Next Week at Dr Sketchys…
July 11th, 2008
Next week at Dr Sketchy’s, we have a Science Fiction theme, starring Australia’s Queen of Burlesque, Imogen Kelly and the gorgeous Vivi Valentine - and both are performing!
Definitely advised to book ahead on this one! Click the image below to book or simply visit our store
Pictures from This Week at Dr Sketchys : Femme Fatales!
July 3rd, 2008
This Week at Dr Sketchy’s Sydney
June 30th, 2008
We have the lovely Gypsy Wood back at Dr Sketchy’s, and Kitty Van Horne debuts!! It’s Femme Fatales!!!!!
Click on the image to buy tickets!
Feasting On Flesh - Brisbane Festival
June 29th, 2008
You’re invited to dine at the most bizarre and curiously amusing dinner ever served in Brisbane as fairground attraction collides with sideshow burlesque for Feasting on Flesh. Devour a menu of sautéed acrobatics, macerated music and freshly whipped visual delights as Australia’s foremost circus and physical theatre performers turn your meal into a degustation of debauchery.
This array of visual and aural delicacies is served up with literary ingredients and mouth watering text by chefs Humphrey McQueen, Stephen Sewell and Eddie Perfect.
Created by Strut and Fret and directed by Scott Maidment, Feasting on Flesh is a crazy romp set in the saucy world of cabaret and set to a backdrop of ultra-lavish sounds from award-winning musician, Gotye.
TICKETS
Adult $35, Concession $28
BOOKINGS
Book now! OzTix 1300 762 545 or visit www.brisbanefestival.com.au
Booking fees apply
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The Ruby Revue - Tickets now on Sale!
June 27th, 2008
Finally we have set a date for the launch of The Ruby Revue in Sydney!
On Saturday 9th August The Ruby will open it’s doors at The Supper Club (Will & Tobys) to showcase Australia’s most intriging Burlesque, Vaudeville, Comedy, Music, Magic and Cabaret performers.
Launch night is set to feature an impressive lineup including Australia’s Queen of Burlesque Imogen Kelly flying up from Melbourne to start the festivities!
More details will be posted here shortly. In the meantime head to our store to buy your tickets!
Dr Sketchys Modelling Course
June 27th, 2008
There are still spaces left for our Introduction to Dr Sketchy’s Modelling Course on Tuesday 22nd July.
If you are interested in attending this course, please visit our store to book tickets.
Learn tips from professional life models, Dr Sketchy models and performers and get ideas on costuming and vintage styling!
Come to gain work as a Dr Sketchy’s model or simply just for fun!
Tuesday 22nd July
6:30-8:30pm
The ArtHouse Hotel
275 Pitt Street Sydney
Next Time at Dr Sketchys….
June 26th, 2008
We have the lovely Gypsy Wood back at Dr Sketchy’s, and Kitty Van Horne debuts!! It’s Femme Fatales!!!!!
Click on the image to buy tickets!
Vintage Glamour Workshops in Perth
June 20th, 2008
Sugar Blue Burlesque News Flash
Friday 20th June 2008
Vintage Glamour Workshop on this Sunday!
Due to last minute cancellations, you have the chance to be part of the Vintage Glamour Workshop on this Sunday!!
Spend a full day learning the tricks of the trade to transform yourself into a glamorous vintage pinup, then indulge in a professional photo shoot with Perth’s premiere vintage glamour photographer, David Woolley!
This Workshop: 9am-5pm Sunday 22nd June 2008
@ 480 Newcastle St, Northbridge, 2nd Floor Salon
Cost: $150
Limited places: 16 participants max, so email info@sugarblueburlesque.com to book your place.
July is almost full, so take this opportunity to be part of what everyone has been talking about! Join us this weekend for some Glamorous fun!
Upcoming Vintage Glamour Workshops: 13th July 2008, 17th August 2008.
You can email now to book your place in these workshops too!
Remember, check the website for all the details and the latest information!
www.sugarblueburlesque.com
Jo Welden writes about Fans…
June 20th, 2008
In fan workshops, once we master some of the hand positions, we talk about the conceal/reveal opportunities afforded by fans. Although of course we play with the bigger ostrich feather fans, we also play with several different sizes and types of fans.
Above: Dirty Martini’s fans backstage at Pinchbottom Burlesque. Photo by Jo Weldon
Fan dancing has a history outside of burlesque fan-dancing, as well, and a search for “fan dance” on youtube locates videos featuring Asian and Spanish dances having nothing to do with burlesque, as well as bellydance videos. I’ve seen all these translated for a burlesque audience, as well as fire fans and fighting fans!
Fans also have a history having nothing to do with dance, and I’ve long been fascinated by The Language of the Fan, though I’ve never played with it onstage.
Pinchbottom once produced a show in which all the performers did a fan dance–and none of them did remotely the same thing. Little Brooklyn used big foam “number one fan” hands for her reveals and conceals, Nasty Canasta used a car alarm as her music, and I did my Planet of the Apes fan dance, where I start out as an ape and turn into the Statue of Liberty (although if I recall correctly I had some kind of prop malfunction that ended up in me just getting naked…ah well, not the last time THAT will happen!). But of course Dirty Martini represented the quintessential, classic fan dance.
Many of us in burlesque also have hand fans which trail long pieces of silk, sort of like poi fans, which I’ll be carrying in the Mermaid Parade.
If you’re feeling the fascination, you might be interested in The Fan Museum in Greenwich, London, which recently came up in my news feed because the description of their current exhibition mentions Dita Von Teese’s “reveal and conceal.”
Dita plays with some huge pheasant-feather fans.
This institution is “the only museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making.” If I ever get across the pond, I must go!
Posted by Jo Weldon, Headmistress of The New York School of Burlesque, for burlesquedaily.blogspot.com.
Selina Vixen’s NYC Burlesque Photo Exhibition in Sydney
June 19th, 2008
Pics from Dr Sketchy’s This Week..
June 19th, 2008
Burlesque in Melbourne - Gypsy & Rag
June 19th, 2008
1st July - Dr Sketchy’s Sydney
June 18th, 2008
Gypsy Wood & Kitty Van Horne will be our models at Dr Sketchys for our Femme Fatale special 
It’s been ages since we’ve had the lovely Miss Wood, who happens to be having an exhibition downstairs in the ArtHouse Hotel during that time.
Kitty Van Horne will be making her debut at Dr Sketchys - so definitely not one to miss!!
To book tickets - simply head to our store
Dr Sketchy’s Site Down
June 18th, 2008
Our Dr Sketchy’s site is currently down, but should be back and working within 24hrs.
Sorry about any inconvenience.
If you would like to purchase tickets, or look at the roster, you can simply head to our store at www.jacbowie.com/zen in the meantime.
17th June - Dr Sketchys Sydney
June 17th, 2008
Dr Sketchy favourites Lauren LaRouge and Mimi Redlips are back!
Don’t miss out on this awesome display of samurai skill!!
Book now at our new store
If you have issues buying tickets, please email jac@jacbowie.com with the total amount so we can email you a direct payment link.
Heidi Hillier Show - Sydney Burlesque
June 15th, 2008
Hey Wise Guys and Wild Women,
Time to jump on the Train and go for another wild ride with the Heidi Hodeo Rodeo and the Rootin Tootin Shootin All stars!
Jump On Board. Tell all your freinds!
Its gonna be another Hootananny! YEEHAR!
Check out the great poster and please spread the wordxxxxx
Dr Sketchy’s Modelling Class
June 13th, 2008
If you think you have what it takes to become a Dr Sketchy’s model, visit our store and enrol yourself in one of our courses.
Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art School is all about giving artists the chance to sketch models that are glamorous, extraordinary, unique and unusual - maybe that’s you? We are always looking for burlesque bombshells, glittering showgirls, circus performers, body builders, drag queens, professional dancers, sideshow oddities or anyone with a fabulous costume, fascinating props or astounding physical skills!
If this is you (or even if it’s not), and you’d like to be a Dr Sketchy’s model, you will need to attend a Dr Sketchy Modelling Course, unless you are already an experienced life model. The workshop will introduce you to posing as a life model, how to choose positions for different pose durations, and of course the fine art of staying still! It is harder than it looks, and can be physically demanding, so come learn the tricks of the trade from other Dr Sketchy and professional life models.
There is no obligation to model after taking the workshop, so feel free to come along, even if you’re just curious! Being a Dr Sketchy’s model is fun and rewarding - models are paid for their time, plus you get to inspire a room full of artists, play muse for the evening, and see yourself transformed into works of art! What could be better?
When: Next Workshop JULY
Where: Sydney CBD Venue
Cost: $30
To Book Now, head to our store
News from Miss Sizzle! (NY Burlesque)
June 13th, 2008
Come on out and join my in the bikini ‘n pastie celebrations:
Tuesday, June 17th from 9:30pm-1:30am
Go Go @ Barrette
Barrette
601 Vanderbuilt Ave., Park Slope
C’mon down to this charming bar where the grilled cheese is to dye for! And what a better way to spend a Tuesday evening then watching me work my way into my bikini bod!
Thursday, June 18th @ 8pm
Go Go/ Stage Kitten @ Spice’s One Year Anniversary Show!
Rehab
25 Avenue B, NYC
When cupcakes are mentioned, you know there will be inappropriate frosting-licking! Yum yum!
Saturday, June 21st @ 2pm
Mermaid Parade!!!!
Coney Island, Brooklyn
Come and welcome Summer in this fantastic spectacle that is Coney Island! And stay after your Nathan’s hot dog dinner because later on that night…
Mermaid Ball @ 9pm
Go Go Dancer for Foreign Island
West 21 Street & Boardwalk
…I’m once again proving to y’all how much of a dancin’ fool I am! And what’s my costume, you may ask? Arrrgh, I can’t tell ya!
Has The Ruby Revue found a new Home?
June 12th, 2008
We are very close to announcing a new location for The Ruby Revue in Sydney.
Make sure you check back soon for the announcement!!
We are very excited about the possible new venue, and can’t wait to tell you all!!
After the huge success of our annual event, The Burlesque Ball, we have responded to our guests feedback and have created a similar concept, on a smaller, yet more intimate and accessible scale.
The Ruby Revue is everything the Ball is. Opulent traditional Burlesque. Authentic vintage vaudeville & satire. Music from another place and time. Our guests are taken back to a time reminiscent of 1940’s Paris and exclusive members only clubs. Our guests truly are transformed at this event, and all are under strict dress codes of Black, Red or Burlesque, to complete the total ambience of the evening.
From the moment our guests arrive, they are greeted by our Signature Cigarette Girls and Host, and shown to their seats or area. The room is dimly lit, and guests are firstly entertained by the smooth sounds of our live music (depending on the venue) of swing, jazz and the like.
Stay tuned for a launch date - expect July / August 2008!!
Advertising Offers
June 11th, 2008
We are about to launch our brand new Advertising & PR Campaign for The Burlesque Ball within the next few weeks. Now is a fantastic time to advertise on our websites, just in time for the major hits we receive during the lead up to The Burlesque Ball.
All editorial and print advertising will be bringing new people to the websites.
If you are interested in Advertising on any of our websites, please visit our Advertising page.
