Type: Workshop

In this class, you will be taught how to cover a bra, and different tips on how to make it peel-able for stage. This class requires you to bring a list of items. Please be sure to check your list twice before attending the class so that you can leave with your own stage worthy bra!

Requirements:
* A hard cup bra that fits you, or is slightly big on you. Think a push-up bra, or one that has thicker cups.
* 4 way stretch material (Just ask for the bathing suit material at the fabric store. The shop folks will help you out)
* straight pins
* thread that matches your fabric

What you will learn in this class:
– how to make a bra not look “off the rack”
– basic sewing skills
– basic draping skills
– how to attach stones to stretch fabric

For Core Dance’s 2022-23 REEL Art Series, Loren McFalls will present her film on Friday, March 31. A pre-screening experience with Loren as an entry point into her creative process will begin at 6:15 PM, and a reception and a screening with will follow at 7 PM. Loren McFalls’s film “|community|” will stream nightly from March 31 to May 25.

About her film, Loren says “I wanted to bring together a group of humans who didn’t necessarily know each other. Bringing together our unique experiences, we created a micro-community in the making of this piece. It’s a lot of contact-improvisation combined with choreography that we’ve learned together. I want to evoke a sense of community building as we, as a group, work together and explore movement.”

This is a high energy class where you will be learning the basics of twerk and more. There will be booty popping, rolls, shaking, floor work, and isolations! At the end you will learn a twerklesque combo where we combine Twerk and Burlesque! Come dressed to sweat because we are going to twerk the day away! LET’S SHAKE!

Award winning performer Queen of Hearts has always danced her way through life. After having a child 6 years ago this firecracker traded in her old ballet shoes for high heels. She is part of Snacctime Burlesque, Burlesque Bossettes, and Peek A Boo Revue. She also produces shows and classes show based of her brand “TWERKLESQUE”. She also founded the “PHILLY PHATTY AWARDS” the first all plus size award show in Philly.

You may have seen her at the Savannah Burlesque Festival, What the Funk Fest, Burlesque & Beyond, FATLANTA or Teaching TWERKLESQUE at Philly’s top burlesque schools. She is Philly’s THIRST TRAP OF THE YEAR 2019. Fat, Fierce, and Fabulous! She will entice you with her dancing and make you fall in love with her coy smile. Shes Philadelphia’s reigning Twerk Empress, follow her on Instagram @allhailqueenofhearts.

Media & Marketing for Burlesque will teach you the basics of promoting yourself as an independent performer through the eyes of a media and marketer. Topics include the basics of setting up your promotional materials, tag lines, and more.

This class is part of the Academy Burlesque II course and is also available as an independent workshop.

Oodles of Troodles is Atlanta’s premier nipple haberdasher. She has built a loyal customer base of performers all over the country – including festival and competition queens! Her pasties are known to be high quality, durable, and imaginative. She’s able to take imagination into reality, regardless of the complexity of the design.

Requirements for this class:
Wear clothes you don’t mind crafting in
Something to take notes with
An idea of what your “size” is! (wink, wink)
If you have a fabric you’d specifically like to work with, bring it!
All materials will be provided for you, and the cost associated are reflected in the price of the class.

This class is part of the Academy All Levels & Burlesque III courses and is also available as an independent workshop.

What is storytelling and why is that important to your Burlesque persona and acts? Burlesque itself is an artform that thrives on its ability to tell stories. These stories amuse, inspire and entice your audiences and are the backbone of your character. Included will be a discussion on narrative vs dramatic enactment in storytelling.

Join Roula Roulette on an exploration of the theatricality of burlesque and how the audience experiences your art, and why that’s an important question to ask in act creation.

What to Bring:
– Please bring something to take notes with
– Come in movement clothes as we will explore characterization and movement.

This class is part of the Academy Burlesque II course and is also available as an independent workshop.

Get Down with Po’Chop, the BAMF of burlesque is a movement based class intended to explore Po’s signature style that merges musicality, athleticism, sexual prowess, storytelling and beyond. Participants can expect to learn explosive choreography that pulls from a wide variety of disciplines such as modern dance, burlesque movement, hip hop, lyrical dance and beyond. Class begins with a warm up that leads into a choreographed phrase.

All levels are welcome. Folks should wear comfortable clothes to move in and come prepared to groove and sweat it out.

Drag King 101 is a workshop that is focused on providing tools to tap into your inner Drag King.  Po’Chop will explore the components that make up a noteworthy Drag King performance from character development, movement and physicality to costuming and beyond. Participants should wear comfortable clothes to move in. Folks of all identities and skill levels are welcome.

As a recipient of over 100k in grant funds to support their burlesque and drag practice, Po’Chop shares a wealth of knowledge in this workshop. From how to write a compelling project narrative to selecting and framing work samples Po’Chop’s harnesses their experience as both a grant recipient reviewer. Gain insightful approaches to finding, applying and winning local and federal funding. Let’s get this schmoney!

Oodles of Troodles is Atlanta’s premier nipple haberdasher. She has built a loyal customer base of performers all over the country – including festival and competition queens! Her pasties are known to be high quality, durable, and imaginative. She’s able to take imagination into reality, regardless of the complexity of the design.

In this class, you’ll learn how to make shapes beyond the standard circle, how to place a tassel and spinner, weighting tassels, how to choose where the point of the pastie will lie, the basics of illusion pasties, and how to paint with rhinestones.

Requirements for this class:
– Take the Basic Pastie Making and Tassel Twirling class
– Wear clothes you don’t mind crafting in
– Something to take notes with
– An idea of what your “size” is! (wink, wink)
– An idea of what kind of pastie you’d like to make and/or what questions you have
– If you have a fabric or stones you’d specifically like to work with, bring it!
– Scrap newspaper would be MOST appreciated

All materials will be provided for you, and the cost associated are reflected in the price of the class.
This class is part of the Academy Burlesque I course and is also available as an independent workshop.

This class will cover adhesives, how to put on your pasties and go through the process of learning how to twirl for every size! Small, big, medium and none chested humans can all learn how to tassel!

It is encouraged that students bring their own pasties with tassels, however there will be some available for purchase at the workshop.

Talloolah Love has been doing the up-do’s with vintage flair with an emphasis on drama and glamour for the past 14 years. She can show you all of the tips and tricks to polishing your look on stage with the perfect coif in this fast paced industry. She shows you how to utilize your hair, and includes instruction on how to incorporate basic hair pieces for the volume you need in order to properly take the stage with a polished professional look!
It is advisable to bring a camera and be prepared to take notes.

This class is part of the Academy Burlesque I course and is also available as an independent workshop.

The history of Burlesque is a vast and surprisingly long one. Though most consider Burlesque as an art form to be purely American with its start being 70 years ago at best, it actually began long before then, and is deeply rooted in the class system of western civilization.

Burlesque History & Ethics covers a vast swath of the history of “common man’s” theatre, and why it is such an important part of western culture. We will then explore the ethical impact this form of theatrical storytelling has on society today and what its moral and political implications are for the future.

This class is part of the Academy Burlesque I, II, III and All Levels courses and is also available as an independent workshop.

• daily ballet, pointe, contemporary, and conditioning classes
• mentorship from the Bluebird team
• daily Bible study

Who: pre-professional dancers ages 12&up
When: June 26-30 & July 24-28
Where: Perimeter Ballet Studios 9500 Medlock Bridge Rd. Johns Creek, GA
Cost: $450 for one week or $800 for both // Register before March 15 and it’s $400 for one week $750 for both

• daily ballet, pointe, contemporary, and conditioning classes
• mentorship from the Bluebird team
• daily Bible study

Who: pre-professional dancers ages 12&up
When: June 26-30 & July 24-28
Where: Perimeter Ballet Studios 9500 Medlock Bridge Rd. Johns Creek, GA
Cost: $450 for one week or $800 for both // Register before March 15 and it’s $400 for one week $750 for both