Flirtation with Burlesque

Everyone is welcome to explore their flirty side! Class begins with a sexy standing warm-up focusing on isolations, shimmies, bumps, and grinds. We’ll move on to some stylized posing and walking, and then tackle some easy burlesque choreography. We’ll work on daring ourselves to find joy in movement, draw the viewer’s gaze, and keep our sense of humor intact.

Bring heels if you’d like.

Edie Nightcrawler is a choreographer and performer who works primarily in burlesque and nightlife. She delights in creating theatrical spectacles that are body-centric, surprising, and laced with playful absurdity. When she’s not producing cult variety shows, she performs solo throughout New York City and beyond, appears as a backup dancer for Sasha Velour and Amanda Lepore, and can be found on YouTube as Comedy Central’s Succubus. She also makes occasional appearances in Taylor Mac’s mesmerizing*24 Decades of Popular Music*and was an original cast member of*Absinthe*at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas.

As a contemporary dancer, Edie has worked with choreographers Stanley Love, Greg Zuccolo, Glen Rumsey, Kraig Patterson, Julie Atlas Muz,Liz Santoro, and Vanessa Walters, and has performed Deborah Hay’s soloNEWSat the Whitney Museum of American Art.

As a choreographer, she has created numerous works for children, non-dancers, and burlesque performers, as well as large-scale events. Notable projects include a French television commercial directed by Michel Gondry, a fashion show featuring Robert Rauschenberg’s costumes commissioned by the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and the title-winning routine for Miss Exotic World 2017. She has also choreographed Off-Broadway productions, high school musicals, and fashion spectacles, and collaborates on the Attention Deficit Disorder Cabaret at Joe’s Pub and the Bard College Spiegel Tent. Recently, she collaborated with Jennifer Kjos on*Glamour Shot*at Domain Name in Ridgewood.

Edie has had the honor of teaching large audiences at Lincoln Center’s“Dancing Under the Stars”(Nu Disco and House of Burlesque) and, alongsideMelanie Maar, leading their workshop“Sense Appeal: Erotics in Performance”at ImPulsTanz and Movement Research. She currently teaches at the New York School of Burlesque.

Edie is a formerdanceWEBscholar (2010) and served as an assistant to the late and much-loved ballet teacherJanet Panetta.