Diane Torr Net Worth

Diane Torr Net Worth is
$10 Million

Diane Torr Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Template:Multiple issuesDiane Marian Torr (born 1948 in Peterborough, Ontario) is an artist, writer and educator, particularly known as a male impersonator and for her drag king, man-for-a-day and gender-as-performance workshops. Torr currently lives and works in Glasgow where she is Visiting Lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.Diane Torr grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland and later attended Dartington College of Arts, England, where she studied with dance luminaries Mary Fulkerson and Steve Paxton, art pioneer Paul Oliver, and theatre innovators, Peter Hulton and Peter Feldman (of the Open Theatre). She graduated in 1976 and arrived in New York that same year. Her first dance performances in New York (Egyptian Stock; Half-Lives of Plutonium; World Shift; Wind Fertilization) were in downtown loft spaces in 1978. Diane Torr took class at the Cunningham Studios, and began her practice of the Japanese martial art of Aikido at New York Aikikai in 1977 and in 2003 achieved the rank of sandan (3rd degree blackbelt). Torr received her MFA degree from Bard College, New York in 2004. From the onset of her career in the late 1970s, Diane Torr has been a leading figure in creating performance that challenges contemporary edicts and perceptions of gender and sexuality. With her drag king workshops, which she began teaching in 1990 in New York, with artist Johnny Science, Torr was a pivotal force in the establishment of drag king culture in the US, Europe, Istanbul and New Delhi. In collaboration with performance artist, Bridge Markland, Diane Torr co-directed the highly successful godrag! Festival(2002) in Berlin - a one-month long festival of women performing masculinity, femininity, androgyny and drag.Torr's performances are a radical synthesis of dance, film (original and archival footage), installation, spoken word, invented soundtracks, and borrowings from other sources such as magic tricks, and secret society signals. Her rich performance palette has resulted in an unusual body of work that continues to influence and inspire new generations of independent artists. More recent performance enquiries cover a diversity of material including: exploring her brother's (who died of AIDS in 1992) performance of Dusty Springfield; investigations on beauty and age; transferring to performance written works of surrealist artist, Claude Cahun.Over the 26 years, Torr lived and worked in New York, she performed in downtown locales such as the Mudd Club, Club 57, TR3, The Pyramid Club, S.N.A.F.U., Limbo Lounge and in art spaces/performance venues PS1, Franklin Furnace, The Kitchen, PS122, WOW Cafe, La MaMa Theater and Limbo Lounge. As a member of the art group COLAB, she was a participant and performer (with filmmaker Ruth Peyser) in The Times Square Show (1980) and as a solo artist at WPA, Washington (1981). Diane Torr is one of the original members of the all-girl art band, DISBAND (along with members Martha Wilson, Ingrid Sischy, Ilona Granet and Donna Henes). DISBAND f

Date Of Birth1948-01-01
ProfessionActress

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Undergrad2004Short
The Undergrad2003ShortBud Braddock
Mayhem1987Short

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Man for a Day2012DocumentaryHerself
Venus Boyz2002DocumentaryHim / Herself

Known for movies

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