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Vaudezilla Studios
Upcoming Classes in Chicago
VAUDEZILLA! is a renowned burlesque show in Chicago that has been captivating audiences since 2008. In addition to their performances, they also offer burlesque classes at their home studio in Old Irving Park, providing a space for people of all ages, sizes, and abilities to practice creativity and confidence.
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Hireability & Making Money
Whether you are an aspiring or established performers, some of the most important choices you'll make in your burlesque career will involve who to work with, who to turn down, and when to ask for more money. In this class, we'll discuss what characteristics make a performer hireable and how to make the most of your current and potential resources via organization, finding your niche, ettiquette, and even community politics! This class demystifies...
Professional Performer Practicum: Stage Presence
Whether your performance style is sexy or funny, whether you are standing, talking, or dancing, learn techniques that will allow you to become more accessible to the audience. With emphasis on confidence-driven movement drills, facial expressions, and mental focus and calm, this class is geared towards established and aspiring performers who'd like to appear more comfortable on stage. Teacher will guide students through techniques including...
Knitted Flowers
Hand-knit flowers can be a great way to add a personal touch to an ensemble. In this class, we will make three different types of knitted flowers and explore ways to amp them up. Basic knitting skills are required. Class fee includes materials.
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Serious Doodles: Graphic Documentation
Graphic documentation is a process of illustrative note-taking. Learn how to illustrate, emphasize, and organize your notes with graphics, colors, and writing styles - think doodling on steroids. Participants will learn through case studies, start a visual vocabulary, and practice graphic documentation in class. If you are a doodler, a visual learner, or just plain like markers, this workshop is for you.
Shapeflow: Moving on Impulse
Shapeflow is a free-movement tool developed to help artists focus on mind-body connection and free themselves from the limitations that habitual movement can create. Take this workshop and find ways to move the way you want to! Shapeflow is all about impulsive movement; find the full breadth of the shapes and sizes you can make with your wonderful expansive body. In this workshop we will focus specifically on finding a neutral body through...
Hello, Gorgeous! - Wig Care
Whip that wig into shape and work it! Wig Care with Shirley Blazen covers essentials on wig maintenance, and tailoring that dream hair to your gorgeous head. We'll cover the foundations on securing wigs, styles and how to tailor them to you. Bring your favorite wig as we dive in head-first through real-time styling techniques. All levels and genders welcome.
Hello, Gorgeous! - Stage Face
We're putting our game faces on and striking a pose in this Stage Make-Up workshop designed to brush up on the basics and explore new techniques to elevate the looks you love! All levels of experience welcome as we start from the perfect foundation to the sparkly details. Bring your favorite colors and tools. We'll discuss how to maximize the impact of your products and experiment with color. Put your best face forward and flaunt a stage look...
Intro to Tech for Performance
Do you want to learn about all the magic that happens off stage? This class is designed to provide you with an introductory knowledge of the tech basics in the world of live performance. Covering sound, lights, video/projection, stage managing, and technician/performer relations. This class will give you an all around understanding of the behind the scenes work that makes a show happen.
Tech Notes 101
For burlesque, cabaret, and variety performers alike! Come learn more about tech notes. Learn what information is and isn't useful to technicians, stage managers, and running crews. Learn how to know when you've given enough info, and when you haven't. Come and refine your tech notes! Your future crews will thank you!
Slide Rules
PowerPoint and Google Slides can be a powerful tool, but so many people use them poorly. Midge will explain ways you can embrace the slide deck in your presentations. This hour-long workshop will present terrible slide examples to analyze just where the presenter went wrong. From the horror, we will discuss the visual elements that make slideshows not just bearable, but effective. You'll be ready for your TED Talk in no time!
Performer Branding 101: The Basics
This course will teach you the basics of establishing and marketing your brand as a performer. We'll cover: getting an email address, domain purchasing/hosting, what goes into a performer website, business cards, headshots, social media and more! With almost 10 years of advertising experience for brands such as Microsoft, Glade, Starbucks and bebe - let Shimmy help you get your online life!
Fundamentals of Serving Face and Body
Dress sharply head to toe and experience several exercises designed to work your every angle for an audience of one or a sold out crowd. Formalwear required
Dance Flair & Clean Lines : For Stage Performers
Add pizazz with some fun dance techniques & refine your lines with dancer & performer Gaea Lady! This workshop will teach how to be aware of and extend the lines of your body for the stage to help embody characters, invite grace, and strike clean poses. We'll then play with fun spins & turns, leg extensions, core stability, and fancy footwork to add into your stage routines. Beginner-Intermediate movers of all ages & backgrounds...
Lilly Rascal's Rock and Roll Workshop
Do you like Burlesque but always wanted to it to have an edge? Lilly Rascal is teaching her Rock and Roll workshop - she will combine rock and roll with classic burlesque moves, using different genres of rock music to teach you kick-ass combinations, across the floor and floor work that will really rip your fishnets!!
Character Development
Want to portray one of your heroes? Have an idea to take on a new persona? No matter what stage of character you are in, Shirley Blazen will help you take it to the next level! Character development is a crucial skillset to elevate your stage presence, enhance your choreography, and nurture act concepts.
Chair and Boa Work
Learn from a burlesque legend! In this special workshop that has been taught all over the country by esteemed BHOF legend and Las Vegas resident Tiffany Carter, you will be guided through using props like chairs and boas to improve your stage presence and appearance.
Movement for Everybody
Ideal for performers with disabilities, those without dance training, big bodied performers, or movers who want to branch out from their training this movement workshop utilizes the principles of Integrated Dance to make your body work for you. Utilized by Candoco Dance Company and Axis dance company, Integrated Dance is a method of individualized technique. We will take a somatic approach to movement and explore three core principles: Intention,...
Fix Your Smartphone Photos
Ever get a photo on your Smartphone that you wanted to improve? Maybe the background is distracting? Maybe the color looks funny? Maybe there is a blemish on a face you want to eliminate? You can do this yourself on your phone! Sheffield Belmont will show you how to fix your photos quickly and easily! We will use free apps available for any Smartphone. Please bring your Smartphone with photos you want to work on, and with Snapseed and Aviary...
Exhale: Yoga for Survivors of Trauma
Research shows that trauma - or anything that causes "inescapable shock" - can impact the mind and body. Research also shows that yoga can help you manage or even heal the effects of trauma. This class is a confidential, safe space for women, womxn, and femmes. In it, you will learn postures, breathwork, and other techniques in a practice designed to help you develop resilience and remind you that you are in control of your own body. This class is...
Stage Makeup: Highlighting & Contouring
Whether you're an actor, dancer, or presenter, if you're doing it in front of a large group of people, you need to know how to make sure your face reads all the way to the back rows. We show you the How, Where, and Why to highlight and contour. We talk about color theory and how the lighting should affect your makeup choices. We show you how to make your eyes read all the way to the back row - but still look pretty to the front row! You will learn...
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