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Learn the story of how a repressed Christian Youth Minister swapped out Jesus for Disco and found a new religion on the Dancefloor. Jonny Hawkins was once on the straight-and-narrow, but now they鈥檙e on the queer and wide.
In their early 20s Jonny helped start a church, went to Bible College and was preaching the Gospel in front of thousands of people, but since has become one of Australia鈥檚 most loved DJs, dance floor icon, queer party promoter and a disciple of Joy.
With a stash of five-star reviews tucked in its trousers, Dancefloor Conversion Therapy: A History of Dancefloors and Joyful Regret聽will land in Sydney straight from Edinburgh and take audiences on 鈥渁 sexy romp鈥� that is 鈥渦nmissably, unmistakeably brilliant.鈥� This spring you鈥檒l need 鈥漈his fast-paced, absurdist dark comedy,鈥� which is 鈥渕esmerising, sexually liberating, impeccable, a must see.鈥�
This is a show for clubbers, ravers, party people and all who鈥檝e been born again on the dancefloor. 鈥淒eep down, I feel like Dance Floors are overlooked as a place of healing and community building,” said Jonny.
“We think of them for drunkenness, inebriation and picking up. But there’s something a lot more important there. There’s huge cultural shifts that happen because of them, they’re politically charged spaces of self-expression, liberation and inspiration. They’re places you can both be yourself and find who you’re becoming.
“Dance floors taught me more about myself than therapy, religion or family ever could. Ask any queer person where they first saw a version of themselves they wanted to be. Ask any raver from the 90s what dance floors meant to them. They’re places of social revolution鈥痠f you’re doing it right.
The Show is in defence of the people your mother warned you about.鈥�
奥丑别苍?听12-28 September, 7:30-9:30pm
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