“The top
pocket
steampu
leather
Anton’
Anton and Claire Van Der Vyver
of Gordons Bay are performers;
their theme is steampunk and their
fixation is fire. They juggle and twirl
fire staffs, they spin fire poi and they
eat fire to blazing effect. And all the
while they walk around on one and a
half metre high peg stilts dressed in
vintage Victorian a la Sherlock Holmes
steampunk. It has been said that
steampunk is what happens when
Goths discover the colour brown.
Though their period-styled costumes
may hint at a discontent with postmodern society, their creativity and
enthusiasm
also contradict
the
punk
subculture.
Steampunk refers
to a science fiction sub-genre as
well as a philosophy that rejects the
cyberpunk’s postmodern obsession
with high tech. Steampunk is about
Victoriana and mechanics, symbols of
the optimism, ingenuity, self-reliance
and scientific achievements. As author
Cailtin Kittredge puts it, “with more
whimsy and fewer orphans”.
Claire agrees, “For me it’s about the
t
of tomor
a pencha
and per
acts bring
the corse
Burlesque
steampun
and the A
bad-assity