GUEST WORKSHOPS
Learn with a guest teacher visiting Flazéda!
Workshops can purchased on-off through our store, or students can book through our booking system using existing class credits
Please bring:
Pen and paper, note taking software if you plan to bring ipad/computer
Please note: Dollar may bring some of their books for students to view. Due to the age of some of them, they ask if students bring water, it is not brought anywhere near the books in case of damage.
The Sensual Study of Burlesque: How to research for you act!
Workshop with Dollar Dazzler
In association with the Australian Burlesque Museum Exhibition in Canberra (https://www.facebook.com/events/162363442498863), we are proud to present a day of workshops on 13 June at Flazeda.
WORKSHOP INFO:
The Sensual Study of Burlesque: How to research for you act!
Open to all, but geared specifically towards performers.
Have you been struggling with where to start on the history of burlesque? Want to understand the stories of our stripping foremothers more? Let Dollar Dazzler guide you through our stories and how to bring YOUR interpretation to the stage!
This 90 min workshop will give you the tools and tips to help develop both tantalising traditional and eye-popping Neo-Burlesque acts! This workshop also includes time to ask those questions that you sometimes have been too scared to ask about creating acts based in history, so bring your ideas and your questions and let's get learning!
ARCHIVE TO APPLAUSE - DANCING WITH THE GHOSTS OF BURLESQUE
Workshop with Alyssa Kitt
In association with the Australian Burlesque Museum Exhibition in Canberra (https://www.facebook.com/events/162363442498863), we are proud to present a day of workshops on 13 June at Flazeda.
WORKSHOP INFO:
Burlesque is a historical art & we represent a rich, queer theatrical legacy. Dig into the archives to evoke historical ghosts, channel feminist flappers and follies,sling off the sheen of celluloid dreams & grind with the gritty ghost gals of downtown dime house Burly Q clubs.
From fragments of faded feathers and smirking sepia strips, we can consciously create contemporary pas de deux with the legends, who have laid in mothball trunks of yore. But how do we bring our modern insights, ingenuity, influence and innovation in line with honouring the visions of our originators and understand how to perform what WAS sexy 50-100 years ago?
Bring their legacies to life to continue our fanciful stripping genealogy in this 90-minute workshop with Burlesque Historian Alyssa Kitt! You will learn how to embody the legends, tease out their choreography & develop a historically accurate repertoire of movement patterns that dance in duet with the archive.
Create homage and tribute acts from archival research, and bring the sparkling strippers of the Golden Age to contemporary imagination across aspects of choreography, costume, gesture and expression that intermingles with feminist interventions into the archive.
BRING: An open mind and heart, your fine self, your performance shoes, notebook & one item of historical inspiration - be it a glove, panel skirt, favourite photograph or video clip that you’re working on developing into a new or existing routine. (I will have some of my own VERY special collections of items on display too).
Suitable for: Beginners or professionals - whoever you are in whatever body you beautifully possess - this class is open to any expression of gender identity.
ABOUT ALYSSA
Alyssa is the Director of the Australian Burlesque Museum, she has curated touring exhibitions that celebrate Australia’s unique stripping history. A burgeoning queer theorist, feminist historian, writer and journalist - she publishes regularly on the public presentation of the body, burlesque, BDSM, sexuality and identity politics.
Her research focuses on queer theory and feminist interventions in the archive. She is currently undertaking research on Sydney’s erotic performance art history from the 1970s-2000s, Mapping Australia’s neo-burlesque revival, and the strip-art activism of Gurlesque. She is the Associate Producer of Miss Burlesque Australia, writer of the Miss Burlesque Australia rulebook, a seasoned competition judge, and bonafide veteran of the competition. Over her 10 years with MBA, she has won a swag of tiaras and titles including Miss Burlesque Australia first runner up in 2014, Miss Classic MBA (2012, 2014) and is the only two-time winner of Miss Burlesque Queensland (2014, 2012).
ABOUT ALYSSA
Alyssa is the Director of the Australian Burlesque Museum, she has curated touring exhibitions that celebrate Australia’s unique stripping history. A burgeoning queer theorist, feminist historian, writer and journalist - she publishes regularly on the public presentation of the body, burlesque, BDSM, sexuality and identity politics.
Her research focuses on queer theory and feminist interventions in the archive. She is currently undertaking research on Sydney’s erotic performance art history from the 1970s-2000s, Mapping Australia’s neo-burlesque revival, and the strip-art activism of Gurlesque. She is the Associate Producer of Miss Burlesque Australia, writer of the Miss Burlesque Australia rulebook, a seasoned competition judge, and bonafide veteran of the competition. Over her 10 years with MBA, she has won a swag of tiaras and titles including Miss Burlesque Australia first runner up in 2014, Miss Classic MBA (2012, 2014) and is the only two-time winner of Miss Burlesque Queensland (2014, 2012).
The Sparkling Stage - Rethinking Space and Spectorship in Burlesque
Workshop with Alyssa Kitt
In association with the Australian Burlesque Museum Exhibition in Canberra (https://www.facebook.com/events/162363442498863), we are proud to present a day of workshops on 13 June at Flazeda.
WORKSHOP INFO:
Space. Endless emptiness or endless possibility? The stage - four corners, a platform between you and the audience. How do we use it effectively, how do we harness the energy within, between and abounding beyond? Why simply “use” space, when we can morph spatial barriers into fluid fantasy.
Have you read that you need to “use the space” of the stage, and automatically assumed this means you need to run across every inch of the stage, move around constantly? You’re not alone!
In this unique workshop, Alyssa turns theories on the architecture of stage space into practice, breaking apart notions of what it means for the burlesque artist to inhabit the performance space.
In this 60/90-minute workshop, world burlesque heavyweight and theatre PhD candidate Alyssa Kitt combines performance theory with passionate, unconventional techniques to teach you how to defy the rules of theatre, build and shatter illusions, and create lasting memories for your audience, ultimately creating a space for dialogue and exchange.
Join Alyssa for one of her last Australian workshops before she heads to the United States to complete her Doctoral studies at City University New York
In association with the Apprentease ACT (https://www.facebook.com/events/1256693671393405), we are proud to present workshops with Kelly Ann Doll on Sunday 20 June 2020.
ABOUT KELLY ANN DOLL
Kelly Ann Doll is the ‘high octane’ Australian Burlesque Powerhouse. She is the producer of Miss Burlesque NSW and has more titles under her belt than a heavy weight champion! Kelly Ann Doll is based in Sydney and has been entertaining the nation for well over a decade. Her everlasting energy and skills have seen her sky rocket her way to successful career not only the Burlesque Arena but as a producer, mentor and creative director to some of the Nation’s leading event companies and clientele. ⠀
Workshop 1 - Blues Burlesque
Learn from one of Australia's Queens of Burlesque
Kelly Ann Doll who will be sharing a very special workshop on the slow and seductive art of Burlesque to Blues.
In this workshop you will learn fundamentals to incorporate skills with understanding the importance of musicality to blues music and enhance your strip tease techniques to compliment the slow and sassy style that the music represents.
Kelly Ann Doll is an internationally renowned Swing dancer, and has been lucky enough to be trained under swing and blues dance legends such as Frankie Manning , Virginie Jensen and Erin Stevens, so you you are in good hands!
Wear something with movement and not restricted, and feel free to dress up as there will be strip tease elements in the class
Level - Beginner - Advance
Workshop 2 - Stage and Footwork Tips and Tricks
Kelly Ann Doll undoubtedly has the fastest feet in the business and she is bringing her signature workshop with some footwork tricks and tips to get those feet moving and using every inch of that stage in style.
You will also learn how to adapt your classic or modern styling to connect with ANY audience and understand how to get the attention you deserve without asking for it.
Wear what ever you like, there won’t be stripping in this class, just ensure if you are wearing heels make sure they aren’t too high so you can get the most out of the footwork.
Level - Intermediate - Advance
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