The Burlesque Artists

These are the acts which we're proud to present to Seattle at Moisture Festival 2009.

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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.
	Belle Cozette Visit website Belle Cozette has been performing burlesque in and around the Seattle area for over three years. She combines effervescent wit and> intoxicating beauty to create narrative masterpieces that tittilate and tantalize the audience. With extensive classical music training and natural grace, her performances include vintage cabaret and burlesque dance movements topped off with captivating facial expressions, gorgeous costuming and slapstick humor.
	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
	Ben De La Creme Visit website As a performer, emcee, party hostess, and event promoter Ben DeLaCreme has appeared in theaters and nightclubs from coast to coast ever since the fateful day in 2002 when s/he realized that normally unsavory behavior could be dressed up in fancy clothes and called "Performance Art." Formerly based in Chicago, but with lucite heels now planted firmly in Seattle, DeLaCreme combines his/her background in the performing & visual arts with a love of spectacle, glamour, and Saturday morning cartoons to create a thick sludge of sparkly entertainment certain to stick to your ribs! When not at home looking for new things to glue rhinestones to, DeLaCreme can be found Emceeing and Performing in venues throughout Seattle, as well as teaching with the Academy of Burlesque.
	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.
	Eric Newton Visit website Eric Newton is an accomplished performer, actor & acrobat, making his second appearance at the Moisture Festival. Based in Los Angeles, Eric performs solo, duo and group aerials, ground acrobatics and character driven comic acts as a free-lance artist and with Eye of Newt Circus, which he founded in 2002. Eric is currently performing in the Cirque du Soleil collaboration with magician Criss Angel, Believe at the Luxor in Las Vegas. He has performed across America and internationally with Cirque du Soleil (Quidam); Cirque Eloize (Cirque Orchestre); Neil Goldberg's Cirque Dreams; and Teatro ZinZanni (most recently as the bumbling Ringmaster and high flying trapeze soloist at Pacific Place). Last year, Eric choreographed and performed as young Canio in the circus interlude in an acclaimed production of Pagliacci at the Seattle Opera, which the Seattle Times declared, “spectacular”! In film, he had a principle role in Ron Howard's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and he, along with the entire Eye of Newt Circus, did acrobatic stunts for The Polar Express. Recent television credits include the Taurus World Stunt Awards, choreographed by Jacques Hiems (Diavolo, KA) and CBS’ Secret Talents of the Stars. He trained trapeze, rope and hand balancing with Chinese master Lu Yi at the San Francisco Circus Center, Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Eloize (with Jacinthe Trembley and Kristof Sorojenski) in Montreal. In acting, clowning and dance, Eric trained with American Conservatory Theatre, SF Mime Troupe, Ringling Bros. Clown College and SFSU. His innovative shows in Los Angeles and beyond have earned him acclaim (Dramalogue Award) and recent profiles in the LA Weekly, on news shows on KNBC in Los Angeles and KOMO in Seattle.
	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.
	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 Fuchsia FoXXX has fused a variety of traditions and experiences creating her own unique hybrid of exotic dance. Pulling inspiration from ancient dance to contemporary musical influences, a background and degree in the visual arts, Roller Derby training in John Waters stomping ground, and 10 Years of Belly Dance performing and teaching, Fuchsia brings passion, decadence and crisp execution to stages across the globe! Currently she performs through GORGEOUS HOUSE ENTERTAINMENT, working as a Solo performer as well as producing group shows and collaborating with troupes, bands and dance companies throughout the US and Canada. She also is a highly sought after dance instructor at "The Academy of Burlesque" (www.academyofburlesque.com), The Academy is based in Seattle and was featured in the documentary film "A Wink And a Smile" (http://www.goldenechofilms.com). Fuchsia FoXXX was the "Bellydancing Vixen" at "The Can Can Kitchen & Cabaret" for two and a half years. During that time The Castaways were Voted "Best of Seattle" By Seattle Magazine & Stranger Suggests "Best Wednesday Cabaret Show", starring Fuchsia as the hot pink vixen in "Kabaret Verboten".
	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.
	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!
	Joanne Klein Visit website Joanne Klein, featured singer with The Moist-ettes, has performed in almost every theatre in Seattle. She has sung in Paris, Costa Rica, Canada, NYC, Los Angeles, Portland, Ashland, Coeur D'Alene, Denver, and Chicago. She acted in a national tour for the Montana Rep Theatre. Her favorite sport is Marc. Look for Joanne at LOCAL COLOR in the Pike Place Market on March 20th, and at JULIA'S ON BROADWAY cabaret show on March 22nd.
	Jonathan Rose Visit website Jonathan Rose’s interest in circus arts began in Mexico, where he was a roustabout in a small, family-owned circus. For several months he served as caretaker of the many exotic animals, including Maurice, the elephant and Pepe, the hippopotamus. When he tired of pounding stakes and shoveling animal dung, Jonathan returned to Seattle and began studying aerial acrobatics at the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA). He dreams of running away with the circus again, only this time as an aerial artist.
	Kellita Visit website Reigning Carnaval SF Queen Kellita descends from a long line of sassy dancers. Her Spanish grandmother routinely danced flamenco on tabletops while her Lebanese aunt entertained vaudeville audiences as The Chocolate Princess with her signature hula striptease dance. Kellita continues the tradition of interpreting ethnic dance through a showgirl lense. While classically trained, it was her introduction to samba, cabaret and burlesque that opened her floodgates of enthusiasm. When not directing her beloved dance troupe, Hot Pink Feathers, Kellita delights audiences with her captivating solo acts. She has ventured a la carte to grace stages from Hollywood to the Big Apple and from Alaska to Costa Rica, leaving glitter and grins in her wake. Kellita was named Little Miss Aftershock (a title she shares with Miss Indigo Blue!) for her outstanding shimmy-shake at the Miss Exotic World Contest and earned a nod to her main instrument of bump n' grind at the New York Burlesque Festival with a Golden Pastie for Best Derriere. Kellita's choreography won First Place in Original World Dance in Carnaval San Francisco 2005 and 2006, and Hot Pink Feathers are winners of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's "BEST OF THE BAY 2008". Kellita is delighted to share the love of samba burlesque and world cabaret dance technique and choreography with students far and wide through the Hot Pink Feathers Showgirl Academy, based in San Francisco, offering mobile classes and workshops wherever she is called!
	Kevin Joyce Visit website Kevin is Creator and Host of the Seattle Channel’s Big Night Out, now in its second season. 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 from 2000-06 Kevin was a principal performer and Director of Teatro Zinzanni, in San Francisco and Seattle. An avid singer/songwriter, Kevin’s CD Say It is available on CD Baby.
	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 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.
	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.
	Sydni Deveraux Visit website Sydni’s been told since she was 15 years old that she has amazing stage presence-but she's an accomplished performer who has given more than just her body to the business of burlesque. Last year she even listed and put out her advice to those who might consider entering the burlesque world as performers. Some of my favorites include #15 “If you can’t twirl, just don’t. Please.” And #13 “If you can’t get past your body flaws for the 3 minutes that you’re on stage, none of us will either.” She talked about costume and shoes and make up and hair, about facial expressions and being on time for the show, the courtesy owed to the producers and the audience but maybe most telling is her advice listed as #11 “Watch a ton of burlesque. Submerge yourself in it. Swim in it! Breathe it. If you just want to take off your clothes in cute little costumes and have men oogle you, I suggest a trip down to your local strip club on contest night to get it out of your system.” 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.
	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!
	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, 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.
	The Moist-ettes The Moist-ette Ensemble is our festival’s newest artistic collaboration. Coming together to open each night of Libertease Burlesque are Joanne Klein, accomplished singer, actor and stage performer, aerialists Lillian Dish and Viola Sugarlump and dancers Rhonda Sable, Tamara the Trapeze Lady, Evelyn Sin Claire, Fuschia Fox, Heidi von Haught, Pidgeon Von Tramp, Sarah Ellis, Montana Von Fliss and Belle Cozette. Wet and wild fun with the damp and dewey darlings of soggy Seattle. The Moist-ettes ... our idea of good clean fun.
	The 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!
	The 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.
	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!
	TriBellas Belly Dancers Visit website TriBellas is a Tribal Fusion Belly Dance trio taking the Seattle/South Puget Sound region by storm. Members - Christina Amadeo, Janice Hodge and Juwana Hodge create unique and dynamic choreography from their extensive dance training. TriBellas likes to explore and discover new ways to infuse ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tango, salsa, lyrical and other dance styles with belly dance to showcase tribal fusion and captivate audiences with an explosion of entertainment!
	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 It is a little known fact that this unique show band is made up almost entirely of actual kings! True, some earned their crowns only in online video games and simulated communities and the rest gained their titles by winning childhood free-for-all contests and such but ... um ... well, okay, forget the "King" part of the name. It's the "Zebra" part that really matters. Those jackets (white with black stripes, not the other way around) are not bestowed lightly. The mystique surrounding the jackets sometimes misdirects the attention which should be properly placed on the music that this proud band produces. The music itself ... ut oh ... I'm out of space ... sorry