Conference Bios
About Ava Fox
Teacher - Circle Skirts Made Easy!Teacher - Pattern Making - Triangle Bra
Teacher - Pattern Making - Underwear that Fits
Ava Fox is a Boston-based performer.
About Betty Blaize
Teacher - The Strategy behind the SizzleBetty Blaize, 6' of Fun... is a veteran of the Boston Burlesque scene. She's a founding member of the Boston Babydolls with a background in belly dance, Indian classical dance and martial arts, and... computer science. She's also the web mistress for this site and an ardent artisan, making a substantial number of costumes for herself and the Boston Babydolls.
About Catty Wompass
Teacher - Story-Based Burlesque: Choreographing Your PersonaJust 44 and a half feet shorter than The 50-Foot Woman and as sexually attracted to frogs as Miss Piggy, this Iowa City-based beauty is the silliest name in sapphic burlesque. She's the co-producer of Bawdy Bawdy Ha Ha burlesque — she’ll steal your socks and knock your heart off — she's just a little askew — she's Catty Wompass!
About Chakra Tease
Teacher - Chakra Balancing with Chakra TeaseTeacher - Buti Yoga
Chakra Tease, whose favorite philosopher is Socrates, began as a VaVaVette, with Cora Vette and the VaVaVettes. The VaVaVettes performed at Harrah's for Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend and at the House of Blues for the New Orleans Burlesque Festival. Locally Chakra performs at The Clocktower Cabaret. She has performed at the Colorado Burlesque festival for the past two years and was a soloist at the Ohio Burlesque Festival in 2013, performed and taught at the Great Burlesque Expo in Boston in 2015, 2016 and 2017, performed and taught at Southern Fried Burlesque, and performed at the Great Southern Exposure burlesque festival. In 2014 she became the choreographer as well as a performer for D'Sanez Productions "Feel This Moment" variety show. She was in the 2014 California Burlypicks, the 2016 Colorado Burlypicks, and the Golden Legends Champion Challenge in 2016.
About Della-Kate Flower
Teacher - Curves R Us: Underthing Creation for the Plus Size DancerDella-Kate Flower is the creepy love child of the Hoggetowne Burlesque & Drag Alliance. With four years of performing and three years of producing under her shimmy belt, The Giant of Jiggle has spread the belly love all over the southeastern U.S.! She is your Florida Burlypicks 2019 Master of Lip Sync and Improv, and producer of Purple Nightshade Productions!
About Guilted Lilly
Teacher - Get On Your Knees and BlowGuilted Lilly has been described as "a classically trained Siren who can switch from musical theater to jazz standards at the drop of a hat." With the face of an angel, the mouth of a sailor (convenient given her Siren-like voice), and curves that would make even the Goddess of Love herself swoon, this multi-faceted flower of the evening is sure to surprise you. Along with her onstage appeal, she is an expert Stage Kitten who has worked with new performers and legends alike, and is always trying to raise the bar by showing that Stage Kittens should be (and are) a great deal more than just sexy outfits and picking up clothes. Lilly is the co-founder and artistic director of Shakesperotica, a whimsical combination of two of her favorite art forms: Shakespeare and burlesque! When she's not onstage, she enjoys helping the tech experts with hanging lights, building sets, running cables (she loves to crawl under the stage), or fixing costumes. She speaks French, volunteers at a parrot sanctuary, buys glitter ten pounds at a time, loves to frolic, and has a miniature poodle named Loki. She also happens to strongly dislike talking about herself in the third person. Lilly spells her name with three Ls.
About Iridessa Blossoms
Teacher - Cardio Dance TeaseTeacher - Belly Dance Workshop
Teacher - AcroYoga
Teacher - Hot n' Sexy Hip Hop
Iridessa Blossoms is an Internationally known Performance Artist and is making her way around the world one show at a time. She has been stimulating audiences with her unique expression and artistic concepts in variety shows for close to a decade. She is known for her pop n' lock isolations and hybrid style of belly dance. She is multi- talented and her signature style is broad, diverse and ever-changing. While struggling to find her place in belly dance, she found her community while attending the annual burlesque conventions, The Great Burlesque Exposition and Burlycon. She is the founder and former producer of Poppin' Cherries and Eclectic~ Ka and owner of Creative Motion Dance! With her distinguished hips that tease and signature moves that please, she dances effortlessly in an unreal fashion. Sultry and sassy...transforming your senses to a place that is ethereal. Bridging the gap between worlds and transcending time and space, she is a magical goddess in motion! When she is not lighting up the stage you can find her frolicking with fairies.
About Lady LaRouge
Teacher - Daring Dancing & Tassel TwirlingTeacher - Too Darn Hot! 150 Years of Burlesque History in America
Lady LaRouge is a spunky, sweet, sass master who hails from Worcester MA, the Dirty Woo, ! As a body positive babe- you may have seen her shake her hips around town as she loves performing burlesque. She was a founding member of The Baphomettes {a Salem based troupe} & has shimmied all over the state, most notably at: the Opus Underground in Salem, the Boston and Massachusetts Tattoo Conventions, in Boston and Worcester respectively, at The Middle East Night Club, Sonia, in Cambridge, as well as part of Secret Walls/ Pow! Wow! Mural Festival - an international arts festival that sets up base in her hometown each summer. Her focus as of late has been to bring more bumps and grinds to Central Massachusetts by performing at Ralph's Rock Diner, Bull Mansion and the Hibernian Society! Lady LaRouge has also taught burlesque history classes with a focus on the history of tassel twirling here in MA - as well as an intro to Burly Q dance worksop to get beginners in the groove! She believes all bodies are burlesque bodies and she wants to see you shed some skin! When not on stage she loves helping out behind the scenes of shows - picking up panties or smothering Slutcracker babes in glitter, or helping with logistics of festivals. Away from the stage, Lady LaRouge strums her ukulele, sings showtunes, dances, and takes long candlelit bubble baths to soak away all the blood, sweat, tears, and cum that accompany the showgirl life.
About Miss Mina Murray
Teacher - Get Tight: A Guide to CorsetryTeacher - Subtle Sparkle: Edge-Beading Technique
Teacher - Caring for Your Costume
After the job market for glamourous archaeologists dried up, Miss Mina Murray abandoned her Ivory Tower and turn to the art of the striptease. She is a co-founder of The Boston Beautease (formerly The Boston Babydolls) and Headmistress of the Boston Academy of Burlesque Education (B.A.B.E.). Known as "The Educated Ecdysiast" and "The Martha Stewart of Burlesque", she recently published "Miss Mina Murray's Little Book of Better Burlesque".
About Mr. Scratch
Teacher - BDSM* 101 (Burlesque Dancer Social Media)Scratch is the founding chair of The Great Burlesque Exposition and the director and producer of The Boston BeauTease (formerly The Boston Babydolls).
About Red Velvet
Teacher - Basic Stretching and StrengtheningTeacher - Cancan
Teacher - Basic Pasties... and Beyond!
Panelist - Panel: The Body of Work: Longevity in Burlesque
Teacher - Basic Fan Dancing
Red Velvet, a life-long dancer, has performed in musical theater and burlesque throughout the U.S. and internationally. Red Velvet is proficient in various dance forms and teaches classes in burlesque, cancan, and Isadora Duncan dance. Red Velvet is co-artistic director of a monthly show, DIVA or Die Burlesque, and is artistic director of the cancan troupe, The Velvettes. She has performed with the award-winning Hot Pink Feathers and award-winning Flaunt Follies, Bombshell Betty’s Burlesqueteers, Alegria Samba Dance Company, and was artistic director for the dance group Pretty, Pretty Please. Her burlesque performances have won Judge’s Choice at the 2019 Arizona Burlesque Festival, Most Classic at the 2016 Great Burlesque Exposition and Most Humorous at the 2014 Great Burlesque Exposition. She co-created five full-length burlesque/cabaret/theater productions: Rebel without a Bra, At the White Rabbit Burlesque, Hotel Burlesque, Just Another Zombie Holiday Show, and Dollhouse Monsters. She loves bringing her crazy ideas on stage for your enjoyment. Come and Try a Slice of Red Velvet!
About Scarlett Letter
Teacher - Preparing to Survive ProducingTeacher - The Art of Fabric Manipulation
Teacher - Keeping your Ecdysiast Books
Moderator - Panel: The Body of Work: Longevity in Burlesque
Scarlett Letter has been dazzling the world since 2004 and stunning them even longer. A long time fixture of the Los Angeles Burlesque scene, Scarlett has graced stages across North America and Europe and has won several awards along the way. Also a costumer and producer, Scarlett is known for a dark cold beauty reminiscent of Hollywood Noir and the classic Hitchock heroine.
"With 4 feet of red hair and miles of bad intentions"
About Scratch
Teacher - Who's Who in Classic BurlesquePanelist - Panel: The Body of Work: Longevity in Burlesque
The Founding Chair of The Great Burlesque Exposition and the co-founder of The Boston BeauTease, Scratch is a well-known and well-respected M.C., producer, and teacher.
About Sheila Starr Siani
Teacher - Hula Hips Cardio WorkoutTeacher - Sex and Elegance
This sensual supernova burned up the stage in 2013 at the inaugural Hollywood Burlesque Festival, taking the title as the first Miss Hollywood Burlesque. Her love affair with dance began as a child with the usual ballet, tap, and jazz. Her intrigue with fertility and courtship dances and interest in the seductive arts led her onto the strip club stage. Siani has blended all of these styles and is an erotic and elegant striptease artist, who drips puddles of sex on the stage.
About Sweet Dee
Teacher - Booty BounceSweet Dee, The Boss Booty Babe of Burlesque, has been shaking and quaking for over 20 years with experience in a variety of dance styles such as Latin Ballroom, Hip Hop, Jazz, Ballet, Go-Go, Pole and of course Burlesque. She's performed and taught with a number of troupes around the world and across the country, even taking home a medal in the dramatic category at the National Pole Championships in 2017. Dee's performed at the Texas, Hawaii, Fierce, Arizona, Ohio and Alaska Burlesque festivals; LA, Houston, Austin and Hawaii salsa congresses; choreographed and been featured in music videos and go go danced for artists Enrique Iglesias and Flo Rida. She created her own signature dance formats Body Beats and Booty Bounce by Dee which she currently teaches locally as well at expos and festivals. She's an award-winning entertainer and co-director of The Pollies, a San Diego based burlesque and entertainment troupe. She is also the director and choreographer for The Lil Sweets, San Diego's Premier Twerk Team. Dance is life for Dee and she loves teaching her wicked booty ways to movers and shakers to help them feel sexy, empowered and to just plain have fun! Her motto is "It's your duty to shake that booty!".
About Willy Barrett
Teacher - Seducing with the Power of the NineTeacher - Owning the Audience's Gaze
The world’s foremost teacher of, and pioneer in, reconstructing the Delsarte System of Expression, used by the early theater choreographers to create the Broadway styles (including the Ziegfeld Follies). Joe's teaching has taken him around the world and he is proud to have taught Delsarte at the National Centre of Dance in Paris, at the Juilliard School, and also at numerous Middle Eastern dance festivals across the US. A great lover of burlesque for many years, he created and regularly performed a stripping gorilla burlesque for several years in Ohio in the late 1980's. Now he looks forward to teaching at the Great Burlesque Expo every year that he can and lends his support to the revival of this beloved, charming art.
