Conference Bios
About Alice Rainka
Teacher - Burlesque Dance RoutineAlice owns Alice's Fitness and Dance in Sturbridge, MA. She has been teaching Zumba and Dance Fitness classes since 2012 and has been dancing regularly in shows and competitions since 2014. Her specialties are pole dance, aerial silks, and burlesque, all of which she teaches at her studio! Alice led and choreographed a burlesque troupe in regular shows for a short time at Mohegan Sun, and put on her first full burlesque and aerial show for Christmas 2019. Her 2020 show was, unfortunately, postponed due to the pandemic, but she is excited to get it up and going again!
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About Anabel G
Teacher - Performance WorkshopAnabel began performing professionally in 1960, and since then has acted and sung in night clubs, theatres, festivals and museums. Anabel is currently one half of The Proper Ladies, and their alter egos, The Bawdy Ladies. She, along with two friends, created the original Bawdy Ladies' Book cassette in the 1980's.
She is an accomplished actress, with many theatrical and TV credits. Anabel appeared as Mrs. Merriman in the award winning HBO mini series, Olive Kitteridge, played Ruth in Island Zero, and is features as Phyliss in Free Guy, currently playing in theatres. In 2022 she will be seen on Netflix in The Mothership, a sci-fi film starring Halle Berry.
She has devoted much of her life to the study of voice and was a Fulbright scholar in the 80's, studying vocal techniques in Bulgaria.
About Angie Richer
Teacher - EVA Foam Prop CreationI have almost a decade of experience being on stage involved in musical theater. I am a triple threat who loves to be in the spotlight! I also have six years of cosplay experience, inuding costume and prop construction.
About Ava Fox
Teacher - Tap BasicsTeacher - Circle Skirts Made Easy!
Teacher - Pattern Making - Triangle Bra
Teacher - Pattern Making - Underwear that Fits
She's sneaky, she's crafty, she's sexy AF (those are her initials), she's Ava Fox!
Ava Fox is a Boston-based performer with BeauTease Burlesque. She has performed all over New England with the BeauTease, and has performed at the Vermont and New Orleans burlesqe festivals on her own, and is looking to travel more and meet other performers!
About Betty Blaize
Teacher - Belly Dance BasicsTeacher - The Strategy behind the Sizzle
Betty Blaize, 6' of Fun... is a veteran of the Boston Burlesque scene. She's a founding member of the Boston Babydolls with a background in belly dance, Indian classical dance and martial arts, and... computer science. She's also the web mistress for this site and an ardent artisan, making a substantial number of costumes for herself and the Boston Babydolls.
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About Catty Wompass
Teacher - Story-Based Burlesque: Choreographing Your PersonaJust 44 and a half feet shorter than The 50-Foot Woman and as sexually attracted to frogs as Miss Piggy, this Iowa City-based beauty is the silliest name in sapphic burlesque. She's the co-producer of Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha burlesque — she’ll steal your socks and knock your heart off — she's just a little askew — she's Catty Wompass!
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About Della-Kate Flower
Teacher - Curves R Us: Underthing Creation for the Plus Size DancerDella-Kate Flower is the creepy love child of the Hoggetowne Burlesque & Drag Alliance. With four years of performing and three years of producing under her shimmy belt, The Giant of Jiggle has spread the belly love all over the southeastern U.S.! She is your Florida Burlypicks 2019 Master of Lip Sync and Improv, and producer of Purple Nightshade Productions!
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About Devastasia
Teacher - Drop-in ClassTeacher - Drop-in Class
Teacher - Drop-in Class
A lover all things dark, mysterious, strange and unusual. A promoter of feminine prowess and attracted to all things shiny. Burlesque was a natural draw for her, and she hopes to share this love with the world...one clothing removal at a time.
About Guilted Lilly
Teacher - Get On Your Knees & Blow: Stage Kittening for EveryoneGuilted Lilly has been described as "a classically trained Siren who can switch from musical theater to jazz standards at the drop of a hat." With the face of an angel, the mouth of a sailor (convenient, given her Siren-like voice), and curves that would make even the Goddess of Love herself swoon, this multi-faceted flower of the evening is sure to surprise you. Along with her onstage appeal, she is an expert Stage Kitten who has worked with new performers and legends alike, and is always trying to raise the bar by showing that Stage Kittens should be (and are) a great deal more than just sexy outfits and picking up clothes. Lilly is the co-founder and artistic director of Shakesperotica, a whimsical combination of two of her favorite art forms: Shakespeare and burlesque! When she's not onstage, she enjoys helping the tech experts hang lights, build sets, run cables (she loves a good crawl under a stage), and is always available to help with a quick costume fix. She speaks French, volunteers at a parrot sanctuary, buys glitter ten pounds at a time, and loves to frolic. Lilly has a miniature poodle named Loki and two greenwing macaws named Isaac and Hayes. She makes floral headpieces out of naturally shed parrot feathers, and could talk about parrots for days. She also happens to strongly dislike talking about herself in the third person. Lilly spells her name with three Ls.
About Iridessa Blossoms
Teacher - Belly Dance WorkshopTeacher - Cardio Dance Tease
Teacher - Hot n' Sexy Hip Hop
Teacher - AcroYoga
Iridessa Blossoms is an Internationally known Performance Artist and is making her way around the world one show at a time. She has been stimulating audiences with her unique expression and artistic concepts in variety shows for close to a decade. She is known for her pop n' lock isolations and hybrid style of belly dance. She is multi- talented and her signature style is broad, diverse and ever-changing. While struggling to find her place in belly dance, she found her community while attending the annual burlesque conventions, The Great Burlesque Exposition and Burlycon. She is the founder and former producer of Poppin' Cherries and Eclectic~ Ka and owner of Creative Motion Dance! With her distinguished hips that tease and signature moves that please, she dances effortlessly in an unreal fashion. Sultry and sassy...transforming your senses to a place that is ethereal. Bridging the gap between worlds and transcending time and space, she is a magical goddess in motion! When she is not lighting up the stage you can find her frolicking with fairies.
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About Miss Mina Murray
Teacher - Drop-in ClassTeacher - Drop-in Class
Teacher - Drop-in Class
Teacher - Drop-in Class
Teacher - Subtle Sparkle: Edge-Beading Technique
Teacher - Drop-in Class
Teacher - Caring for Your Costume
Teacher - Get Tight: A Guide to Corsetry
After the job market for glamourous archaeologists dried up, Miss Mina Murray abandoned her Ivory Tower and turn to the art of the striptease. She is a co-founder of The Boston Beautease (formerly The Boston Babydolls) and Headmistress of the Boston Academy of Burlesque Education (B.A.B.E.). Known as "The Educated Ecdysiast" and "The Martha Stewart of Burlesque", she recently published "Miss Mina Murray's Little Book of Better Burlesque". Website
About Mr. Scratch
Teacher - Who's Who in Classic BurlesqueTeacher - BDSM* 101 (Burlesque Dancer Social Media)
Panelist - The Body of Work Panel: Longevity in Burlesque
Scratch is the founding chair of The Great Burlesque Exposition, the director and producer of BeauTease Burlesque (formerly The Boston Babydolls), and the Curator of The American Burlesque Collection. An experienced performer and producer, Scratch is regarded as an expert in promotion, act creation, the history of burlesque, and the diverse aspects of putting on a show.
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About Red Velvet
Teacher - Belly up to the BarreTeacher - Cancan
Teacher - Basic Pasties... and Beyond!
Teacher - Basic Stretching and Strengthening
Teacher - Basic Fan Dancing
Red Velvet, a life-long dancer, has performed in musical theater and burlesque throughout the U.S. and internationally. Red Velvet is proficient in various dance forms and teaches classes in burlesque, cancan, and Isadora Duncan dance. Red Velvet is co-artistic director of a monthly show, DIVA or Die Burlesque, and is artistic director of the cancan troupe, The Velvettes. She has performed with the award-winning Hot Pink Feathers and award-winning Flaunt Follies, Bombshell Betty’s Burlesqueteers, Alegria Samba Dance Company, and was artistic director for the dance group Pretty, Pretty Please. Her burlesque performances have won Judge’s Choice at the 2019 Arizona Burlesque Festival, Most Classic at the 2016 Great Burlesque Exposition and Most Humorous at the 2014 Great Burlesque Exposition. She co-created five full-length burlesque/cabaret/theater productions: Rebel without a Bra, At the White Rabbit Burlesque, Hotel Burlesque, Just Another Zombie Holiday Show, and Dollhouse Monsters. She loves bringing her crazy ideas on stage for your enjoyment. Come and Try a Slice of Red Velvet!
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About Scarlett Letter
Teacher - Preparing to Survive ProducingTeacher - Keeping your Ecdysiast Books
Teacher - The Art of Fabric Manipulation
Moderator - The Body of Work Panel: Longevity in Burlesque
Scarlett Letter has been dazzling the world since 2004 and stunning them even longer. A long time fixture of the Los Angeles Burlesque scene, Scarlett has graced stages across North America and Europe and has won several awards along the way. Also a costumer and producer, Scarlett is known for a dark cold beauty reminiscent of Hollywood Noir and the classic Hitchock heroine.
"With 4 feet of red hair and miles of bad intentions"
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About Sheila Starr Siani
Teacher - Sex and EleganceTeacher - Hula Hips Cardio Workout
Panelist - The Body of Work Panel: Longevity in Burlesque
This sensual supernova burned up the stage in 2013 at the inaugural Hollywood Burlesque Festival, taking the title as the first Miss Hollywood Burlesque. Her love affair with dance began as a child with the usual ballet, tap, and jazz. Her intrigue with fertility and courtship dances and interest in the seductive arts led her onto the strip club stage. Siani has blended all of these styles and is an erotic and elegant striptease artist, who drips puddles of sex on the stage.
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About Suprema de la Rouge
Teacher - Rhinestoning BasicsSuprema de la Rouge is a German native, and the Fraulein with a fine Hein. This Jane of all trades is a burlesque performer, as well as Marketing Coordinator and Stage Kitten for DIVA or Die Burlesque. Before Covid, she was a crew member of the BABE Cooperative, and also helped out at other shows all over the Bay Area. A world traveler, redhead by choice, dress enthusiast, and lover of colors, flowers and sparkles, she is the Bay Area’s Babe with the butt and the bling.
About Venus Whisper
Teacher - Fringe Skirt and Belt ConstructionVenus Whiper is a Boston-based performer with background in theatre, costume construction, cosplay, and pole dance. She has recently undertaken an aprenticeship with Beautease Burlesque.
IG: @VenusWhisper
About Willy Barrett
Teacher - Owning the Audience's GazeTeacher - Seducing with the Power of the Nine
The world’s foremost teacher of, and pioneer in, reconstructing the Delsarte System of Expression, used by the early theater choreographers to create the Broadway styles (including the Ziegfeld Follies). Joe's teaching has taken him around the world and he is proud to have taught Delsarte at the National Centre of Dance in Paris, at the Juilliard School, and also at numerous Middle Eastern dance festivals across the US. A great lover of burlesque for many years, he created and regularly performed a stripping gorilla burlesque for several years in Ohio in the late 1980's. Now he looks forward to teaching at the Great Burlesque Expo every year that he can and lends his support to the revival of this beloved, charming art. Website
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The Great Burlesque Exposition supports and funds the American Burlesque Collection, a unique museum that explores the history of The Art of the Tease and profiles its practitioners. The event is three days of spectacular community-building, shows, education, special events,and shopping. The Great Burlesque Exposition is produced by The Professional Burlesque Society, a registered 501(c)3 non-profit founded in 2007.