Gregarious Expressions

According to the description at YouTube, director Leslie Zemeckis and producer Sheri Hellard "traveled extensively across the country from the Bayous of post-Katrina Mississippi, to New Jersey, Florida to …record dozens of interviews with little-known performers to the last of the living legends of burlesque."

The documentary is scheduled to open April 23, 2010 at the Quad Cinema in New York City.

Among tthose interviewed are former musicians, strippers, novelty acts, club owners, funny men and women, authors and historians.

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This is what White Mischief’s got coming up in London. I’m loving the idea of these science of steampunk stunts!

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PR Fire | Events / Exhibitions >> Steampunk, cabaret, burlesque, vaudeville, circus, magic and more
The nights theme will be The Great Exhibition, a reference perhaps to the grand and evocative Worlds Fairs of yesteryear. There will certainly be enough to take in, with acts as many and varied as Voltini, the outrageous mad scientist who electrocutes himself with visible bolts of lightning from a tesla coil; Bruce Airhead, a six-foot man who climbs inside a balloon; Keda Breeze, who makes sparks fly with an angle-grinding routine; and Steampunk burlesque acts from Beau Burlington and Meg La Mania.

 

 

The Spectacular Scrantonian Spectacular

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We are crazy super psyched about the inaugural Jim Thorpe Burlesque Festival coming March 27-28.

Sponsored by Dragontown Corsets, the weekend long event will be held in the historic Mauch Chunk Opera House. In addition to a burlesque competition with cash prizes, the festival will also include a Burlesque Bazaar at the Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center as well as workshops and classes.

Hope the resulting film – assuming it gets produced – isn’t as misogynist as the Fun Size Studios inception video suggests. Just look at the smugly pleasured looks on the faces of those men. Ugh. Would breaking free from their tryanny in the end justify 90 minutes of watching women subjugated first?

Maybe it’s feminist in the same way Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is supposedly feminist.

It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been fooled.

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News: Brit Steampunk THE MARIONETTE UNIT Impresses.
Set in an alternate Victorian-era London in which steam driven technology has developed at a ferocious rate and all creative endeavors are strictly government controlled, the film revolves around a dancer struggling to be freed from the machine which controls her movements on stage.