The Burlesque Artists

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	Babette La Fave Visit website Originally hailing from Vancouver, BC, Babette La Fave is a Canadian burlesque pioneer. An original member of The Fluffgirl Burlesque Society, she left for more ambitious endeavors, to run her own non-profit, theatre-dance troupe called The Empire Follies. The Empire troupe toured the U.S. and Canada and garnished great success and admiration along the way. After four, long, fun years together, each member of Empire went their separate ways to continue their solo ambitions. Babette moved to Seattle WA, joined The Atomic Bombshells and has been performing with them under the moniker, Ivy St. Spectre. Keep your eyes peeled for her frolicking about town with the bombshells, or on her own solo performance adventures.
	Blanche DeBris Blanche De Bris (aka Annette Verdolino) has sung back up for Miss Coco Peru, opened for Cyndi Lauper, toured as "Harriet the Spy", was an original company member of HERE arts center in New York and performed at the Drill Hall in London as a lesbian nun. Currently she is one of the stars of "Menopause the Musical" in Las Vegas.
	Booby Trap Players Performing risquè variety/comedy sketches both new and old, with humorous twists.
	Caela & The Dangerous Flares Visit website From the sultry pipes of their lead vocalist, Caela, to the smooth harmonics and seductive looks of the fiery babes, you will be smitten. The exciting singing and dancing of Caela and her backup singers has thrilled and entertained in the last festival, and they return, served hot again. Rhythm and blues meets comedy/Varietè.
	Chica Boom Visit website Queer Chicana starlet CHICA BOOM takes off more than just her sombrero. This bordertown Chica tantalizes audiences with her vibrant drag and strip-tease. She has been seductively weaving her cultural and sexual identity through burlesque, alternative dance, theatre and street performance across the nation. She performs in the Emerald City of Seattle as a solo siren and has toured the United States and Canada with Burlesque dancers from all over the world.
	Evilyn Sin Claire Visit website Evilyn Sin Claire is a founding member and weekly performer with Seattle's own Sinner Saint Burlesque. She is known for her dramatic and character driven acts, often infused with the exotic undulations and shimmies she borrows from her international belly dance career where is known as Laura Rose.
	Flordigan Can Can Girls In the 19th century, when specific rules of conduct dictated the behavior of young women, most fell into line willingly. For the famed Can Can dancers, the line took an interesting turn. With skirts flying way above their knees, these rebellious women kicked and hollered their way to notoriety. By 1830 the dance was outlawed as immoral and indecent. Though conventions have changed since then, these modern day Can Can girls are no less rebellious. Their sexy, vibrant, exuberant interpretation of this infamous dance will have you shrieking along. Don't hold back! Participation was and is part of the fun.
	Flying Caribe Sisters Esther Edelman and Martha Enson have been working together for longer than either of them will admit. They are founding members of the award winning UMO Ensemble, have dangled together 520 feet off the Space Needle and have flown together on Trapeze, hoop, rope and bungee, as well as soloing on tissue and web. Between the two of them they: Produce and perform in Special events, teach aerial classes and pilates, dance, live on Vashon Island, and are Moms to 2 fabulous girls. We dedicate this show to our loving husbands.
	Hacki Ginda Visit website A suave European gentleman enters the room. Through the blue haze he critically scans the crowd and then ... your eyes meet. There's something there, is there not? It can't be just the over-large glasses, the bowler hat, or the ... um ... evening clothes. No, the mischief in his eye, the provocative stance, and now the determined look as he stumbles on his way to you. Let the others laugh, you know that there's magic in the air along with that confetti he keeps tossing ... and that is only one of the clues that tonight ... YOU will party!
	Indigo Blue Visit website 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 comic wit of Whitney Biennial recipient Julie Atlas Muz, Miss Indigo is more than just a great practitioner of the ol' bump and grind; she enlivens her performances with a heady blend of brainy and bawdy that makes audience's mouths water, as their minds whirl.
	Karen Skrinde Karen has enriched the Seattle music and theater scenes and charmed our local critics with her "unique and amazing voice and comedic intensity", her "scene stealing" characters, her "delightful and hilarious" portrayals. Most recently seen as Sally Cato in Mame at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Karen was also a member of the 5th Ave cast for: Sweeney Todd, The Sound of Music, The Secret Garden, and Camelot. Other local appearances have included: Menopause The Musical (ACT), Angry Housewives (TAG), As You Like It (Seattle Rep), The Shakespeare Revue (Oregon Cabaret Theatre), Nunsense (Bellevue Civic), and The January Book (Seattle Public). We're pleased to be able to present to our audience the "surprising Karen Skrinde".
	Lily Verlaine Visit website "A Living, Breathing Work Of Art" Lily Verlaine is a classically trained ballet dancer turned burlesque artist. She has appeared alongside such talent as Dita Von Teese, Julie Atlas Muz, Dirty Martini and author Andrei Codresceau. Miss Verlaine is the director and producer of the Spectacle Of Ecdysiastic Pageantry, "Land Of The Sweets, The Burlesque Nutcracker" which plays annually at The Triple Door.
	Madame X Rising up to 8'6" (including her top hat) burlesque MC Madame X is one tall drink of sparkling water! - spiked of course.
	Miss Inga Ingènue Visit website Miss Inga Ingènue, Sinner Saint Burlesque's "Little Blonde Bomb", infuses her bubbly personality with traditional bump 'n grind, resulting in an adorable mix of sexy blonde ambition and innocent "ingenuity". Ooh la-la! Mlle. Ingènue, a.k.a. Ms. Sara Carnell, was born and raised in Seattle, where she studied ballet, tap, jazz, modern dance and choreography for dance and theater. Ms. Carnell began her burlesque career in 2004. In 2006 she helped found Sinner Saint Burlesque, one of Seattle's most popular burlesque troupes.
	Nanda Visit website Nanda pumps as much steamy, action packed entertainment as possible into a short explosion of pure burl...esque. Always leaving the audience satisfied, Nanda's motto is; "the audience always comes first".
	Rob Williams No telling what he has planned this time but the last time we saw Rob at the Moisture Festival his act consisted of removing meat from packages, peeling plastic wrap off of cheese slices, putting mayonnaise and mustard onto bread and making a bologna sandwich!? ... Like abstract or dada art, there were many who, upon hearing that that was his plan, had said "my kid could do that." It's not like the guy is without talent. He was one of the famous Flaming Idiots who took their comedy show to theaters across the country and on to Broadway. The N. Y. Times gave them high praise: "They demonstrate what escapist entertainment is all about." (well, high praise to those of us who work in this field of the business). ... did I mention that he made those sandwiches with his bare feet? Yeah, they were clean feet (we watched him wash up first) and yeah, someone ate the sandwich (so did Jay Leno when he did it on his show). But again ... we don't know what he's bringing this time. We just know that Rob Williams will make you laugh at odd times ... and that's an art in itself.
	Tamara the Trapeze Lady Visit website After starting her aerial education with famed Seattle choreographer Robert Davidson, Tamara worked with the San Francisco Circus Center and Seattle's famed UMO Ensemble. Her movement background includes ballet, modern and jazz with an emphasis on improv. In the mid '90s Tamara organized a series of benefit shows styled as "an anything-goes experimental stage for the stripper and sex-worker community". This set of shows went by the name "Fallen Woman's Follies" and it helped to incubate the revival of Seattle's Burlesque scene. Tamara moved on to the Pink Door Restaurant where she created "Burlesque Behind the Pink Door", a series now hosted Saturday nights by Pa Ooh La The Swedish Housewife. Today Tamara shares her time between presenting her popular cabaret shows at the Columbia City Theater on Friday nights and bringing her aerial or floor show to private parties and events.
	The Heavenly Spies Visit website The Heavenly Spies joined forces in an underground assassin training camp outside Topeka, Kansas after finding a common love for both sleuthing and slinking. The girls were kicked out of assassin training after getting caught having a pillow fight in assassin secret headquarters. So they decided to leave the traditional constraints of espionage and join forces in sexpionage. Members of The Heavenly Spies are Agent Rhinestone, James Blonde and Honey Sexpot.
	The Naughty Aerialistas Visit website The Aerialistas, Seattle's troupe of aerial super-foxes, was founded by Lara Paxton in the fall of 2003. Drawing from her top students and local professional entertainers, the group was originally formed to create a full-length aerial show for the Seattle Center's Winterfest. The ladies loved working together so much, they decided to keep it up, and have been striving to produce unique and challenging aerial works that fuse strength, lyricism, sexiness, and playfulness.
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	The Shanghai Pearl The Shanghai Pearl is the Tempestuous Temple of Temptation and Princess of Pulchritude! She infuses traditional bump and grind with her signature Shanghai sweetness. Her range is broad; spanning the burlesque gamut from tantalizing tongue in cheek tease to irreverent vaudevillian vignettes. Always entertaining and full of sizzling striptease, her moxie and bravado is not to be missed! Catch her on a stage near you and allow her to Shanghai your heart!
	The Swedish Housewife Visit website The Swedish Housewife is a Seattle based international performer and nationally working producer. She has been referred to as "The Queen Bee of Seattle Burlesque" by The Village Voice and named as "Reason Number 41 "SHOCK" of the 65 Best Reasons to live in Seattle, by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine. The Swedish Housewife is currently celebrating "21" years as a producer, check out her 5 up coming celebratory shows at The Triple Door starting April 9th. http://www.swedishhousewife.com
	The Von Foxies Visit website The Von Foxies are Seattle's hottest burlesque power-trio: Pidgeon Von Tramp, Heidi Von Haught and Elsa Von Schmaltz. These kinky minxes enjoy playing with the boundaries of sexuality, gender and decency while engaging in their distinctive brand of bait 'n switch bump 'n grind. They adore burlesque in all its forms- traditional bombshell beauty, queer gender-f*ck draglesque, hilariously naughty satire and politically powerful theatre. They are a treat not to be missed. Winners at Miss Exotic World Pageant 2007 in the Troupe division!
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	Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey Visit website Direct from Charm City comes Trixie Little and her nemesis the Evil Hate Monkey! This burlesque pair has performed at Tease-O-Ramah in Los Angeles, The NYC Burlesque Festival, and with Cherry Red Productions' Vaudeville Night! in Washington, D.C. Apparently, a random bolt of lightning turned Trixie into a superhero, her pet monkey into a super villain, and formed them into lifetime enemies at the same time. Witness the battle-royal as Trixie Little fights Monkey Boy and saves the world as only a superhero can!
	Ultra Visit website Ann Atomic + Foxy Kaboom + Ultra are three of Seattle's most gorgeous misfits. They are presenting PANDEMONIA every Friday in May & June at The Can Can. Special guests every show!
	Wade Madsen Wade teaches and choreographs in Seattle and was a participant in the Miss Exotic World competition in Las Vegas under the Boylesque category. Wade has performed on about every dance stage in Seattle, and is a well respected teacher in the community. His lean, quick-witted lyrical movements on stage have inspired many a young dancer.
	Waxie Moon Visit website Miss(ter)Waxie Moon is a gender bending queer "boylesque" lady performer sensation. He has performed at various venues throughout Seattle including, Bumbershoot, On the Boards, The Heavens, The Rendezvous, Club Havana, The Can Can, The Century Ballroom, The Bedroom Club and Columbia City Cabaret. She is thrilled to be performing in The Moisture Festival with his good friends, The Swedish Housewife and Miss Indigo Blue.