Moisture Festival

Adrienne Jack-Sands has been involved in performance art since childhood, playing violin from age six and viola since she was 12. At the American Ballet Theatre school in New York City she trained in classical...

Blanche DeBris

American Treasure Blanche DeBris is exceedingly tingly to have been asked back to the Moisture Festival, the place of her burlesque birth in 2008. Miss DeBris has been entertaining herself and occasionally...

Caela Bailey

Caela Bailey is a Seattle-based chanteuse, dancer and all around entertainer. A natural performer with formidable stage presence, she’s been performing and touring with her family’s vaudeville troupe,...

Duo Flor de Piel

Patricio was born in Argentina and has 18 years of experience as a Tango dancer. In 2008 Patricio joined the creation of ZAIA, the first show staged by Cirque du Soleil in Asia. Inspired by the beauty...

Duo Rose

The first American circus artists to perform in Havana, Cuba since 1959 The passionate, romantic trapeze performance of Duo Rose combines unique dynamic elements with aerial contortion. The seamless...

Duo XY

Thomas and Justin met while working on Cirque du Soleil's "La Nouba" and began to train duo static trapeze. From there they moved to Montreal to further their technique and create Duo XY under the direction...

Eartha Quake

Eartha Quake "9.9 on the Richter Scale, it wasn't San Andreas' Fault!" was born and raised in tremor capital San Francisco. Her first brush with striptease was as a cashier at the Follies on 16th & Mission....

Ernie Von Schmaltz

As I'm sure you can tell, I'm a ladies man. Love the ladies. I really enjoy treating the ladies to a real man; a real man that can perform. You ladies like a man that can perform, dontcha? I can be seen...

Evil Hate Monkey

The Evil Hate Monkey is New York City's sexiest simian. As an award-winning acrobatic burlesque legend, Monkey has been throwing his poo at audiences since 2002. He has earned the Burlesque Hall of...

Evilyn Sin Claire

Moisture Festival veteran, Evilyn Sin Claire, brings mouthwatering magnetism to cabarets all around the Northwest. Sinner Saint Burlesque's "Wild Child" is popular for her sultry, sensual and sometimes...

Frank Olivier

Frank Olivier developed his unique off-beat brand of humor in San Francisco's comedy clubs. He was soon sharing the bill with Dana Carvey, Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and others. New York producers...

Fuchsia FoXXX

Crowned the "Hot Pink Habanero" by The Stranger and voted "Seattles' Sexiest Burlesque Performer" (2008) Fuchsia FoXXX is the stand out hybrid of bellydance for the burlesque stage. Entertaining audiences...

Heavenly Spies

The Heavenly Spies began in 2003 and are now celebrating their 10th year anniversary of sleuthing, slinking and sparkling on Seattle stages and beyond. They made their mark in the Neo-Burlesque movement...

Heidi Von Haught

Heidi Von Haught has been involved in Seattle's Neo Burlesque scene since 2004, producing and performing in hundreds of shows across the country during that time. Heidi began her career as co-founder of...

Inga Ingénue

Inga Ingénue, “The Little Blonde Bomb”, holds the prestigious title of Miss Viva Las Vegas which she won at the 2011 Viva Las Vegas International Burlesque Competition, and has been voted one of the Top...

Iva Handfull

Iva Handfull is a modern heathen in the Burlesque world, an albino Grace Jones, both a fashion Icon and rock & roll Diva. She’s co-producer of Discontinued Trim Productions, producing Burlesque shows...

J. Von Stratton

J. Von Stratton has been delighting audiences in the Seattle area for years. She began her career as "The Doe-Eyed Darling" Honey D. Luxe, in the critically acclaimed Atomic Bombshells (www.theatomicbombshells.com)....

Kevin Joyce

Kevin is Creator and Host of the variety show Big Night Out on the Seattle Channel. With his wife Martha Enson he runs EnJoy Productions, which produces live entertainment for corporate and special events,...

Lily Verlaine

“A living, breathing work of art,” Lily Verlaine is a classical ballet dancer and burlesque artist. She has studied at San Francisco Ballet and other notable schools with some of the most beloved names...

Liza Rose

Since settling in Seattle in 2008, Liza has worked with the Aerialistas, Manifold Motion, the Atomic Bombshells, Lily Verlaine, the Seattle Erotic Art Festival, the Moisture Festival, cellist Zoe Keating,...

Luminous Pariah

Luminous is a Seattle-based internationally recognized burlesque ingénue who celebrates life through multidisciplinary performance art. A brilliant mélange of saucy satire, witty comedy, avant garde...

Madame X and her Lawyer

Mme X is just back from traveling around the world in a very, very, very slick black stretch limo. It really is a jungle out there. It was so hot… so wild… so many small people. Her attorney is likely...

Maria Margiyeva

Maria was born in Kiev, Ukraine. At the age of 7 she began her career as an athlete of rhythmic gymnastics on the Club Dynamo of Kiev coached by Vera Kremer. A few years later Maria entered in the National...

Miss Indigo Blue

Sexy, funny, irreverent and ingeniously clever, Miss Indigo Blue flirts with the edgy, exotic and erotic fringes of burlesque. Evoking the elegant tease of legend Gypsy Rose Lee, and inspired by the brilliant...

Moist-ettes Ensemble

The Moist-ette Ensemble is the Festival’s very own troupe of ever changing beauties. As the curtain rises, they will once again heat up the stage and intentionally elevate your temperature a bit to assure...

Naked Truth

The Naked Truth show band that will anchor all Burlesque shows and the two Variete shows presented at the Broadway Performance Hall is a new band made up of not-so-new musicians. We expect greatness. Their...

Paris Original

Paris Original is poetry in motion, exuding the graceful elegance of balletic beauty. This international burlesque star calls on his extensive experience in many forms of dance and theatre to craft his...

Persephone Illyri

Persephone Illyri exudes enchantment, adorned in only rhinestones and glitter. With effortless poise and mesmerizing femininity, Persephone thrives at the intersection of modern art and classic burlesque....

Polly Wood

Polly got her start at Miss Indigo Blue’s Academy of Burlesque back in 2006, where she is now the Executive Secretary and Teacher in Training. She’s also on the Steering Committee for BurlyCon, and co-producer...

Retro Verso

Retro Verso (aka Terry Crane & Erica Rubinstein) is a genre and gender challenging partner acrobatics duet that flips our preconceptions on their head. Terry is a professional circus artist performing...

Rhys Thomas

Whether walking up a stairway of blades, gliding along a slack rope, juggling pins, spinning crockery on sticks (for no known reason) or offering other circus-style feats Rhys Thomas’ climb-up, lay-down,...

Sally Pepper

Sally has exercised a dizzying array of vaudeville skills ranging from aerial expertise to hula hooping, tap dancing, stilt walking, tumbling, group acrobatics, and roller skating. Working for years with...

Shanghai Pearl

The Shanghai Pearl is The Tantalizing Temptress from Taipei, Tempestuous Temple of Temptation, and Princess of Pulchritude! An internationally renowned burlesque performer and instructor based out of...

Swedish Housewife

The Swedish Housewife was born in Stockholm and raised a broad. This Sintillating Smorgasbord and Peeler" aka Ginger! is a Seattle based international performer and nationally working producer. The...

Sydni Deveraux

Classic striptease artist and singer Sydni Deveraux hails from Seattle, Washington. She has performed internationally and in such acclaimed shows such as The New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Amsterdam Burlesque...

Tamara the Trapeze Lady

Tamara "The Trapeze Lady"! Gayly spreading love and glitter from above since 1993. Producer of the Fallen Women Follies, the Columbia City Cabaret and the originator of Burlesque Behind The Pink Door, she's...

Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey

Baltimore's Trixie Little and The Evil Hate Monkey are an award-winning, acrobatic burlesque superduo who have been making fun sexy and sexy fun since 2002. Described as "smart, funny and dumb in all...

Velvet Ice

"The Sleaze with Ease, The Tower of Power, the Torrid Velvet Ice" Velvet Ice was born at the old Follies in San Francisco, 1973 in to Rock & Roll Hippie Burlesque. She fell in love with the art form,...

Waxie Moon

Waxie Moon, a gender-blending “boylesque” performance-art stripping sensation has performed at various venues throughout Seattle including Key Arena, On the Boards, The Seattle Rep, ACT Theatre, The Moore...

March 21 - April 14, 2013

The Burlesque Artists