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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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Advanced Fans
If you've mastered the basics, puff those feathers up for the next level of fan dancing! This class is geared towards students with previous fan dancing experience who are looking to develop new and more advanced fan skills. Building on dance principles taught in Basic Fan Dancing, the teacher will refine and define stances, poses, footwork, fan movement combos, and more advanced fan tricks. Using a combination of classic and modern burlesque...
Burlesque Fitness
Step away from the pole, ladies, and strut your stuff to this "Sexy Burlesque Fitness" workshop. We'll use floor work, the wall, and the everyday folding chair to help sneak effective toning exercises into sexy dance movement (belly dance, latin, hip hop and burlesque). Torch that booty, shred that core, stretch those arms and rollllll those hips to a mix of killer music and dim lights. You'll leave glistening and empowered, with a sassy smile on...
Drawing On Inspiration
Learn the methods of interpreting your inner vision onto paper using pens, colored pencils, pencils, markers. All skill levels welcome. Students will do a variety of projects that teach useful drawing techniques.
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Give Good Face - The Art of Facial Expression
Your face is one of your most powerful tools in performance. Are you getting the most out of it? Come to Vaudezilla for a session of play and exploration, along with tips and tricks for conveying authentic emotion and clarifying communication with the audience. Bring a smile and a hand mirror.
Take It On: Stage Presence Workshop
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3614 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL
This sleek and sly workshop is designed to help you develop stage presence, find a performance style that works for you, and connect with an audience. Theatre and movement exercises will be used to guide you in preparing for stage work or just upping your public speaking confidence. These exercises draw from burlesque/cabaret tradition, acting styles, and improv techniques. Make sure to wear comfortable clothes.
$15
Find Your Voice: Character Workshop
This workshop takes the fundamentals of stage presence and adds lessons on character creation and persona development to increase your working knowledge of the stage. Who you are on stage influences style choices: are you campy or vampy? Classy or sassy? Or do you not care for rhymes at all? Having a developed stage personality is a central part of burlesque and variety theatre and a technique that can help you make specific choices. Bring...
Strut & Strip
Great for beginners, but all levels are welcome! Elevate confidence and nurture your sensuality with burlesque striptease! We'll incorporate classic struts, bumps, wines, and grinds into a bawdy routine celebrating your inner diva. Students can expect a warm-up, exercises in movement and stage presence in addition to learning choreography for a salacious group act at the end of the session. Heels recommended. This class offers the opportunity for...
Specialty: Stretching & Contortion
Can't touch your toes? Already flexible but searching for more? This class is for you! Far from your traditional yoga class, over the course of an eight week session we will work to stretch and strengthen a variety of muscles within the body. We will develop a greater range of motion and discuss ways to apply newly found bendyness to burlesque, performance art and daily life. Prerequisites: None
Tassel Twirling
Up, down, round and round! Tasseled pasties are probably one of the most ubiquitous hallmarks of burlesque. Learn the basics of twirling, including different directions, one tassel at a time, and different body positions that encourage tantalizing twirling! We'll also take a side step into the world of assles, too. Note that you will be required to bare your boobies for this workshop. Please bring a pair of tasseled pasties and application adhesive,...
Specialty: Rock & Roll Dancing & Technique
This 8 week class will focus on different genres of rockin roll and the burlesque that follows. Whether you are a trained dancer or have never put on a pair of high heels, you are welcome to this class. Music influences will include everything from the Black Keys to AC/DC, from Dion to The Belmonts to Gossip. Learn across the floor movement, burlesque technique, floor work and a shimmy shakin' routine that you can perform in front of our crowds at...
Femme Fatale
In this routine-based class, the goal is to connect with your inner sensuality through movement exploration and honing in on the feminine that every body has within them. You will learn a variety of movements, transitions, and sequences utilizing the whole room (floor, wall) and other props, which will provide the foundation to eventually move, dance, and unapologetically express yourself through improvisational movement. We will delve into...
Rock & Roll Burlesque
Indulge your dark 'n' dirty desires with the Windy City's Tourtured Soul by taking her Rock and Roll class: Give your burlesque a swift kick in the you-know-where and spice up your moves! Using burlesque basics, and some badass music, all are welcome to Miss Nyxon's Rock & Roll burlesque class. All levels and genders welcome. Every body welcome. This class offers the opportunity for a short group performance at the end of the session! (Not required.)...
Burlesque Level 1/2 (Intro)
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3330 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL
Whether you've got an eye on taking the stage, spicing things up in the bedroom, or simply looking for a different way to work up a sweat, this introductory level burlesque class can accomplish all three. Vaudezilla's best known teachers & choreographers teach you fundamental stage terms and helps you get comfortable expressing yourself through dancing and using your body. In this class, you'll be encouraged to recognize 8-counts and remember...
Bountiful & Beautiful: Rubenesque Burlesque
Vaudezilla Studios @ 3330 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL
Calling all Ample, Thick, Queen-sized, and FABULOUSLY FAT folks looking to shimmy and shake some sexy into their bodies! In this 8-week course we celebrate your sexy in a body-positive environment! You will learn a fun, sassy, sexy number and have the opportunity to perform as a group in our student showcase! All bodies are burlesque bodies! If you have ever dreamed about burlesque but wouldn't dare to try, this class is for you! This class...
Juniper's Twerkshop
Calling all booties! Join Juniper in this fun, active twerkshop class where you will learn how it's really done! We'll start off with stretches and warm ups, followed by a short routine, with an incorporation of floorwork moves. To end our class, we'll take a moment to show off some of the things we learned with an improv routine with the song of your choice (not mandatory, but fun!). We’re throwing away our cares and throwing our asses! Booty...
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