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Well we certainly have been receiving quite a bit of media attention lately! With our upcoming show Dear Santa, we have been creating a stir amongst the press!

Our students, the "Peach Blossoms", as well as myself and Sapphire Snow brought some glitz to the pages of the City Messenger this week, accompanied by a fabulous interview with Sapphire Snow.



The "Peach Blossoms" also graced the pages of Adelaide Confidential, in the Advertiser, accompanied by interviews with our headline artist Rosy Rabbit and Peach Blossom Amity Nightingale.



You can also read the article online here.

And as if that wasn't enough, Sapphire Snow can be found in the next edition of Kryztoff Magazine, and I will be appearing in the Jan/Feb edition of Marie Claire magazine.

If you want to see what all the fuss is about, you better head over to Venuetix and pick up your tickets for Dear Santa!

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I'm back!

Hello ladies and gentlemen!

I'm BACK! Exams are over, I've been on a sweet dancing holiday, and I'm swinging into some really fabulous events and projects. I'm not going to be able to catch you up on everything I've been up to, but I will try and fill you in on some of the gossip!

Firstly, as you can see, I din't die from the stress of exams, but actually came out feeling fairly confident. This is the end of my undergrad and I am one step closer to making dancing and other manner of fabulousness my full time occupation. I celebrated my sweet freedom by taking a dancing trip to Melbourne for the 10th Melbourne Lindy Exchange, which is a huge swing dancing event, where hundreds of swing dance enthusiasts converge on Melbourne for 4 nights. I won't go into too much detail, as I'm hoping to revive my Lindy blog The Lunar Lounge, which has been dead for a while. On the Saturday night though, there was a USO ball at a hangar at Essendon airport, and there were some fabulous costumes. Sapphire and I love a good dress up.



In honour of my excitement for this theme, the last class I taught at the Peaches 'n' Gin Burlesque Academy was a military theme to everyone's favourite Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy by The Andrews Sisters.. Here are some pics to get you saluting!



The Andrews Sisters rally the troops. Image sourced from here.



Image sourced from here.



Image sourced from here. This link actually has an awesome article about women working unorthodox jobs in wartime.

There are some very exciting things coming up this month, including our next show "Dear Santa", starring burlesque sensation, Rosy Rabbit! I'll be blogging a little more about her later. This show is set to be a cracker (haha! Bring on the cheesy Christmas puns!), with a wide variety of acts.



Rosy Rabbit will also be teaching workshops while she is here, and I am very excited about that! The Adelaide burlesque scene is quite small, and I think an influx of some fresh talent and technique is going to be fabulous. You can find out all the details about the show and the workshops on our website. You can also get more information by email info@peachesngin.com or phoning 0431 949 703 or 0402 273 745. You can buy tickets from Venuetix.

Peaches 'n' Gin also have some other exciting projects and productions coming up, and I also have some individual awesomeness to pursue, but you'll have to wait to hear about it!

Until next time,

Happy teasing!

Luna


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Academy follow up: Vintage Hair and Sexy Chairs

Hello ladies,

Sorry I've been so busy lately that it's taken me a while to do a follow up of our recent classes at Peaches 'n' Gin Burlesque Academy, so I'm combining the last two weeks!

Vintage Hair

Sapphire took us through some vintage hair techniques, and I know a lot of you left feeling a little frustrated! Don't despair, it just takes patience and practice. Soon a vintage do will become your 5 minute throw together and everyone will think you are pretty spiffy! To get you inspired, here are some of my favourite photos of vintage dos-just a few (click on the links below the images to see their source). For inspiration, typing "vintage hair" or "pin up hair" into Google images will bring you hours of perusing entertainment.


Image sourced here


Image sourced here


Image sourced here

There are a lot of online tutorials which are incredibly useful. Here are a couple you can play around with.

This works for shorter hair:



A more in-depth tutorial:



And this gal has stacks of awesome tutorials, I recommend watching them all!



Just remember everyone is different, and different methods work for different kinds of hair. It's a good idea to get a grasp of the basics and then adapt styles to suit your own hair, rather then rigidly following a particular style. At least, that's what I found works for me. There are also a lot of books on the matter, a search on Amazon will turn up many.

Just remember, practice makes perfect!

Sexy Chairs

This week I took the Academy ladies through a saucy chair routine. Remember if you are going to do a chair routine you need to have a solid, sturdy chair that is not going to fall over or twist when you try and do something fancy on it. Second hand stores are a great place to find sturdy, unique chairs. I recommend McKay's Mart on Unley Rd, they have fabulous bits and pieces. But there are many fabulous stores around.
Here are a few of the clips I mentioned in class, to get you off your arse! (or back on it, as it were....)



Mein Herr in Cabaret...my absolute favourite of all time!
I can't embed it so click here to watch the video

And here is one from Australia's own Sugar Blue Burlesque, based in Perth.



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Lili St. Cyr

This post kind of follows on from my last post about some of the legends of Burlesque. I mentioned in class that I don't really know much about Lili St. Cyr, so I decided to educate myself a little! It was whilst reading a fantastic blog called Daily Burlesque, which is written by Jo Weldon, headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque, that I came across a post of hers with a link to an interview with Lili St. Cyr from 1957, on The Mike Wallace Interview. The interview is fascinating, as Lili talks about her disillusionment of the burlesque industry, and how keen she is to get out of it! At the time of this interview she has been doing burlesque for about 16 years, and I'm very interested to know more about her!

A screenshot taken from the interview, which you can reach by clicking here.

A book was written about her by Kelly DiNardo, called The Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique. Jo Weldon interviewed Kelly DiNardo about the book and DiNardos experience with Burlesque, and it's a great read! I am very intrigued and so will be getting my hands on a copy of the book post haste!

Click here to buy the book!

And to finish here is a gorgeous video of Lili, it's been edited which annoys me, but you can still see her gorgeousness.


Happy Teasing!

Luna

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Legends of burlesque class!

This week at the Peaches 'n' Gin Burlesque Academy we had a bit of a burlesque history lesson, discussing some of the legends of burlesque. I think knowing the history of burlesque is really important for understanding and respecting the origins of the art form we all adore! In no particular order...

Tempest Storm
What I adore about Tempest Storm is her grace and elegance, and she is so darn alluring! Tempest Storm has one of the longest careers in burlesque, with her last performance only just last year. She told her story in the book The Lady is a Vamp".


Dixie Evans
Can you say sexy? Golly gosh! Dixie makes me all hot under the collar. Dixie Evans is an amazing, amazing woman. She is the curator of The Burlesque Hall of Fame and has done so much for the modern burlesque revival. She is famous for her Marilyn Munroe burlesque, which she performed throughout her entire career. Recently she taught the act to Kitten DeVille who performed it as a tribute to her.


Jennie Lee
The Burlesque Hall of Fame's collection began from Jennie Lee's personal collection of items from the golden era of burlesque. She passed away in 1990, but the work she did for the burlesque community is legendary. Her pectoral muscles are also legendary!


Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee was one of the most successful burlesque performers, celebrated as a striptease artist, actress, singer, and all round entertainer. There has been numerous books and movies about her life, all worth reading and watching. It was because of her "high class" striptease that the term ecdysiast was created by H. L. Mencken, however she was happy with the term "stripper". She was known for her humour and wit on stage, which can be clearly seen in this clip of her from the movie "Stage Door Canteen".


There are other legends to mention, which will come in part 2 of this post!

Happy Teasing!

Luna

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Welcome to the Peaches 'n' Gin Blog!

Welcome to the fabulous world of Peaches 'n' Gin Burlesque! I decided to start a P&G blog to let you know what we're up to outside of the world of burlesque, as well as update you with all the burlesque news and gossip as soon as we hear it! I'll be posting lots of cool stuff I find, so make sure you stick around and see what's on offer.

The last few months have been crazy busy, and it's impossible to recap all the stuff we have done. The biggest highlight was performing in the Australian Burlesque Festival. We had such a great time and came away so inspired. If you didn't make it along this time I highly recommend you get along next year. I have a lot of ideas now for our upcoming production...details of which will be revealed soon!


Our latest project is preparing for the Miss Burlesque Australia SA heats, happening Sunday the 25th of July. We've both been busy burlesque bees. Personally, I've been biting my nails, changing my music everyday, and sequinning till my fingers bleed. Am I being overdramatic? Well there some pretty amazing dancers in this competition from SA, WA and NSW. It's going to be a cracker of a night! We'd love to see you there, with Peaches 'n' Gin banners, tshirts, knickers, ya know...whatever takes your fancy ;)


We are also extremely excited about our upcoming classes! We have lots of fun stuff planned. Our first free class has actually booked out. If you'd still like to come though, drop us a line at info@peachesngin.com. If we have enough interest we are going to run a second free class at 7.45pm, with performances in the middle. So get down and shake your thang!


Anyway, that's all for now!

Happy Teasing

Luna Eclipse xx

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