In "Trance Atlantic" Leon interprets songs associated with Josephine Baker, Jane Birkin and Marlene Dietrich -- three distinct sexual icons of the 20th century who found their greatest success and deepest fulfillment in foreign lands, across significant bodies of water. Channeling the free-spiritedness of these long-distance ladies (Birkin left England to settle in France, Baker and Dietrich crisscrossed across the Atlantic) Leon explores her own urge to find her identity in a home away from home. With physical expressiveness bolstering her sensuous singing, Leon looks deep within to understand the impetus to travel, to quest (and perhaps to escape) that she shares with her subjects, while exploring the magnetic appeal of so-called exotic beauties, women, who by their very "differentness" become prophetesses of love and creativity.
"She could own the classics with the best of them.
With Trance Atlantic, she proves that she can perform contemporary songs just as well."
BROADWAYWORLD
"She is a knockout --tall, blonde and sparkling with her power to act out a song."
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