[ by: joel fishbane for Charlebois post]
Van Dyck: Burlesque encourages us to laugh….to shout to the heavens “Yes, I love sex, and I want everyone to know it!”
read more at: Charpo.blogspot.com
“Ms. Candyass is probably best known locally for her burlesque performances with the Dead Dolls Dancers—burlesque being a dance style, along with striptease, that she’s been teaching both formally and informally for close to a decade now.”
~Pole positions
by CHRIS BARRY
Read more at: MontrealMirror.com
“The text of Neon Nightz, presented by The Scandelles, is a deftly written anecdotal tale of one woman’s experiences working in Montreal strip clubs in the 1990s.
It takes its lyrical cue from Leonard Cohen’s Dance Me to the End of Love, one of the songs performed by Countess Christsmasher (very Carole Pope). She wears a priestly stole, has erotic vigil candles in front of her keyboards, and occasionally banters with the narrator (Van Bon Bon).”
~Review: Neon Nightz at the Wildside Festival
By Pat Donnelly
Read more at: montrealgazette.com
The dialogue about the show broadened to people from the US, even after the show moved on to Oceania.) So appreciated that our site doubled it’s previous record, this week (and that’s even if you remove the statistical anomaly caused by the Birbiglian spike).
Read more at: Charpo.blogspot.com
“…Could this be the very same Queen of the Montreal Burlesque scene who seems to have been born in the wrong decade, her voluptuous figure and come-hither doe eyes reminiscent of the most deadly femme fatale from any 1950 film noir?…”
Read more at: charpo.blogspot.com
Centaur’s largest Wildside Festival ever opened last night. Last year many Wildside performances sold out, so you’d best get crackin’!
For info visit centaurtheatre.com or click on the titles below to link directly to company websites.
Source: http://www.centaurtheatre.com/42_wildsidefestival.html
