The second annual Jim Thorpe Burlesque Festival kicks off tonight with a Gala Fundraiser at the Mauch Chunk Opera House. Here’s what we saw back in October.
-ag
It looks to be a steampunk epic with a spunky girl reporter. rampaging pterodactyls, gun fights, adventures from Egypt to Paris, and tea drinking mummies.
via Luc Besson’s New Steampunk Epic ‘The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adèle Blanc-Sec’ – Nerd Reactor.
Sounds like fun to me. Another movie that we’re mostly likely not to see open in the 570.
-ag
Test driving this piece I made this morning from these gorgeous angel fire agate beads and salvaged vintage champagne pearls.
I generally hate wearing things close around my neck but I keep making chokers anyway. Makes the work easier to sell, I guess.
-ali
I’m really liking the look of this pale-ish pink Sakura flower on the softer more flexible copper ring base I ordered recently.
I think I might need to order a few more. 😉
LOVE this description. I think it might fits the form of my new play AVENGING ARACHNE very well. Would love to hear the thought of those few of you who are now reading the first draft. -ag
Better, I think, to leave the strings showing: to keep sets simple, revealing the mechanisms that underpin them; to write plays that don’t quite fit together, rather than adhering to conventions of plot and narrative; to under-act, adopting as much as possible the rhythms of natural speech. This “Theater of Empiricism” would treat each performance like an experiment;
via Theater of Empiricism | Gwydion Suilebhan.
(thanks to @Papatola for the essay recommedation via twitter.)
What’s the most important talent to have as a burlesque dancer? Just look like you’re having fun. You don’t want to have to try so hard to convince the audience “oh, I love what I do.” You honestly want to be loving what you’re doing. Eye contact and facial expressions, that really helps. Tell a story, in addition to your body movement on stage. But I don’t think you need to have one talent, like being an actor or an aerialist, to justify being on stage. You can be, and bring those elements to your performance and I’m sure it would add to it, but you don’t have to have any training at all. I didn’t take any classes, not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Plaque at Rockafeller Center from 1932 by Rene Paul Chambelian.
Gregarious Expressions 