Fab Friday Workshops: 60s Grind with Domino de Jour
✨ Welcome to FAB FRIDAY WORKSHOPS at MAISON BURLESQUE THORNBURY ✨
As we warm up from the cold, we want to break in the new studio in style!
Join us every Friday for a 90min fun and fabulous workshop, complete with a glass of bubbles! 🥂
Friday 13th September 2024
6:15pm - 7:45pm
60s Grind
At the end of the 60s burlesque started to shift, nudity was becoming more common and the modern strip club started to take shape. Gogo was rising, costumes were getting smaller and the big stage was no more.
60s grind is here with a little history to honor those that came before us, a little gogo to keep you warm and deep grinds and uninhibited burlesque movements to embody the raw sexuality of the late 60s and early 70s.
For all levels, Bring water, dance heels and feel free to wear something you can shimmy and shake in.
About your instructor:
Burlesque artist, producer and self proclaimed revolutionary, Domino de Jour has been destroying burlesque stages since 2014. With a childhood spent in heels, as a competitive ballroom and latin dancer, she is no stranger to a competition. Holding the titles of Miss Burlesque Melbourne 2016 and Showgirl of the Year at the Miss Burlesque Australia 2016 competition, she now produces Mx Burlesque Victoria and The Apprentease, providing space for both new and established performers to grow their art.
Deeply passionate about cultivating space for whatever stage of your burlesque journey you are on, Domino has been teaching at Maison Burlesque since 2017, holding the hands of beginners in Fundamentals yet pushing you in the deep end in all her other classes. Maintaining her aggressively supportive, yet sometimes terrifying, attitude of ‘If I can teach a teenage boy to foxtrot, I can teach you anything’.
A multi faceted performer, her style can be described in the same way as her tipple of choice (good bourbon on the rocks): surprisingly classic for something that looks like it should smack you in the face.
What her students say “Domino is a fierce, no-shit-taking, powerhouse of a woman who puts a real life hourglass to shame with her hip to waist ratio. An unapologetically bold performer and ferociously supportive of her students. She’s the Barbie doll you wished your Barbie doll could be."