"En Route to the back of the restaurant, you came across two men – or were they women?- dressed in head-to-toe mesh bodysuits with large headphone-like antlers and gold fringed eyelashes, gyrating to the music in the corner. Perhaps they were meant to be hallucinations?"
 
  Vogue Magazine

"What your doing is the reason people come to NYC… I really want to see your face but because I can’t, I can really feel who you are and your personality & I love it!

  Underage Club-goer

No, you are not hallucinating. It’s fantastical and flamboyant The AlieNatioN, a fiercely creative extraterrestrial duo who have quickly taken Manhattan by storm. The AlieNatioN is a community of aliens who have arrived in New York City from another galaxy creating a sensation wherever their glitterazzi tentacles take them. The AlieNatioN are haunting yet beautiful; elusive, yet playful, beings from another dimension. Sightings turn out at worldwide celebrity events, private parties, international festivals, nightclubs and high profile premieres.

Appearing on the scene in 2009, The AlieNatioN launched to an overwhelming response. Quickly, they were nominated for multiple New York nightclub awards, featured in a Vogue Magazine spread, celebrity newswires, on the red carpet for the Paper Magazine Nightlife Awards and posed with the Kardashian sisters.

The AlieNatioN have hosted regularly in NYC at Lavo, Pacha, Webster Hall, DR!P at the Grace Hotel with promoter Lee Chappell, Day Glow, Suzanne Bartsch events including New Year’s Eve at the Delano South Beach. They have performed alongside International DJ’s such as Junior Vasquez, Jonathan Peters, David Berrie, Sean Tyas, Giussepe Ottaviani, Dash Berlin, Jason Ojeda, Robbie Rivera, M.I.K.E. & Thrillseekers. Breaking barriers appearing at corporate and branding events, The AlieNatioN have worked with Bacardi, Dos Equis, Hendricks Gin, Three O’s Vodka, The Explorer’s Club and Ripley’s Believe It or Not Times Square Museum, to name a few. In the realm of Dance and Theater, The AlieNatioN have created two experimental performance pieces to date exploring alien movement with multi-media projections in collaboration with WetCircuit and Forward Motion Theater, as well as a week-long festival in Hangzhou, China.

In March 2011, to a tremendous turnout and response, The AlieNatioN presented a sneak preview of their club dance single titled "Get Abducted" produced by Michele Darling (Electro-Funk-House band Girls Like Bass)and Hector Perez. At CIELO NYC, a club revered for its unmatched music & dance crowd, the song was performed by The AlieNatioN character ‘The Illuminator’ and enhanced by a full blown AlieNatioN themed night. The performance included a live on stage alien abduction (in the most other-worldly way imaginable) and a newborn alien was released onto the dancefloor!

The forces behind The AlieNatioN are Hector Perez, the Alchemist Designer, and Raquel "Rocky" Giberstein, the Intergalactic Manager.  Hector and Raquel have two decades of collaborative projects under their belt.  The first being the feature film, Party Girl, one of Parker Posey's debuts.  Their joint projects include; providing fantasy creatures for PHISH concerts at Madison Square Garden, American Airlines Miami Theater and Limestone, Mini-PopStars --an all little person impersonator show, Marc Jacobs’ annual holiday extravaganzas (produced by AntiGravity) and hundreds of exclusive events.

According to the creative Alien duo, audiences of all genders and preferences, are downright aroused. "I get hit on more as an alien," Perez reveals. "People discover a fetish they don’t even know they have until that moment," Giberstein adds. Giberstein remembers a businessman who asked her out based solely on the way she moved her tentacles, "I told him to give me his card," she recalls. "I extended my tentacle and he slipped his card inside!" Perez, dressed as the triple-breasted "Lact-Alien," once wound up in the lap of a Hassidic Jewish man celebrating his 21st birthday. "I think it breaks down the barriers for people because we’re not human," Giberstein explains. "There’s no stigma."

The Aliens have big plans for 2011. On May 22nd, The AlieNatioN present their very first full throttle intergalactic Alien night "Do You Want to Get Abducted?" at Mehanata on the Lower East Side, NYC.

Hector Perez , The AlieNatioN Creator

Hector’s partnership as in-house designer with Raquel's management and consulting company Rock>L Productions peaked with the advent of The AlieNatioN. Perez has created a whole host of alien creatures, all of which have distinctive back-stories and features. Giberstein never ceases to be enthralled by the guises Perez creates. "Hector would go into the lab and not even tell me what it was gonna be," she shares. "He’d say, ‘Okay, you’re gonna be topless this week,’ and I’d say, ‘All right!’" Hector Perez’s design sensibility launched from his passion for both dance and fashion. Born and raised in New York City, Hector studied at the High School of Fashion Industries and Fashion Institute of Technology, moving forward to assist New York City costumer extraordinaire, Shelly Bomb.

In 2001, Hector branched out on his own making one-of-a-kind pieces for Nightlife performers and an assortment of special requests. After seven years of fine-tuning his signature style, he developed the beginnings of The AlieNatioN characters. As a test run, Hector entered a contest costuming himself in his creation the "Blinkarina" Alien and took home 1st place. This confirmed that he was on to something as a performer and costumer... and, poof (!), The ALieNatioN was born.

Through years of involvement in the entertainment industry and The AlieNatioN, Hector’s design division House of Hallucination includes a roster of clientele specially requesting his creative vision. House of Hallucination designs for legendary pop icon Cyndi Lauper, Superstar dance diva Ultra Nate', tiny tribute performer Terra Jole' (aka Mini-Britney, Mini-Lady GaGa & Mini-Katy Perry) and the internationally known aerial performance groups, AntiGravity and Mantryx.

Hector currently resides in New York City with his dog, a miniature Chinese-Crested breed named, Habibi, and a family of sewing machines!