About Vaudezilla Chicago Burlesque
VAUDEZILLA MISSION STATEMENT
Vaudezilla's mission is to build and cultivate learning and performance experiences that encourage courage, creativity, and camaraderie for artists of all identities. Through showing up truthfully and whole-heartedly as teachers and performers, we facilitate a bold, inclusive space that awakens and celebrates every body and uplifts the art of burlesque dance as a form of self-love. We aim to elevate long-lasting, authentic relationships, through which we open hearts and broaden minds about the beauty and potential of radical self-acceptance to generate a more peaceful world.
Vaudezilla's mission is to build and cultivate learning and performance experiences that encourage courage, creativity, and camaraderie for artists of all identities. Through showing up truthfully and whole-heartedly as teachers and performers, we facilitate a bold, inclusive space that awakens and celebrates every body and uplifts the art of burlesque dance as a form of self-love. We aim to elevate long-lasting, authentic relationships, through which we open hearts and broaden minds about the beauty and potential of radical self-acceptance to generate a more peaceful world.
2020 Racial Justice Statement
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CHICAGO BURLESQUE / PRESS LINKS & QUOTES
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North By Northwestern: Sex Week features masturbation, sex work, performances Burlesque Magazine: 10 Best USA Burlesque Shows Chicago Reader: Best of Chicago 2016 Red Eye: Baring It All: Vaudezilla UPChicago: Review of Vaudezilla's Live Band Burlesque Burlesque: A Chicago Institution: Burlesque: A Chicago Institution Vocalo: Vaudezilla's Red Hot Annie, Cherry Brandi, & Mia D. Vine on Vocalo New City: Chicago Burlesque Chicago Stage Review: Variety Meets: Vaudezilla's Red Hot Annie Live From Chicago It's Matt Kissane!: Matt Kissane Meets Red Hot Annie Chicago Now: Bawdy Language: Burlesque Isn't Just About the Strip Chicago Tribune: Burlesque show: You'll know it when you see it Gapers Block: Review: The Chicago Story Collective @ Stage 773 Chicago Pipeline: Burlesque Takes Over Wicker Park Chicago Reader: Take it to the pole: Chicago's male pole dancers Chicago Reader: Vaudezilla! Trim: A Holiday Spectacular Chicago Tribune: Critic's Guide to Burlesque: Naughty, Lively, But Is It Art? Chicagoist: The 10 Best Burlesque Troupes and Venues in Chicago "The appeal of Vaudezilla is that you get guaranteed quality for a reasonable price." - Scott Wilson, Quip "Vaudezilla is known for putting on the best authentic burlesque shows in Chicago." - K.D. Hopkins, Chicago Theater Beat "Red Hot Annie and her company members seem to get the historical essence of burlesque: witty, satirical humor blended with sex appeal." - Kristen Mitchell, Cheeky Chicago "Chicago's power couple of bump-and-grind" - J. Scott Hill, Chicago Stage Review "The local resurgence of burlesque seems to be fueled less by leering demand than by a supply-side yearning for outlets for sexual expression. Vaudezilla spares us both sides of the equation...Vaudezilla sheds the desperate tone that shrouds other shows." - Keith Griffith, Chicago Reader "[Red Hot] Annie's productions are gritty, abstract, and full of humor. Taking the basic idea of the striptease, she has evolved the concept into something fresh and created an open-minded space for unique expression. Historically, burlesque has been associated with parody, wit, gimmick, and upper class satire, all of which has not been lost on Annie and her fellow dancers." - Creative Filth, Chicago |
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