If being a professional drag queen already is a very demanding job, Sheila Wolf is, on top of this, a successful entrepreneur in the entertaining business as well as a burlesque icon. You may have heard of the Vaudeville Variety Burlesque Revue, one of many legendary...
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Win tickets to Extravagant Shambles Presents: Pride, Not Prejudice!
A long-term staple of the Berlin arts scene, Monster Ronson's Ichiban Karaoke plays host to a wild night of burlesque, drag, pole and musical comedy artists next Thursday - and we've got two pairs of tickets to give away. Presented by a vibrant cast of LGBTQ+...
What is gender anyway? Die Odd Night beim Berlin Burlesque Festival
Es ist jetzt schon wieder eine Woche her, aber solche Nรคchte vergisst man nicht so schnell: Das sechste International Berlin Burlesque Festival ist Geschichte, und fรผr alle, die nicht dabei waren (wieso zum glitzernden Teufel denn nicht?), hier der zum Scheitern...
Win tickets: Boheme Sauvage brings back the 20s in style!
Sad the summer has gone and suffering from the chill of autumn? Fear not, we have the perfect evening recommendation for you! Come along to Bohรจme Sauvage Berlin Nยบ98 on Saturday 29th September. A night of glamour, nostalgia and decadence. Be warned, this crowd takes...
Extravagant Shambles presented a Burlesque Night to remember last Friday with their event I Know Who You Did Last Summer
On Friday 20th July, in the small and cute 800A bar near Gesundbrunnen, we were in for a fearsome and feathery evening of burlesque, magic and performance art. Organised by Chloe Gale, stage name Cadbury Parfait, a cabaret of 8 special acts and one hell of a drag...
Barbed wire, feathers and fire: Cabaret of Curiositease Live Review
Cabaret of Curiositease was Berlin Burlesque Weekโs Friday show, freaky and strange, odd and fantastical, political and dark, this cabaret was a unique addition to the week. Taking place in Toast Hawaii, a venue filled with wonderful oddities like a unicorn and...
Get carried away on the wings of Der Grรผne Engel Cabaret Show tomorrow night @ Forum Factory!
The third and one of the many great events of the Berlin Burlesque Week will be Der Grรผne Engel at the Forum Factory tomorrow on Thursday 10th May. What makes this exciting is all the traditional burlesque inspired by the Weimar Republic, so 2018 will be transformed...
Tease your eyes this Berlin Burlesque Week at The Cabaret of Curiositease!
With Berlin Burlesque Week fast approaching (7th-13th May), we get together with Fifi Fantรดme, performer and organiser of Friday 11thโs big Cabaret of Curiositease to get an insight to what this exciting show will entail. Including burlesque, drag and circus acts, we...
The final burlesque lesson – in which Chloe gets rather sticky
It's with a heavy heart that myself and the girls say goodbye to the "Secrets of Burlesque" course as we have now completed our final week. The last session was taken by Germany's Queen of Burlesque Marlene Von Steenvag who guided us through story development. "You...
Getting your Tassels to twirl – It’s Week 3 at the Burlesque Course
Over half way through my Berlin Burlesque academy experience and the girls and I were hit with our hardest challenge - nipple tassels. Now it's one thing to strip down to a bare minimum in a room full of women, it's another to successfully get your tassels to twirl....
Now for the stockings: Chloe Gale delves deeper into the world of burlesque
After enjoying myself thoroughly in the first class, I was very excited to see what the second had in store. With stockings packed and ready to take a turn on the dancefloor, the women from the class came together on another balmy evening. Arden, our wonderful teacher...
indieBerlin attends a Shimmy Shake Burlesque Lesson
There's no denying that I'm a huge fan of burlesque and I have to say Berlin has one of the best circuits for it. So, I was wonderfully surprised when the headmistress, La Viola Vixen invited me to her school, Shimmy Shake Berlin, to take a class. After weeks of...