EXOTIC WORLD, CONEY, NEW ORLEANS

After breaking my camera in Key West during the winter, and losing the habit of shutter-buggery- I am finally back on the blog-horse! I'm going to catch you up quickly and then keep things more up-to-date from now on...here are some photos from the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend in Las Vegas, our Coney Island show and a trip to New Orleans for a Hendrick's Gin party and Bust Out Burlesque show.

BACK IN VERMONT

We're back in the LAND OF ENDLESS SNOW...it's almost spirit-crushing, but we have been working hard in circus school during the day and trudging home to hot cocoa by night. On the up side, my abs are rocking from all the shoveling we've done and my butt is going to look good too after all the times I've had to walk up the long road that leads to The Chalet- it's so steep the truck often can't make it up.

HELLO, 2009!

AN ELEGANT CHRISTMAS

We had an epic 12 hour drive from Vermont through a blizzard to get home to Baltimore for 2 awesome shows at The Patterson. The drive was worth it cause we spent the weekend with Miss Astrid, Dirty Martini, Lukki, and Taro. The day after our shows, we took our Burlesque-Family Holiday Party over to the infamous 2 O'Clock Club that used was where Blaze Starr got her start and eventually owned and operated. Now it's a gem of a strip club- probably hasn't been re-decorated since Blaze retired in the 60's- we smothered our favorite dancers (Elegance, Spice and Movement) with oppressive holiday cheer! Then we went home and listened to records...Monkey and Taro danced to Thriller in their matching outfits.

HOLIDAY MADNESS BEGINS!

I was THRILLED to be doing holiday numbers this year. Friday we were at Slipper Room and Saturday we performed a new Elf-Trapeze act at Murray Hill's HUGE holiday show at The Zipper! An online review of the show said this about us: "But perhaps the most memorable performance was the dirty, gravity-defying trapeze dance between Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey, which was so weird as to defy description." Perfect.

BURLESQUE IN BRATTLEBORO

I taught a really fun Burlesque Bootcamp class at Luminz Studio up here in Vermont this fall. We had two packed nights for our recital show- it was CRAZY fun because everyone in town kinda went nuts over all of the acts! In addition to helping them all create new solo acts, we performed a very "Vermonty" group number and stripped off our sweaters and mittens! The act that practically stole the show, though, was by our stage manager and sound tech- named "Twink & Berries." They are in the circus program we did last year and they rocked it.

THANKSGIVING AT THE CHALET