Fat Fashion in Recital is the culmination of a unique collaboration between students of the Fat Fashion elective class at Parsons School of Design, and Tracy Cox, Soprano and Fat Activist. In this landmark event of classical and popular repertoire, Tracy will be performing in gowns created for her by Parsons students under the direction of School of Fashion faculty, Dr Leila Kelleher. Mannes faculty member Cris Frisco will be at the piano. The recital is a joint presentation between the Size Inclusion in Fashion Lab at Parsons School of Design and Mannes School of Music. Fabric for the gowns was donated by Coach.
Tracy Cox, aka @sparklejams is an award-winning soprano and Fat Politics activist hailed by LA Weekly as a “force of nature.” Tracy has sung on stages around the world, having performed with the Metropolitan Opera, L.A. Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Ravinia Festival, and the Györ Philharmonic of Hungary. Tracy teaches, speaks, and writes extensively on weight stigma in the performing arts, and has been featured as an expert in her field in the New York Times and Opera News. She has taught her Body Justice Workshop at many universities and arts organizations, including the Hochschüle für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, Wolf Trap Opera, and Long Beach Opera.
Presented by Parsons School of Fashion's Size Inclusion in Fashion Lab and Mannes School of Music at The New School College of Performing Arts.
Tracy Cox, aka @sparklejams is an award-winning soprano and Fat Politics activist hailed by LA Weekly as a “force of nature.” Tracy has sung on stages around the world, having performed with the Metropolitan Opera, L.A. Opera, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Ravinia Festival, and the Györ Philharmonic of Hungary.
Tracy teaches, speaks, and writes extensively on weight stigma in the performing arts, and has been featured as an expert in her field in the New York Times and Opera News. She has taught her Body Justice Workshop at many universities and arts organizations, including the Hochschüle für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart, Wolf Trap Opera, and Long Beach Opera.
Pianist and conductor, Cris Frisco is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of both classical and popular music.
A committed educator for the next generation of artists, he has served on the faculties of Westminster Choir College, Rutgers University, the Castleton Artist Training Seminar, The New School for Drama’s Summer Immersion Experience, the Westminster CoOPERAtive, the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, and Wichita State’s summer study program in Florence. He is also a member of the coaching and accompanying staff at the New School for Drama and Mannes College of Music.
He is the founder and Artistic Director of The New Voice Project and Music Director for Opera Fayetteville and Opera Sonoma.
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