"Shimmy up the Burlesque Ladder: How to Get Booked"
$15 per person
March 6th, 2016
4pm
New to burlesque? Dying to get your creative self up on stage? Never fear! Darlinda Just Darlinda is here! With 10 years performing on the stages of NYC, Darlinda was a natural at getting booked. You'll learn all the correct ways to get gigs like; what to do at shows to get producers excited about booking you, how to create a buzz/promote yourself, how to find your niche within the existing community, and what NOT to do! Bring and open mind and a writing tablet, you'll want to take notes!
About Darlinda:
Darlinda Just Darlinda “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza” has been working as a Burlesque Performer and Producer locally(NYC) and nationally since 2003.Darlinda also performs in Off Broadway and television.In October 2009 Darlinda participated in Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge(Obie) as The Bride Love. She can be found on television; in Season 1, Episode 6 of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire as “Upscale Whore #1.”She’s crossed over into performance art with her year long “life as art” projects, “The Year in Rainbow” and most recently “The Year in Dance.” In Darlinda was honored to perform with Julie Atlas Muz at PS122 in The Divine Comedy of an Exquisite Corpse.Darlinda is one half of the Burlesque duo The Schlep Sisters, co producing such shows as Menorah Horah and The Burning Bush vs.The Second Coming. Darlinda is also a proud co-producer and member of the national touring group The Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go-Go. Voted in the Top 100 Burlesque dancers in the world, she is also the proud winner of the Liz Renay look-a-like contest and the recipient of the 2009 Golden Pastie Awards for The Biggest Hair and Most Innovative and Creative! Darlinda is a current faculty member at the New York School of Burlesque. In October of 2007 Darlinda participated in the Feminist Neo-Burlesque Symposium at The Central School of Speech and Drama at the University of London.
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