Pastie-Making class with glamourous instructor Peekboo Pointe!
Learn the basics of burlesque costuming, and improve existing costumes!
You'll also learn essential striptease techniques, tassel-twirling, and basic theory to help you choreograph a burlesque performance.
Includes handouts, lectures, discussion, and workshopping your actual costumes.
In this class series:
Where to shop in NYC and online
The essentials of showgirl costuming
How to use color and texture to exaggerate movement
How to make a shimmy costume
How to make and embellish tasselled pasties
How to embellish with rhinestones, feathers, and fringe
How to costume for characters
How to make costume pieces break away
Costuming as choreograpy
Costume pieces as props
Teasing and timing
The Choreography of Events (structuring a burlesque number)
Pastie-Making class with glamourous instructor Peekboo Pointe!
You are recommended to bring photos of your favorite images of burlesque costumes to the first class.
Clippings, books, photos, sketches, anything you like will do.
You will have a shopping assignment, which may be completed online or in the garment district, using the information and resources provided in the first class.
You will have information to shop in NYC and also to shop online if you can't make it to the garment district.
You must have this shopping assignment complete by the third class in order to make your shimmy costume.
Your shopping will most likely cost you $20-30, on up to whatever you wish to spend.
We could make money off of providing the materials for you, but learning how to shop is part of learning to make costumes!
Click below to register.
Although there is no student recital at the end of this class, you will be given showcase dates and opportunities to perform through the school.
LOCATION: 167 Orchard St at Stanton (The Slipper Room).
The Slipper Room is located on the corner of Orchard and Stanton Streets, one block below Houston St., on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
By Cab
It's simplest to tell your driver to drop you on the corner of Orchard and Houston Streets. Walk down Orchard St. one block. For classes you'll enter on the Orchard St side; at night for shows you'll enter on the Stanton Street side.
By Subway
The F / V train is the only subway near us. You'll want the 2nd Avenue stop. Make sure you're at the front of the train if coming from uptown, or the back of the train if coming from Brooklyn.
When you get above ground, you'll be on the corner of Houston and Allen Streets. Walk east on Houston one block to Orchard St. Hang a right on Orchard and walk one block. For classes you'll enter on the Orchard St side; at night for shows you'll enter on the Stanton Street side.
See video of Jo teaching Julie Chang to peel gloves:
Truly Julie at Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art Show
See video of me teaching an audience member to twirl tassels during the Sex Workers' Art Show:
Jo's Bio:
Jo Weldon was recently a featured performer in Margaret Cho's variety show, the Sensuous Woman. She recently served as coach and consultant on the Victor Victrola episode of Gossip Girl. In 2007, the Village Voice named her Best Teacher in their Best of New York issue in Arts and Entertainment. In 2006 she was voted Best Burlesque Teacher and Mentor at the New York Burlesque Festival, and in 2005 she was voted Best Bump N Grinder. She is the judging co-ordinator for the Miss Exotic World Pageant and has been producing at Coney Island's Burlesque at the Beach series for five years. Going back a ways, in the early 1990s she was a feature dancer, traveling across the country with trunks full of props and costumes to headline at strip joints across the US and Canada; she performed her first fan dance in 1991. She also maintains a burlesque blog featuring backstage photos, news items, and interviews at burlesquedaily.blogspot.com.