

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Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, also referred to as BAAD!, is a New York performing and visual art workshop space and performance venue located in The Bronx.

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Bronx Council on the Arts

The Bronx Council on the Arts (established 1962), is an art based culture agency that has grown to become the official cultural agency of the Bronx.

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Bronx Recognizes Its Own Award

The Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) Award honors Bronx artists in a number of categories.

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Character (arts)

A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Cousin

Commonly, "cousin" refers to a "first cousin" or equivalently "full cousin", people whose most recent common ancestor is a grandparent.

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Crooner

Crooner is an American epithet given primarily to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by either a full orchestra, a big band or a piano.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Dance Theater Workshop

Dance Theater Workshop, colloquially known as DTW, was a New York City performance space and service organization for dance companies that operated from 1965 to 2011.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Drag king

Drag kings are mostly female performance artists who dress in masculine drag and personify male gender stereotypes as part of an individual or group routine.

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Ghetto

A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, typically as a result of social, legal, or economic pressure.

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Hip hop

Hip hop, or hip-hop, is a subculture and art movement developed in the Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s.

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Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.

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Humour

Humour (British English) or humor (American English; see spelling differences) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement.

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Hunts Point, Bronx

Hunts Point is a neighborhood located on a peninsula in the South Bronx of New York City.

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Jennifer Dunning

Jennifer Dunning (born February 4, 1942) is a writer and critic for The New York Times on the subjects of dance and ballet.

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Latino

Latino is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language.

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Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes (born April 10, 1968) is a gay Puerto Rican author, scholar, and performer.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

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LGBT music

LGBT music (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender music) is music that focuses on LGBT issues.

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LGBT rights by country or territory

Laws affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or territory; everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty as punishment for same-sex romantic/sexual activity or identity.

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List of comedians

A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour.

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List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people

This is a referenced overview list of notable gay, lesbian or bisexual people, who have either been open about their sexuality or for which reliable sources exist.

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List of Puerto Ricans

This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico (Borinquen), people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican background.

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Master of ceremonies

A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.

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Matriarchy

Matriarchy is a social system in which females (most notably in mammals) hold the primary power positions in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property at the specific exclusion of males - at least to a large degree.

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Modern dance

Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance, primarily arising out of Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Performance

Performance is completion of a task with application of knowledge, skills and abilities.

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Puerto Ricans in the United States

A Stateside Puerto Rican, also ambiguously Puerto Rican American (puertorriqueño-americano, puertorriqueño-estadounidense) is a term for residents in the United States who were born in or trace family ancestry to Puerto Rico.

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Race (human categorization)

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Solo performance

A solo performance, sometimes referred to as a one-person show, features a single person telling a story for an audience, typically for the purpose of entertainment.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them.

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The Bronx

The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.

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The Public Theater

The Public Theater is a New York City arts organization founded as the Shakespeare Workshop in 1954 by Joseph Papp, with the intention of showcasing the works of up-and-coming playwrights and performers.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Marrero

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