Join the immeasurable Willow J for two MASSIVE workshops, and SAVE $$ when you book both!
Please keep in mind: This workshop will be taking place at 308 St Georges Road, Thornbury.
🌟 Dance Your Sensual Spirit 🌟
⏰ 2:45pm - 4:15pm
Awaken your erotic expression and let your energy flow with this 1.5-hour workshop designed to get you into your sensual body.
Working in a safe and supportive environment, you will explore Tantric Yogic techniques, movements of the erotic arts and old school burlesque bump n grind to free your sensual spirit. Connect your body and heart through exploring sensual movement allowing you to dance your expression your way.
Please wear comfortable clothes you can move in.
🌟 The Fun of Playfulness 🌟
⏰ 4:30pm - 6pm
Ignite your sense of play and FUN! Through a series of playful exercises, physical games and improvisations, you will explore how to bring life, joy and physicality to characters. Drawing from physical theatre, clowning and bouffon, the workshop aims to get you out of your head and into your BURLY being!
With the word Burlesque meaning: "an absurd or comically exaggerated imitation of something, especially in a literary or dramatic work; a parody," this workshop encourages you to step out of your daily self and into a larger-than-life OTT version of you. Whether that is a sultry siren or the bawdy comical clown, the character that lies within you is waiting to get out! Exploring exaggerated (or grotesque!) movement combined with ‘play', you will enter the workshop as you and exit as someone new! Come and find out just who (or what!) it is inside you that is bursting to come out and play!
Please note: Idiocy, stupidity, big fails and ridiculousness are very welcome!!
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About Your Instructor
Known for her innovative and provocative acts, Willow entered the world of burlesque in 2002 as a member of the notorious, award winning neo-burlesque troupe Voodoo Trash Dolls. With passion and commitment to exploring the art of eroticism, Willow has been bumpin' her butt off and sharing her bawdy, comical and sometimes dark and twisted tales with audiences around the globe ever since! A story teller with a background in acting and training in many different dance and movement forms including tango, bouffon, clowning, butoh, and martial arts, Willow J combines these skills to create highly physicalised, unique, and larger-than-life characters.
A "mover, shaker and innovator" Willow has performed in 100’s of theatre, film and Burlesque productions including prestigious event such as Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender – Las Vegas (BHoF, 2013 and 2018), The London Burlesque Festival, Green Room Award Winning production, DasSHOKU SHAKE! (Australia, Tokyo and Osaka), The Aussie Flim Flam Japanese Burlesque Revue and The Australian Burlesque Festival (touring headliner 2018) to name a few! With a love of wild, strong and provocative women in history who have paved the erotic way, Willow created and directed two successful sell-out seasons of The Living Museum of Erotic Women (2014, 2015). Keeping in line with wild, strong provocative women, she is now the front person of the post-punk, neo-pop, theatrical feminist group The BandShe. With a passion for teaching and sharing skills and knowledge, Willow can’t wait to bring her specialised workshop intensives to Maison Burlesque!