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Performer Branding 101: The Basics
This course will teach you the basics of establishing and marketing your brand as a performer. We'll cover: getting an email address, domain purchasing/hosting, what goes into a performer website, business cards, headshots, social media and more! With almost 10 years of advertising experience for brands such as Microsoft, Glade, Starbucks and bebe - let Shimmy help you get your online life!
Fundamentals of Serving Face and Body
Dress sharply head to toe and experience several exercises designed to work your every angle for an audience of one or a sold out crowd. Formalwear required
Dance Flair & Clean Lines : For Stage Performers
Add pizazz with some fun dance techniques & refine your lines with dancer & performer Gaea Lady! This workshop will teach how to be aware of and extend the lines of your body for the stage to help embody characters, invite grace, and strike clean poses. We'll then play with fun spins & turns, leg extensions, core stability, and fancy footwork to add into your stage routines. Beginner-Intermediate movers of all ages & backgrounds...
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Lilly Rascal's Rock and Roll Workshop
Do you like Burlesque but always wanted to it to have an edge? Lilly Rascal is teaching her Rock and Roll workshop - she will combine rock and roll with classic burlesque moves, using different genres of rock music to teach you kick-ass combinations, across the floor and floor work that will really rip your fishnets!!
Character Development
Want to portray one of your heroes? Have an idea to take on a new persona? No matter what stage of character you are in, Shirley Blazen will help you take it to the next level! Character development is a crucial skillset to elevate your stage presence, enhance your choreography, and nurture act concepts.
Chair and Boa Work
Learn from a burlesque legend! In this special workshop that has been taught all over the country by esteemed BHOF legend and Las Vegas resident Tiffany Carter, you will be guided through using props like chairs and boas to improve your stage presence and appearance.
Movement for Everybody
Ideal for performers with disabilities, those without dance training, big bodied performers, or movers who want to branch out from their training this movement workshop utilizes the principles of Integrated Dance to make your body work for you. Utilized by Candoco Dance Company and Axis dance company, Integrated Dance is a method of individualized technique. We will take a somatic approach to movement and explore three core principles: Intention,...
Fix Your Smartphone Photos
Ever get a photo on your Smartphone that you wanted to improve? Maybe the background is distracting? Maybe the color looks funny? Maybe there is a blemish on a face you want to eliminate? You can do this yourself on your phone! Sheffield Belmont will show you how to fix your photos quickly and easily! We will use free apps available for any Smartphone. Please bring your Smartphone with photos you want to work on, and with Snapseed and Aviary...
Pasty Making & Twirling
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3330 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL
In this 90 minute party workshop, make and twirl your own pasties with me! I’ll show you how to make a pair of pasties just like the ones I sell in my Etsy Gift Shop, as well as how I’ve twirled them in six countries (and counting). Let go of inhibitions and join the party!
$33.33
Exhale: Yoga for Survivors of Trauma
Research shows that trauma - or anything that causes "inescapable shock" - can impact the mind and body. Research also shows that yoga can help you manage or even heal the effects of trauma. This class is a confidential, safe space for women, womxn, and femmes. In it, you will learn postures, breathwork, and other techniques in a practice designed to help you develop resilience and remind you that you are in control of your own body. This class is...
Stage Makeup: Highlighting & Contouring
Whether you're an actor, dancer, or presenter, if you're doing it in front of a large group of people, you need to know how to make sure your face reads all the way to the back rows. We show you the How, Where, and Why to highlight and contour. We talk about color theory and how the lighting should affect your makeup choices. We show you how to make your eyes read all the way to the back row - but still look pretty to the front row! You will learn...
Stage Makeup: Eyes, Eyes, Eyes!
Get ready to learn how to make your peepers pop. In this 90 minute class you will learn from one of our Beauty Parlor pros how to enhance your eyes for day, evening, and everything in-between. With easy to follow step-by-step break downs and plenty of time to answer your eye makeup questions. Our classes are fun and informative. You will learn: The natural day eye The trending cut-crease How to easily take your day eye makeup to an evening...
Burlesque Clownesque
Using techniques of body movement, facial expressions, humor and exaggeration, you can become a burlesque clown. The clown comes from within ourselves, from our body's creativity and discovering this gives us permission and freedom to be crazy and wacky! Polly will help you create a burlesque clown through exercises and explanations. Whether you're a clown who would like to discover burlesque or burlesque artist who would like to explore clowning,...
Slow & Tease-y
This workshop will help you learn find the confidence it takes to embrace the sensuality of stillness. Whether you freeze up or freak out when performing, it's difficult to be motionless on stage. Learning to project control and emotion in those moments is an indispensable skill you'll learn in this class. This course is designed to help you channel a strong, slow, sexiness that will help you take your burlesque routines to the next level.
Modeling With Clay
Since the beginning of human existence, we've had this desire to create art to express ourselves, our ancestors grabbed simple mud and shaped it into figures of man, animals, and cultural lore. To this day, we still use sculpture to tell stories, commemorate our idols, and to represent our most important ideals and concepts. From The Statue of Liberty to the Terracotta Army of Qin Emperor, it's very undeniable that sculpture as an art form is very...
Perlesque Classique
Perle Noire is known for her energetic performances, flawless dance moves, and exuberant personality that leaps off the stage almost as high as one of her trademark jumps. Have you ever wanted to learn how to incorporate this dynamic style into your performances? This is your chance, as Perle Noire presents "Perlesque Classique" , a workshop that explores the style that has earned her awards and international acclaim! During this 90 mimute class,...
Learning to Face(book) Your Fears About Social Media
Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world and is still growing. It's not only an active community, but, for many people, it's a staple of their social life. Understanding the ins and outs of how to utilize Facebook's events, messaging, and advertising features can make and break businesses of all shapes and size. This workshop is going to go over the large basics of what you need to know to begin to open your business and...
The Art of Asking
The hoots, hollers, and wild appause from the audience can be one of the most gratifying parts of burlesque. This class teaches an ethic of interaction and reciprocity with the audience, focusing on learning how to earn audience feedback and let the audience know when it's time to cheer. Make your "Wow!" moments land harder, and keep your character up from your first step on stage to the flutter close of the curtains.
Ballet Burlesque (All Levels)
Ballet Burlesque is an hour long technique class where students learn to blend the grace and discipline of traditional ballet with the sensual energy of burlesque. During this course students will learn the fundamentals of ballet technique and how they can use it in all kinds of performance art. Ballet soft shoes and or jazz shoes are encouraged. All levels and genders welcome. Every body welcome.
Cane Technique & Balancing
Learn a no-fail technique for spinning, balancing, and dancing with a cane in this workshop which will leave you able to manipulate this prop with confidence.
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