Chakra Tease, whose favorite philosopher is Socrates, began as a VaVaVette, with Cora Vette and the VaVaVettes. The VaVaVettes performed at Harrah's for Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend and at the House of Blues for the New Orleans Burlesque Festival. Locally Chakra performs at The Clocktower Cabaret. She has performed at the Colorado Burlesque festival for the past two years and was a soloist at the Ohio Burlesque Festival in 2013, performed and taught at the Great Burlesque Expo in Boston in 2015, 2016 and 2017, performed and taught at Southern Fried Burlesque, and performed at the Great Southern Exposure burlesque festival. In 2014 she became the choreographer as well as a performer for D'Sanez Productions "Feel This Moment" variety show. She was in the 2014 California Burlypicks, the 2016 Colorado Burlypicks, and the Golden Legends Champion Challenge in 2016.    Website

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BIO Egypt Blaque Knyle is a Professional Dancer, Model, Actress and Business Woman, whose been dancing since the age of four. She has traveled the world with many dance companies and celebrity artist. Egypt was employed by Disney for years performing in a host of shows such as The Lion King. She was the principal dancer in the "Chocolate Nutcracker", playing the Egyptian Queen and the Snake Queen also playing Nefertiti and Hepseptsut in a production called "Queens of the Nile Now". Egypt Blaque Knyle has worked in the naughty entertainment field for many years exotic dancing worldwide as a Headliner. Now embarking on a new journey Egypt debuted her first Neo Burlesque routine “The Question of You” in the Monday Night Tease Exotic Titty Prince Review after graduating from the Lili’s School for Wayward Girls in 2012. Egypt Blaque Knyle was born and continued to dazzle with her acrobatic sexiness and sultry tantalizing dance movement. With a very intensive background in dance Egypt “Wows” her audience as the girl who put all the B’s in Burlesque. She’s Brainticious, Booblicious, Bodacious and Bootylicious. Artist Statement; I am so excited to begin my journey in the world of Burlesque. Dance is my love all styles from the sassy, nasty to the classy. The Blaque Siren of Burlesque PERFORMANCES Graduated from Lili’s School for Wayward Girls in 2012 Named the Queen of Assels by Los Angeles Producers Member and original cast of the Urban Fairy tails Creator, Producer and Member of “The Bronze Beauties of Burlesque and the Bronze Beauties of the Bay Monday Night Tease (On going performer) Peepshow Menagerie (On going performer) The Naked Show & Tell (Performer and Host) Vacluse Vixens Show (Performer) Saintly Bomb (Performer) Nerdlesque Las Vegas (Performer) Triptease Burlesque (Performer) Hollywood Jane Revue (Performer)    Website

Flaunt Follies is a group of performers who perform regularly as soloists in the Denver area. For a year they have been a part of "Feel This Moment" variety show, and now they are beginning to branch out and perform together as a Rockette-style burlesque troupe as well.

Born in Rome, Silvia grew up studying ballet from the age of 5. In 2006 she shifted her attention to belly dance, at first performing in Rome with Azadi, and from 2010 with Leyla Nur in Rimini. In 2011 Silvia became captivated by the dramatic and magical world of Burlesque and started studying in Rimini . The year after, as Freaky Candy, she started performing with the Cirque Burlesque Company and in April 2013 she won the title of “Miss Riccione Burlesque Festival”. Now an established performer, Silvia continued her adventure with the Cirque Burlesque Company, performing at many different theatres across Italy. In May 2014 she guest-starred at the Cirque Burlesque Festival 2014, and in June she was selected to participate in the first edition of Como Lake Burlesque Festival, taking part in the “Queen of the Lake Competition”, alongside many international performers. After that she starts her solo career and to study with International Burlesque Stars. During the next months she performs and co-produces a brand new “Extravaganza Show”, with the “Red Silk Dolls” Company and Burlesque Show with national and international performers, in Misano Adriatico/Riccione. On 19th March 2015 she performs out of Italy for the very first time, in Munich, at the International Opening Show of the Munich Burlesque Festival 2015 ( Drehleier Theatre) . Freaky Candy’s international career begins to advance and on 12 June 2015 she debuts in U.S. at the Classic Burlesque Show of the Windy City Burlesque Festival in Chicago (Stage 773). Once back home from the States she is selected to participate to the Amsterdam Burlesque Award 2015 – 22 November 2015 – Sunday Matinee Show ( CMA Zaal). Freaky Candy produces Show and Workshop with Grace Hall, the Italian Queen of Burlesque, in Rimini and Riccione and Burlesque workshops and courses in collaboration with National and International Performers. Freaky Candy’s acts are a mixture of refined and graceful movements, joined with self-irony and humor. Her performances often involve audience participation, which – according to her – is the best way of letting people discover the exceptional world of Burlesque.    Website

Started dancing in the early 1970s My first performance was in Spain loved the Burlesque way of life the people the glamor and most of all the travel .worked all over the Middle East and Europe. Would I change anything in my life no way I am a lucky gal !

Burlington, Vermont’s hottest neo-burlesque variety show, Green Mountain Cabaret is the brain-child of Chicago burlesque sensation, Vermont native, and "Kryptonite to Clothing," Alexa Luthor. She and her burlesque troupe, the Sugar Shakers, are bringing cabaret into the 21st century with a flash of legs, lyrics, and laughs. Glitz, Glamor, Guffaws, and more abound in this cabaret that reminds you how fantastically fun burlesque can be. Green Mountain Cabaret will warm the cockles of your heart (and other areas), while entertaining you with "Sass, Class, and Ass-tromical Local Talent!" Remember, when you visit Green Mountain Cabaret, expect to "Enjoy the View!"    Website

Jacqueline Boxx is the only Tucson burlesque performer who brings her wheelchair, her canes, and her leg braces on stage and makes them both visible and enticing. Her acts are expressive of her experience with chronic pain and limited mobility, and she strives to bring attention through glamour and spectacle to disability. Her extended tagline expresses this intention: Miss Disa-Burly-TEASE.    Website

Jacqueline Hyde – the International Bad Ass who is based in Seattle, Washington. She has performed, produced and educated across North America and Europe. She is the Grand Prize Winner of the Boston Burlesque Expo, Winner of the Crystal Corset Award at the Jim Thorpe / Pennsylvania Burlesque Festival, Ballroom & Latin Top Teacher Award, 5th Internationally for Dance (Lyrical, Hip Hop and Jazz). Jacqueline Hyde has over 25 years of international professional performance and teaching experience in the entertainment arts. Aside from performing, Jacqueline is principal of the Jacqueline Hyde International School of Burlesque and Cabaret Arts, featuring both in person and online course programs.    Website

Lily Stitches has been performing burlesque for more than 9 years. She has toured along the East Coast, performing in Boston, Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, Washington DC, Richmond, and more. In May she co-produced a successful run of her show Stripelodeon. She is the host and veteran performer of The Ink & Paint Club Burlesque.    Website

Maggie McMuffin is a trained actor, holding a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After years of combining nudity with other theatrical genres such as rock musicals and cabarets, Maggie started burlesquing in 2010. Initially a stage kitten for Montana's premiere burlesque troupe The Cigarette Girls, she quickly began work as a performer. In 2013 she headed for Seattle, finding a home among the growing Nerdlesque community. Drawing inspiration from past and present pop culture, Maggie combines comedic flair with the gritty dance moves of 1970’s strip clubs. Known as The Pelvis of Justice, she's here to hip-thrust her way into your heart.    Website

Matt Finish 'The Golden Boy of Burlesque' (Tucson, AZ) is one of the co-producers of The Arizona Burlesque Festival and Don't Blink Burlesque. He is also the Burlesque Hall of Fame's reigning Mr. Exotic World 'King of Burlesque'. Matt has 27 years of dance training including a B.A. from UC Irvine and his M.F.A. from The University of Arizona. He also performed with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (NYC), where he toured internationally. www.facebook.com/xomattfinish Twitter: xoMattFinish Instagram: xo_matt_finish    Website

Co-choreographer and resident femme fatale at the Green Mountain Cabaret, Merrique has been performing Burlesque for four years and dancing for a decade! Sharp as a dagger, smoldering hot and fueled by a love all things curious and vintage, this mean little mama is a wondrous sight to behold! Miss Hysteric likes to shake her sugar all over the Green Mountain State and beyond, performing such venues as the VT Burlesque Festival, VT Pride Parade, Central VT Drag Ball, Peep Show VT and the Art of Horror as well as the Salon de l'Amour et de la Seduction in Montreal. Merrique is eager to whip her viewers into a hysterical frenzy - for who can deny - this Mistress of Madness is truly to die for!

The girl who puts the jiggle in the wiggle, Mimi maShuga has graced stages across the globe from Anchorage to Berlin with 16 festivals under her pastie. She's half of the debaucherous duo behind Make 'em Blush Burlesque, winning second place Best Performance Group via Best of Boise 2019. Mimi was a feature performer in Glasgow and Amsterdam, Ms Gay Idaho XXX, winner of multiple awards...and her third grade spelling bee.

Miss AuroraBoobRealis a.k.a. DawN Crandell lights up the night stage with her unique mixture of raw and earthy, wild and fearless burlesque! She is an interdisciplinary performing artist creating in the intersections of burlesque, dance, theater and poetry. Central to her existence in this world is the fact that as a person she cannot and will not separate herself from her art, her race and her political beliefs. She is the co-founder of Brown Girls Burlesque, and most recently the brand new super troupe brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque. She has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College with a focus in performing arts, and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College with a focus on 20th Century Black Radical Artists and the intersections of dance, poetry and theater. Aurora first stepped on stage when she was five and never looked back. She has spent the last twenty plus years as a professional performer wowing and inspiring audiences world wide sometimes clothed, sometimes not. By day she is a certified fitness instructor teaching Zumba, PiYo and a class she co-created called Core and Balance.    Website

This group of past winners and significant contributors to The Great Burlesque Exposition are thrilled to be opening The Main Event for the BurlExpo's tenth year!

With sultry liquid undulations and fierce sex appeal, Boston-based Peril S. Curves seduces audiences throughout the northeast. Whether embodying a humorous character or a fresh take on the classic showgirl, Peril's performances are always over the top. Her outrageous costuming and magnetic presence have made her a five-time prizewinner of the Coney Island Mermaid Parade. Described as "regal and glamorous" and possessing "a flawless bum," this is one peril that admirers hungrily fall victim to again and again.    Website

From dancing and acting, to directing and producing--this Tease Queen has been titillating audiences since 2005, and was named Miss Congeniality at the Caribbean Burlesque Festival and The Washington Blade's Best Burlesque Dancer in 2014 and 2015! Her mission is to #INSPIREandELECTIFY as she has performed in 21 cities, 9 states, 3 countries, and 1 District. She was the Producer of DC's Open Stage show UNFASTENED DC (unfasteneddc.com). She is The Woman who Ignites Pleasure fuses for Sport, there's #nothingprivate about these tails... Miss Private Tails!

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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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Tagline: Charm City's Cheekiest Cheeks Proud to be a fourth generation Baltimoron, Ruby Rockafella's burlesque acts range from lovely to bizarre and from graceful to lascivious. And she always leaves the audience wondering just what it is they've witnessed. Ruby, like any precious stone, loves to shine. She also likes to put shiny things on her crotch. Brightest Young Things says she "oozes silent charisma." Ruby Rockafella is also a founding member of Baltimore's Bawdy Shop Burlesque, a theatrical burlesque troupe in which we write and perform fully scripted burlesque plays. (www.bawdyshopburlesque.com).    Website

Ruby Spruce is the The Attractive Nuisance, using fluid dance moves, humor and a good jiggle to create burlesque that human eyes cannot resist. Sprucie has been all around the theater and burlesque stage, including award-winning acting, dance captaining, stage-managing, kittening and working the booth. She taught pole dance for six years where she brought out the inner diva in countless Baltimore area women. In 2016 The Great Burlesque Exposition awarded her Most Humorous for her uncannily sexy Carol Burnett act. Sprucie is the newest member of Baltimore's Gilded Lily Burlesque. Her neo-burlesque stuns with evocative imagery and amazing feats of long-limbed hotness.    Website

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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A Chicago burlesque performer and model, Shimmy LaRoux is your bad girl with good home training. Bringing a combination of refined charm and exotic good looks, Shimmy is able to channel classic Hollywood, be playfully cheeky or serve fierce diva realness. Shimmy LaRoux is sassy, classy…but never ashy!    Website

Sunny Sighed and Bal'd Lightning are a tantalizing and titillating musical duo. Sunny brings years of musical theater training (including study at the Shenandoah Conservatory, from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude) to the burlesque stage as a tool for expressing her quirky and humorous vision of the world. Crowned The Baltimore Beauty Pageant's 2014 Queen of Crabs by Trixie Little and Mr. Gorgeous, her latest project has taken the form of Bawdy Shop Burlesque. Bal’d made his Orchestra Hall (Chicago) stage debut at the age of 4 and it’s been pretty much downhill ever since! Together they combine the heart of humor and satire with the mind of technology and connect your Broadway theatrical experience to the boudoir. A unique and sexy experience you won't want to miss!    Website

Bolt Action is probably an android running on lightning and the power of rock. Scarlett O’Hairdye is probably an alien spy sent to Earth who got distracted by Star Trek and rhinestones. They met. They married. Now they strip together in a bid for world domination as The Duet That Do It!    Website

Vivian Vice, the Temptress of  Sin and classic beauty of burlesque is a vintage inspired  burlesque dancer, belly dance performer, pin up model and producer. She is known for her class, grace, earth quaking shimmies, and sensual bumps and grinds. Performing since 2003, she brings to the stage  glamour and  sinful innocence. This mischivous good girl is the perfect mixture of darkness and light.  A burlesque queen  with an extensive belly dance  training background.   She honors both art forms by blending the dance movements of the golden era cabaret styling and artistry into her  burlesque performances  then creating  her own unique dance style. Vivian believes the art of sensual dance is a journey of healing and empowerment through self expression. She was a co founder of Whistlebait Burlesque who won Portland’s Best Dance Performer 2010-2012, a dancer of Naya's Trance Belly Dance, The Volcanic Vixens and the cast of Night @ Burlesque with The Maine Tease.   Performing in many productions such as Port City Peep Show, Big Burlesque at Little Theater,and Burlesque at Top of The East.  She also co produces the annual Donut Show and Glam O Rama.

Vivian is a published pin up model who holds the title of Vintage Girl Studios Logo Model 2016. She starred in Miss Barry's Boudoir, a short film by Vintage Girl Studios that was premiered in the 401 Film Fest. She was also featured in the film Witch Craft Blue by Michael Sargent. Vivian has worked with many burlesque stars including Tempest Storm in her touring show Tempest Storm’s Las Vegas Revue and The Pontani Sisters Burlesque A Pades with Whistlebait Burlesque. Vivian has also performed many times at the Great Boston Burlesque Exposition.. She had the pleasure of working closely with the burlesque legend The First Lady Of Burlesque, April March, to create a Tribute number to April's signature act. Vivian performed the Tribute in her co production A Tribute To The Golden Era Of Burlesque starring April March. Vivian Vice's seductive graceful performances will entrance and excite you while she shimmies with joy and drips with glamour ! She welcomes you to be a spectator of the goddess energy . Are you ready to be tempted?

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Vixen Valentine is the Mistress of Misbehaving and the learned the do’s and do often’s of burlesque in her hometown of Seattle, WA, USA. With a background in acting, physical theater and vocal work Ms.Valentine brings a strong sense of play, bright mischievousness, musicality and sensuality to her carefully crafted routines. Vixen Valentine has performed internationally in shows and festivals across Europe including the Munich Burlesque Festival (2014/2015), Como Lake Burlesque Festival where she was awarded Most Comedic (2014), Strasbourg Burlesque Award (2015), and the Geneva Burlesque Festival (2016). She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Physical.    Website