Exposed

Top photo: Bambi as Lobster Girl, photo by Ande Whyland. Bottom photo: Matt Fraser at Coney Island.

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Aug 09, 2014

(Beth B, United States, 2013, 77 min)

Live burlesque performance by Miss Lily Verlaine!

Seattle premiere!

Director Beth B takes us into the 21st century underground and reveals a secret world where cutting-edge performers are taking hold of a formerly taboo art form, Burlesque, and driving it to new frontiers of satire, parody, and transgression.

Featuring Rose Wood, Julie Atlas Muz, Mat Fraser, Dirty Martini, Bunny Love, Bambi the Mermaid, World Famous *Bob* & Tigger—these eight artists use their nakedness to operate on the far edge of Burlesque, combining politics and physical comedy to question inhibitive gender norms.

Capturing rehearsals, backstage preparations, private struggles and triumphs, and the extraordinary performances, the film gives access to the clubs and other hidden spaces where New Burlesque culture thrives. Ancient moral, religious and sexual shibboleths are subverted, and a new generation of the cultural avant-garde comes to light.

Lily Verlaine Bio
“A living, breathing work of art,”  Lily Verlaine is a classical ballet dancer and burlesque artist. She has studied at San Francisco Ballet and other notable schools with some of the most beloved names in ballet including David Howard, Laryssa Sklyanskaya, and Gelsey Kirkland.   Lily has served as Artistic Director and Choreographer of “Land of the Sweets, The Burlesque Nutcracker,” "Through The Looking Glass: The Burlesque Alice In Wonderland" (2009) “L’Histoire de Melody Nelson” (2010) and “Burlesco DiVino: Wine in Rome” which debuted in Seattle to rave reviews in 2012. 

Lily Verlaine has performed as a soloist in Europe, Asia, Australia, Los Angeles, New York, New Zealand, Chicago, and at The Portland Art Museum.  Her international influence continues to expand in the wake of her award-winning performance under the group name “Land of the Sweets” at the 2014 Burlesque Hall of Fame Tournament of Tease, appearances at high-profile charity events in Hong Kong and through the worldwide distribution of the documentary “A Wink and a Smile”, a film by Deirdre Timmons. Lily is also proud to be featured on the label of  The Mortal Vintner's 2012 "Lily Verlaine Viognier."

 

 

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