Montreal Burlesque Damiana Dolce

Blue Light Burlesque is proud to feature Toronto’s Sauci Calla Horra.

English version will  follow.

Blue Light fête l’Halloween! Venez costumé faite partie de la fête, surprise à la porte pour les 50 premières personnes!

Arrivez tôt! shooter 5 pour 10$ de 19h à 19h45 !!
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Sur la scène du BLB ce mois-ci: Sauci Calla Horra (Toronto), Miss Rouge à Lèvres, Damiana Dolce, Miss Miah, Malefice, Lady Josephine, les nouvelles; Trixie Cups et Red Rocket, notre MC Pierre DuRein, Blue Eyes et Mlle Oui Oui

Concours de twist costumé : gagnez un certificat-cadeau de Marina Vintage Style Photography, pasties fait main par Mlle Oui Oui et certificat-cadeau pour un cours d’effeuillage avec Oui Oui!

À l’entracte : Procurez-vous une photo de votre artiste du BLB préféré et faites-la autographier juste pour vous!

En vente sur place : Pasties fait main par Oui Oui

20$ plus frais de service, en pré-vente au Café Campus, sur Admission ou le soir même à la porte!

Blue Light celebrates Halloween and invites you to take part in the festivities! Door prizes will be awarded to the first fifty ‘ghouls and gals’ who show up in a costume.

Featuring: Sauci Calla Horra (Toronto), Miss Rouge à Lèvres, Damiana Dolce, Miss Miah, Malefice, Lady Josephine, newcomers Trixie Cups and Red Rocket, our MC Pierre DuRein, Blue Eyes and Mlle Oui Oui Encore.

Take part of our “Costumed Twist Dance Contest” and you could win a gift certificate from Marina Vintage Style Photography, a voucher for Mlle Oui Oui Encore Burlesque-style striptease class and to top it off, a pair of her own hand-made pasties!

During the intermission, you can get a personalized autographed photo from one of your favourite BLB artists. Also for sale during the show: hand-made pasties from our very crafty Mlle Oui Oui Encore!

Tickets are on sale now at Café Campus ( 514-844-1010) or Admission (514) 790-1245. Tickets also available at the door, on night of the show: 20.00$ plus service charges.

Dear Audience, you are so full of awesome that just thinking about last night makes me want to throw up rainbows and unicorns. Thank you so much for coming out for the show!!!!!

xxDDxx
You’ve got nothing to lose but your clothes-

“Damiana Dolce – Montreal’s Burlesque Chanteuse Extraordinaire!
Sultry songs from the gal who’s been known to get what even Lola couldn’t!”
-Canadian Wolfman

Dear Canadian Wolfman, I ❤ You

Starlight Burlesque cordially invites you to an evening of top Classical Burlesque entertainment! Featuring Toronto’s most illustrious and glamorous burlesque beauties, rising stars and International guests. Starlight Burlesque was touted to be a must see event! We are always the top spot on every burlesque calendar nation-wide with sell out shows.

Expect only the very best in sizzling Striptease, Vaudeville Variety and Burlesque Pageantry during this glamorous evening in Toronto! Starlight Burlesque offers the beauty and prestige of a bygone era but updated for your modern enjoyment!

August 20th, 2010
at
the Great Hall
(1087 Queen St West)
$25 in advance or $30 at the door

(VIP tickets available, $45 in advance which includes the best possible seating, one free martini and a free autographed photo of Starlight Burlesque)

ADVANCED TICKETS ONLINE ONLY AT:

http://sb.eventbrite.com/

Accompanied live by the George Lake Swing Band

Starring the 2009 reigning queen of Burlesque -Perle Noire (the Black Pearl) from Louisana

Montreal’s Sweetheart of the Striptease – Mlle Oui Oui Encore

Making her debut as the ingénue of Starlight Burlesque – the electrifying Keela Watts!

Plus all of the lovely ladies of Starlight Burlesque…
St. Stella
Emmanuelle La Gitane
Esther De Ville
&
Virginia D’Vine

And of Course, myself, Damiana Dolce

Hosted by the most rib-tickling comedians in Vaudeville…Parker and Seville!

Dress to impress and come with us to a time where vintage glamour and opulence were the every day norm.

DJ’d Afterparty

I am proud to be performing at the Toronto Burlesque Festival this year.

The Festival features the finest in burlesque entertainment, film screenings, the literary event, “Naked Girls Reading,” a Photography Exhibit, Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, a Burlesque Bra Auction for Breast Cancer, Tease ‘n Twirl Marketplace and a full curriculum of workshops for beginners and experienced performers alike at our Burlesque University .

I will be performing 2 nights:

Thursday, July 22nd Launch Party (including Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show, Photo Exhibit, Marketplace and Bra Auction)

The Gladstone Hotel. 12 14 Queen St. W.

Friday, July 23rd Glamour Gala featuring Legend of Burlesque, SATAN’s ANGEL.

Revival Nightclub. 783 College St.

Headliners of the festival include:

* SATAN’S ANGEL (Legend of Burlesque; Recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award at Burlesque Hall of Fame, 2009)

* MICHELLE L’AMOUR (Miss Exotic World 2005; Creator of Naked Girls Reading)

* TIGGER! (First Mr. Exotic World, 2006)

* ROXI DLITE (1st Runner-Up, Burlesque Hall of Fame 2009, Miss Exotic World 2010)

* DR. LUCKY (New York School of Burlesque)

* JULIE ATLAS MUZ(Whitney Biennial Artist, 2004; Valencia Biennial Artist, 2005)

* MISS ASTRID(Emcee; Compere; Moderator; Comedienne; Singer)

* JO “BOOBS” WELDON(Author; Headmistress – New York School of Burlesque)

For more info: www.torontoburlesquefestival.com

Over at Burlesque Daily a couple of weeks ago, Jo was introduced to this inquiry

“Why do you think so many of todays Burlesque performers don’t take pride in keeping their body in shape? Is burlesque really just an excuse for some out of shape women to take their clothes off and try to feel good about themselves?”

to which she gave a sharp smart response.
Love her.

I find it heartbreaking that there are people even in burlesque who believe that only the “fittest” have the right to feel good about themselves (as though that’s all there were to be confident about in life anyway…) and that the rest are left to try and find an excuse to do the same.

This seems to be part of a theme these days that has really started to get me down.

In my eyes, Burlesque is a sexy, interactive, humourous and theatrical outlet for creative expression and self celebration. While drawn to the glamour and rhinestones like a crow to a tin pie pan, my favorite acts are still, more often than not, those that stay true to the vaudevillian tone of parody and theatrics; the acts that are acts.

Lately I’m starting to feel like burlesque is fighting a trend to lean away from it’s roots and morph into a Las Vegas showgirl pageant style competition. Performers seem to be under more and more pressure lately to look like Burlesque barbie dolls, with “perfect” bodies, eating disorders and implants.

Am I the only one who is worried that burlesque is going to get hijacked by society’s superficial standards, like almost everything else in North America?

For bookings and queries, please e-mail:dd@damianadolce.com

Damiana Dolce

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Damiana Dolce has been singing and acting from the age of 8 years old.
She has appeared as a stand up comic and emcee, sung with the Maha Women’s Choir, made numerous guest appearances performing and recording with punk rock bands, crooning Country and rockabilly tunes, appeared independently in several burlesque shows, cabarets, dinner theaters and festivals throughout North America.

She began performing, and touring, as a member of the Fluffgirl Burlesque Revue in 2003, is the co-founder and former co-producer of Montreal’s Diary of a Lost Circus Burlesque Cabaret, and appears in a handful of short independent and feature length films.