Australian Debut of Kimberly Dark’s Good Fortune Set for 10/29

Lesbian performance artist and raconteur Kimberly Dark of Hawai‘i brings "Good Fortune" to The Butterfly Club for its Australian debut. The one-woman show starts at 8 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, November 29 and 30.

After 15 years of performances and readings, Kimberly Dark has learned a few things about audiences. Through collaboration with six amazing visual artists, Dark reveals these lessons in "Good Fortune," a solo performance in which spontaneity rules and no two shows are ever alike.

Forty-six art images form a ‘tarot deck' from which the audience chooses the show. Each image corresponds with a provocative poem or single story from Dark's 15 year repertoire in performance and print.

Depending on what's chosen, the audience may hear stories from Dark's new work, currently touring shows, or performances that have been retired. The cards' selection, arrangement, and impromptu interpretation ensure that every show is unique.

The beautiful, art-based ‘tarot deck' consists of the ‘suits' most common in Dark's work: Love, Sex, Politics, and Power. The trump suit is The All.

Imagine a performance that is as spontaneous and individualized as a tarot card reading. Imagine the audience's "Good Fortune."

Kimberly Dark is a writer, mother, performer, and professor. She is the author of five award-winning solo performance scripts, and her poetry and prose appear in a number of publications. Dark's shows have twice been named on Curve magazine's top 10 performances of the year and, in 2010, Campus Pride named her as one of 25 "Best of the Best" LGBT speakers and performers on college campuses.

"During the past 15 years, it's been my Good Fortune to share poetry and stories on hundreds of stages near and far," said Dark. "I hope that through intimacy, storytelling, poetry, analysis, and presence, my offerings have inspired others' Good Fortune as well. And finally, I trust in the Good Fortune we create together when we remember that we are creating our own lives, our communities, and our culture."

Tickets for Good Fortune are available online at www.thebutterflyclub.com or at The Butterfly Club on 204 Bank Street (just near the South Melbourne Town Hall). For more information, call (03) 9690 2000.