The new Olympia is born.
A well-rounded sex appeal, trippy eye, pruned beauty. Joy, a radical blonde, appealing to both girls and guys. She stands on the Baron’s glittering stage, the old school Paris chic, in front of Brice Dellsperger (Artist and style director; tendency camp) equally hot video camera. A professional dancer and athletic transsexual, Joy gives her up most and delivers a sulphurous strip, a re-make and a un-make of Baillie Walsh’s video clip filmed for Massive Attack, Raymond Revue Bar, London in 1992. Ladies and Gentlemen: Take a Lift to the 7th Heaven With Miss Sparkle, in which an unknown and unmentioned woman strips magnificently transgender like as if filmed in one shot, in and in front of a luxurious lift. Finding a come back of feminity that has fascinated Brice Dellsperger for a while. Heels and feather boas brought together to dance, filmed and edited, backwards then forwards six times (a 22 minute loop) praisin’ a doubled, arrogant and shiny body encouraged by Dellsperger himself and skilfully mastered by Joy, in a silent, existential and crimson atmosphere. Ladies and Gentlemen: a great cabaret for a small screen.

Alexis Vaillant.