The Burlesque Artists

This is a partial list of the performers scheduled for 2010. More as they are confirmed.

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	Aerialistas Visit website The original aerial girl gang! The Aerialistas are inventive and skilled artists dedicated to bringing glamour, excitement and flirty fun to aerial performance. Their vintage elegance and intoxicating charm will transport you to an era of underworld speakeasies and questionable morals. Poppy Daze, Lillian Dish, Viola Sugarlump, Lucy Rose, Maxine Meringue, and Opal Divine, are pleased to present an exquisite collection of new ladies for this years act. Together these beauties guarantee a night of unexpected delights. Powerful Sexy!
	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.
	Bellini Twins Visit website Their mother was a trapeze artist in The Bohemian National Circus. She was, as they say, a real swinger. Therefore this next act came to see the light of day as one of nature's most unusual experiments. These twins are from the same mother but have different fathers. Please welcome,,,, the Bellini Twins
	Buxom Visit website Cowgirl cabaret duo, Buxom, is formed by cellist/vocalist Ashia Grzesik and guitarist/vocalist Amanda Richards. These two met as finalists in one of Portland’s open mic competitions in 2008. Their outrageously funny and off-color material found them competing head to head for a cash prize of $1,000. Ashia ended up taking home the cash, but the dirty duo was formed regardless for the love of sultry vocal harmonies and beguiling racy lyrics. Amanda Richards’ bohemian country background and fingerstyle guitar-work lays a handsome foundation, while Ashia liberally inserts whimsical alt-cabaret cello lines that will leave the listener begging for more.
	Duo Rose Visit website Duo Rose specialize in a unique and passionate romantic trapeze act incorporating aerial contortion and dynamic elements. Samuel and Sylvia have worked together for almost three years, bringing together their various backgrounds in aerial arts, gymnastics, and contortion to create the act that they now present. Their credits include various weddings, festivals and corporate performances. They have also performed on larger productions including the Zoppe Family Circus and Dreamcast Entertainment’s 2009 cirque style production, “Taganai.” Duo Rose will also be featured as one of the competing acts in the February 2010 International Circus Festival of Albecete, Spain.
Photo by Kevin R Kauer	Evilyn Sin Claire Visit website Moisture festival burlesque 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 downright dangerous portrayal of the femme fatale, but this wild red head cooks up more than just ferocious fare. From Miss Piggy to Le Petit Mort, debutante to dumpling, Evilyn brings a unique character to each professionally choreographed and beautifully costumed act. She dabbles in a little of everything; comedy, classic, political, theatrical, sexy, rambunctious, and avant garde. She loves working with themes, and can be seen regularly with the performance ensembles Sinner Saint Burlesque and Get Loweded and frequently with 4 Horsemen Productions. This year she is very excited to collaborate with Belle Cozette in "Porcelain Promenade". Evilyn is also known as professional belly dancer, Laura Rose, and teaches in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle Washington (http://visionarydance.com/seattle-studio/teachers/laura-rose/).
	Flying Caribe Girls Visit website The Flying Caribe Sisters are Martha Enson and Esther Edelman. Both are founding members of UMO Ensemble. Their have flown together and solo on rope, tissue, bungee, trapeze, lyra and on the high wire. They have performed acrobatics on the outer rim of the space needle at 520’. They are not afraid – but you should be.
	Frank Olivier Visit website 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 spotted his talents, and quickly signed him. He performed his act for the next three years in the Broadway hit show 'Sugar Babies'. Olivier has a growing number of television appearances including The Tonight Show, Comic Strip Live, and shows for PBS, HBO, BBC, Disney and more. He also headlines Las Vegas, comedy and theater festivals, and performs countless corporate shows.
	Fuschia Foxxx Visit website With over 11 years of bellydance performance, Fuchsia FoXXX embodies the sensual, athletic, decadent, intense and powerful persona's on stage as a bellydance-burlesque fusion sensation- voted Seattle's "Sexiest Bellydancer" 2007 & "Sexiest Burlesque Performer" 2008. Fuchsia specializes in combining a variety of traditions and experiences creating her own unique hybrid of exotic dance. Fuchsia has been known to hypnotize audiences near and far with her stellar musicality and unforgettable energy. This jet setter has performed on the T.V. show "Americas Got Talent", in the "London" & "Amsterdam International Burlesque Festivals" & tours regularly with bands. When not clearing security with her pink luggage full of sparkles Fuchsia is a highly sought after bellydance instructor at Miss Indigo Blues "Academy of Burlesque" based here in Seattle.
	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, Honey Sexpot and Fancy Drew. Their specialties include fishing for clues, fishnets, inept guards, garters, lip-reading, lip-locking, secret societies, Victoria's Secret, venom tolerance and vodka tolerance. The Spies can be seen every Friday at 10:30PM beginning in April in their all new show "Plastique" at Can Can in the Pike Place Market.
	Inga Ingénue Visit website "The 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. Ingénue was born and raised in Seattle, where beginning at age two she studied ballet, tap, jazz, modern dance and choreography for dance and theater. Since joining the Seattle burlesque community in 2005, Inga has become an international burlesque star, and in 2008 was honored to compete for the title of Miss Exotic World at the 2008 Burlesque Hall of Fame Competition in Las Vegas. In addition, Inga Ingénue is also an instructor for Miss Indigo Blue's world-renowned Academy of Burlesque in Seattle. Visit www.LittleBlondeBomb.com and www.AcademyofBurlesque.com for more info on Inga Ingénue and The Academy of Burlesque!
	Kevin Joyce Visit website 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, as well as music, videos and leadership training, He was a Co-Founder of UMO Ensemble and a principal performer and Director of Teatro Zinzanni. An avid singer/songwriter, Kevin’s CD, Say It, is available on CD Baby. His daughter Ruby regularly pins him in wrestling matches. She is 7.
	Madame X 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. Now that she is back in sultry Seattle she is pleased to be seeing you at the Moisture Festival Burlesque show again. All of you.
	Manuela Horn Visit website Manuela Horn, the Austrian Amazon, is riding the whirlwind! We're so pleased to have her join our Moisture Festival cast. Manuela is a yodeling, dancing, acting comedic force of nature. Back in 2000 Manuela performed with Pomp Duck & Circumstance, the mother ship of the dinner cirque movement that spawned "spiegeltent" shows like Europe's Palazzos and America's Teatro Zinzanni. She quickly evolved her initially modest role into a beloved and enduring character and in 2002 Zinzanni brought her to Seattle. She became a permanent member of that cast with her yodeling dominatrix and many other memorable roles. The media world has now caught on and Manuela has appeared in the film "Rent" and then with America's Got Talent. She is now recording an Oktoberfest party album, an Alpen Rock comedy album, and a tribute album to the classic yodels of her childhood. She is also performing at October fests and Corporate Events across America Whew! But this spring, here in Seattle, we have her hosting Moisture Festival shows. Don't miss Manuela.
	Shanghai Pearl Visit website The Shanghai Pearl is The Tantalizing Temptress from Taipei 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!
	Swedish Housewife Visit website 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 Village Voice coined her “The Queen Bee of Seattle Burlesque” and named “Reason Number 41 “SHOCK” of the 65 Best Reasons to live in Seattle, by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.
	Sydni Deveraux Visit website Sydni Deveraux "Miss Yum Yum Give Me Some" and "The Golden Glamazon" hails from Seattle, Washington. Burlesque peeler, producer, teacher, chanteuse, host and creative director of 4 Horsemen Productions SIN ON HEELS, Sydni has a tendency to pull her audiences into her glamorous land, only to show them that sometimes glamour is twisted, flamboyant and thoughtful. Towering at 6'1" and sometimes 6'6" in her heels, Ms. Deveraux's ass is like a metronome and smile is like a beacon. With Sydni Deveraux you’ll see a burlesque artist who takes the work of being sexy and fun (and funny) seriously. It doesn’t look like work while she dances and entertains you, and it shouldn’t, but she didn’t settle for natural talent, she continues to find ways to give to the art form and … to the audience. Yum. Called "A Glorious Creature" by no other than legend herself, Catherine D'Lish, The Golden Glamazon's show is not to be missed!
	Tamara the Trapeze Lady Visit website Tamara’s role as a producer of burlesque with a historical interest in the fun side of the art form has surely helped to shape her clever performance. Her production of the Fallen Women Follies in Seattle in the 1990s was an incubator for this town’s thriving burlesque scene. It’s been said that her shows are “not your father’s burlesque” but that they might be recognizable to your grandfather. If so, there’s a fair chance that your grandmother did not disapprove. As Tamara has described it a successful burlesque show then or now is “about as innocent as you can get and still be sexy.” She says of her shows: “Women enjoy it. It’s not all naked, just sexy, cute and fun. Lots of mothers come to see their daughters working ...” She doubts that that’s true of the straight strip clubs where the emphasis is on the grind without the fun. Therein lies the difference … burlesque at its best today has recaptured the joy while retaining the enticement and titillation. She can be seen Saturday nights once a month hosting and performing in her Columbia City Cabaret and starting March 19th you can see her co-starring in "Vamps and Vixens" cabaret at Julias Restaurant on Broadway. But right now you can see her at the Moisture Festival burlesque. Enjoy!
	Trixie Little & the Evil Hate Monkey Visit website 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 the best ways", this talented twosome has flipped-n-stripped on "The Gong Show with Dave Attel," have opened for John Waters, are the winners of the 2006 Exotic World Best Burlesque Duo trophy and are regular late night fixtures in New York City, Baltimore and beyond.
	Waxie Moon Visit website Miss(ter) Waxie Moon is a gender bending queer lady "boylesque" performance art solo stripping sensation. He has performed at various venues throughout Seattle including The Seattle Repertory Theater, Bumbershoot, The Triple Door, ACT Theater (Moisture Festival) and On The Boards. She is a featured performer in "Land of the Sweets, A Burlesque Nutcracker" (performing both men's and women's roles). His solo performance, "Waxie Moon: EXTREME Boylesque"was featured at On The Boards in the Northwest New Works Festival and her original play, Waxie Moon; Boylesque Cinematique was produced by Next Stage. She is featured in the documentary film," A Wink and a Smile" (directed by Deirdre Timmons, Golden Echo Films) and is the subject of the documentary "Waxie Moon" (directed by Wes Hurley, I Ate My Eye Films).
	Zebra Kings The Zebra Kings are the house band for each of 2010's Moisture Festival Burlesque shows. As you can imagine, some of the band members will miss having their regular springtime positions around the watering hole but most readily agreed that this would be a worthwhile and educational engagement and would be worth the sacrifice. Please do not attempt to feed them, wild animals look cuddly but they can also be surprisingly dangerous.