Is it my imagination or are all these documentaries about the new burlesque scene coming out with in months of each other?
Gotta love Dirty, regardless!
-ag
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YouTube – Dirty Martini and The New Burlesque-TEASER
Multiple voices chime in to answer the question at this March 2008 School of Burlesque blog post.
Good stuff.
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Daily Burlesque: What’s the Diff? Request Your Input!
‘What is the difference between burlesque and striptease?
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The Moisture Festival « Travalanche
Trav SD cites Seattle’s Moisture Festival, running March 11 through April 4 as "the pre-eminent variety arts festival in the country right now."This year’s line-up, he says, "includes scores of vaudeville, circus and burlesque acts, and even some films."
There are apparently lectures and workshops, too. What a dream! Hope it carries on long enough to work into a vacation one of these years.
-ag
Received news in the day job email today about a new fringe festival launching in Allentown, Pa.
The inaugural event appears to be sponsored in part by Allentown Public Theatre and will be held at multiple venues June 18-19.
According to the press announcement, this event "showcasing performers and artwork outside the mainstream" will feature: fire arts performers, hula-hoopers, art exhibits, indie musicians, drum circle, vintage film screening, theatrical performances, and more.
To get an idea of what they’ve already got on tap, visit http://www.AllentownFreakOut.com. The preliminary line-up is not breathtaking (at least in print), but as anyone who’s ever launched an event knows, you’ve got to start with a vision and sketch it out with whatever resources you can scrape together. It’s often only after the community experiences the manifestation of your vision that they’ll get on board, and help build the future.
No word if they’re accepting inquiries from acts outside the Lehigh Valley who’d like to perform. If you find out, let us know.
The organizers are currently seeking fundraising assistance, donations, performer sponsorships, and volunteers. Contact info@allentownfreakout.com for more information.
-ag
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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As fortune and perhaps good dharma bestowed it, Steamtown Vaudeville’s inaugural production was a huge success. We officially sold out two days before the show and after the willing squeezed into standing room in order to be part of this once in a a lifetime experience, we had to turn people away.
The goal was to produce an experience — for it truly was more than just a show — so wonderful that people would be begging us for more and we would have no choice but to do it again.
At this point in time, it appears that there will be another show of some sort. It will be different. It will, hopefully, be just as special even if it lacks that raw adreneline rush of "the first time."
In the meantime, please enjoy our photos of event. We’ll be back with video soon.
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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.
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| The Spectacular Scrantonian Spectacular |
Electric Theatre Company’s Out on a Limb series presents a playful evening of entertainment curated by Jeff Wills and featuring Kate Chadwick, Richard Grunn, Sheridan Grunn, Patrick Lacey, and Billy Rogan.
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
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.
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