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Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Intimate Passion: Audition - Crazyspace, Los Angeles, Flophouse Festival, June 6, 2003



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This is the first part /half of a six hour performance which happened over two nights for a duration performance festival. Live music both nights was created by Lob and Dr. O. This night was deep fun explicit soft erotic warm juicy sweaty tribal intimate. Who knows what happened during the day between the two parts, but by the end of the second night the woman who brought us there would hardly talk to me. In this video she is one of the juicy nudes. Go figure!

"Wrapping/Rocking" - January 14, 1989, Berkeley, California



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Well, this is really playing with reality. Up to this point we hadn't filmed what happened in THE CAVE because the blindfolded audience members did vulnerable intimate acts while in the cave. But this time we were doing the whole performance for a Los Angeles film crew. And "the audience" were really actors! But the film crew didn't show up! So we shot this ourselves. The first part is in the lobby full of straight actors there for a casting call /audition. I gave each a character to play [I do believe in type casting] and gave them general directions. Then I disappeared into the performance space. The nude dancers then blindfolded each actor and led each into the performance space. The question: did they transform from actors to an actual audience?

Monday, June 18, 2012

Fuck The War Ball - John The Baker & Frank Moore



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Recorded at Burnt Ramen, Richmond, California, November 17, 2001

This was earlier in the show that climaxed with Extreme Elvis and me. Here John the Baker and I sang such Songs as FUCK THE FASCIST USA and CRACK BABY. We had to handle a screaming heckler who ended up coming to my performances over the years since!

Part 1: https://vimeo.com/68404227
Part 2: https://vimeo.com/68444648
Part 3: https://archive.org/details/fuckthewarball

Saturday, June 16, 2012

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, July 23, 2011


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Recorded at Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, California.

This was one of the most sexy, erotic, warm, juicy performances we ever did! Everybody participated, nobody left, a lot of nude dancing including a contortionist! What more could I want?!

Aaahhhh, how can you tell if a performance was a success? Well, Saturday’s performance was the longest night in the two+ years of the Temescal series. And nobody left during the performance, which is probably a first in my forty years of doing performances. And when it was over, nobody wanted to leave. But that is usual. The audience was a real mix of straight and underground creatures in the full range. But everybody ended up nude, except for the former professor who had just been in the hospital. Even he said the performance loosened and opened him up. He provided the music for most of the night. A newspaper called the series a “variety.” I call that newspaper PSYCHIC because we even had a contortionist who did their [they didn’t liked the pronouns SHE and HER, preferring THEY /THEM] dance, which was actually one of the things I always have wanted in a performance. THEY actually danced twice… Once dressed… And then nude, pushing /risking THEMSELF while Nat sang and the professor played guitar. This risking dance rooted /anchored everything, made everything that came afterwards possible… Two Brothers rocking nude together for hours, the straight tree guy rocking nude on my lap… The whole room doing a very juicy explicit ritual of GESTURES [there are always surprises for me… Like I didn’t think LICK EACH OTHER’S EARS would be a controversial gesture, but what do I know?]… The whole room evolving into an explicit ritual of music making juicy fun dancing which all [including the corporate finance guy] melted into together. I pushed the explicit because the two booking women were there and I wanted to get everything out on the table so that we will have freedom to go even further in the future there. They loved it!

More: https://eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-jul2011/index.html

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

"No Tongue Will Live To Speak, No Ears Will Yearn To Hear" Performance, Sept. 16, 1994



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This is the only video of the plays I have directed, actual plays as opposed to performance art. It was shot before there were cheap low light cameras. It was dark back then, THE DARK AGES! We have lightened it up digitally.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, May 2011


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Frank Moore’s The Uncomfortable Zones Of Fun, experiments in experience/participation performance at Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, California, Saturday, May 28, 2011

This one will be evermore known to us here as THE OBVIOUS BLOWJOB!
More: eroplay.com/Cave/uzof/uzof-may2011/index.html

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

"No Tongue Will Live To Speak, No Ears Will Yearn To Hear" Rehearsal, Late July, 1994 [NO SOUND]



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Written by Distant Eagle. Directed by Frank Moore. Camera by Tim Plummer.

Still another rehearsal!

"No Tongue Will Live To Speak, No Ears Will Yearn To Hear" Rehearsal, Late July, 1994 [NO SOUND]



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Written by Distant Eagle. Directed by Frank Moore. Camera by Tim Plummer.

This is another rehearsal.

"No Tongue Will Live To Speak, No Ears Will Yearn To Hear" Rehearsal, July 9, 1994



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This is a rehearsal from when I directed a play by a native American chief Distant Eagle. The play was about a tribe which is infected with a deadly virus when one of the members comes back from the "civilized" world. This tape shows, among other things, how I used nude rituals in the
rehearsal setting to create a reality of a tribal intimacy within the cast.

Written by Distant Eagle. Directed by Frank Moore. Camera by Tim Plummer.

Frank Moore's Shaman's Den - Penny Arcade



Recorded March 8, 2009, Berkeley, California.

This is an episode of my live internet streaming video show, THE SHAMAN'S DEN, on my internet station, luver.com. On this Penny Arcade and I talked deeply about how to cause trouble in the underground as misfit performance artists as a lifetime calling and have fun doing it!

Monday, March 26, 2012

Friction Of Passion Pleasure


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Center for Sex & Culture, San Francisco, California, July 16, 2011

Doing a performance at the new space of the CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTURE is like going home.  It is fully accessible on every level, warm, beautiful, sexy.  Carol and Robert make it that way!

The performance for me was like eating an artichoke, peeling off layers, scratching off the meat off the leaves, waiting to get to the heart of the artichoke.  For the first half of the night I was swimming up stream, revealing blow hards, discovering the truly adventurous spirits, etc.  But things were not really clicking in.  This was even true when there were a lot of people who had come to other performances of mine going back to the seventies.  But I was searching for the release and wasn’t finding it!  Then everything just sank to a much deeper level with the ritual of GESTURES getting juicy, fun, explicit.  Sometimes you just have to keep swinging until the bat decides to connect with the ball!

At the end of the night Sandra the intern who had helped us all night felt to me like she wanted to be inside the performance ritual.  So I dragged into service something that we used to do in my seventies workshop.  This drew everybody left into a tribal body!  About fucking time!

Actually this snapshot says it all about our latest performance!

terrin conto: Wonder how the males who take part in Frank's shows manage not to get an erection, things look like they get pretty hot.

Frank Moore: Well... Because in the context of the performance having a hard-on is neither a forbidden taboo nor a goal, it rarely mmmmmm comes up.

AmoChimy: I wish i can share you

Frank Moore 

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Dave Swan's Doghouse featuring Frank Moore


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Well, in the nineties, Dave Swan had a hip popular takeoff of THE TONIGHT SHOW on the San Francisco public access cable channel. On this episode Linda and I were the guests. Everything went fine until I did my song. Then things took a messy turn... Chocolate, whipped cream, whips, blood, guts, nude dancers, naked monsters! Unfortunately Dave was killed, ripped apart right on camera! But it was a great show, which is all that matters really!

The Living Couple


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Recorded September 29, 1986, Berkeley, California.
In this workshop version which was a couple of months after the first experiment, we see how the piece has evolved.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Erotic Friction


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Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, California, April 17, 2010.

Ah, if you don’t do your best work when you are performing at THE CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTURE where there is a deep base, community, spiritual environment of freedom and exploring, you might reconsider your life work! And the physical theater there is designed to promote a cozy intimacy. This is not to say there are not special issues when you are performing in such an erotic institute of freedom. Like a lot of the people came in with crusts of sexual hip images. These would have blocked going deep within one another. But they very quickly shed these crusts. We then had a cozy room of adventurers who were willing to play softly and be silly together, floating together wherever the performance took us. They took personal responsibility for wanting to go wherever the performance went. 

This caused the night to be one movement flowing freely from one port of call to the other as if we just discovered a different level of where we were just exploring. Usually I just keep throwing out bits and see what catches. But last night it was so smooth! Of course Tomek’s music lubricated everything. But that is always what I depend upon! Last night I may have had one or two or more great plants. That always makes my job a lot easier! But mainly it was the people who came. Actually we ran out of time to get into EROTIC FRICTION. This is why I in my younger days did forty-eight hour performances, and why I do series of performances.

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Playing With Reality, 1988, Part 1



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Recorded November 19 & 20 1988
This is about six hours of a twenty-four hour workshop. My work comes out of the workshop setting. This video is really a rich novel which gets more erotic and intimate as time peels away inhibitions and masks. Some of the characters in this novel are the diva who has a nervous breakdown, Carlos who is literally dying from AIDS as we filmed, a macho business tranny, a sexy film maker who puts her body into her art, etc. This is a raw epic of tribal intimacy!

PART 2: https://archive.org/details/playing-with-reality-pt2-nov1988

Playing With Reality, 1988, Part 2



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Recorded November 19 & 20 1988

In the continuing of the workshop /novel, things get much more erotic and intimate and primitive, going through uncomfortable ritual processes of evolution, of birth, death and rebirth into the tribal body of Lila.

Jean Harlow and Billy The Kid


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Recorded 9/21/86, Berkeley, California.

This is my workshop riff on the beat poet Michael McClure's play, THE BEARD. Btw, McClure has confessed to being my fan!

The Odd Couple


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Workshop at Walden School, Berkeley, California with Jonathan and Suzanna, July 1986.

This is the workshop version of the piece which outraged both the cast and the audience when we did it in Los Angeles. It is still extremely politically incorrect... But it is so warm and tender and intimate!

Going Deep To The Core At Ramen #24



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This was an especially erotic trance jam!

Recorded MARCH 29, 2007 at Burnt Ramen, Richmand, California. FRANK MOORE’S CHEROTIC ALL-STAR BAND with HOP-FROG's DRUM JESTER DEVOTIONAL, CHAOTRON 

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