5: Blacking Out and Lighting Up with Doll Body

WEBURLESQUE

Viktor Devonne chats with Doll Body, a burlesque performer living in Brooklyn... We cover topics including Connecticut, moving to New York, choreography, modern dance, Alvin Ailey, Boardwalk Empire, old Hollywood iconography, punk phases, the New York Burlesque Festival, starting burlesque wrong, Lazy Bones Burlesque, Dolly Dietrich, the 2016 election, Marlene Dietrich, femme androgyny, drag kings, rugged Hunter S. Thompson, ruddy makeup, Action Figure, body analysis, collages, Boomerang, dressing up as a banana, soft sculpture, today's corduroy, the Freezing Tassel Burlesque Festival, Alaska, industry shows, 2014 vs 2018, living with drag queens, queer spaces, the body positive movement, all-white shows, classic tease, flipping the switch, Barbra Streisand, doing the fun numbers, control, cultural shifts, and being sexy and exercised... recorded: Feb 3, 2018... shoutouts: Lewd Alfred Douglas, Delysia La Chatte, Lux LaCroix, Shelley Watson, Minnie Tonka, Beef Show, Lee VaLone, Qualms Galore, Celia Foxglove, Dick Jones, Lillian Bustle, Petite Renard, Dangrrr Doll, Wae Messed, Bunny Buxom, Fancy Feast, Zoe Ziegfeld, Anja Keister, Miss AuroraBOOBrealis, Sweet Lorraine... Doll Body has been performing since 2014, in a modern dance major and choreographer turned burlesque performer and producer. She can be seen all New York City, and joins the Freezing Tassel Burlesque Festival in Alaska this March... music: "On A 45" written and performed by This Way to the Egress (intro and outro music); interludes: "Rocket Power" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/