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. Moving on to some stylised posing and walking, and then tackling some easy burlesque choreography. We will work on daring ourselves to take pleasure in movement, invite the eyes of the viewer, and keep our sense of humour intact.

Bring heels if you want to.

Edie Nightcrawler is a choreographer and performer, working primarily in Burlesque and nightlife. She delights in creating theatrical spectacles that are body-centric, surprising, and laced with playful absurdity. When not producing cult variety shows, she performs solo across New York City and beyond, appears as a backing 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 mesmerising 24 Decades of Popular Music and was an original cast member of Absinthe at Caesar’s Palace, 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 solo NEWS at 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 number of Miss Exotic World 2017. She has also choreographed Off-Broadway productions, high school musicals, 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 honour of teaching large crowds at Lincoln Center’s Dancing Under the Stars (Nu Disco and House of Burlesque) and, alongside Melanie 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 former danceWEB scholar (2010) and was an assistant to the late and much-loved ballet teacher Janet Panetta.