For Rachel Gourd, the creation of House of Verlaine represents quite a midcareer shifting of gears. Gourd is more commonly known as Seattle burlesque star Lily Verlaine, whose newly formed dance ...

Lincoln Jones hopped off a skateboard and hurried toward afternoon rehearsal. His dancers, dressed in black and wearing heels, waited along a window near a laptop that played the score of “Burlesque,” ...

Joan Arline - former Sexquire cover girl, who toured the country as a headliner during the golden era of the burlesque circuit from 1953-1958, will perform her acclaimed night club and cabaret show ...

Ballet Northwest resumes its tradition of staging a full-length ballet for Mother’s Day weekend with “Swan Lake,” opening Friday, May 6. Julie Alonso Courtesy photo Ballet Northwest resumes its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: The Slutcracker, the feminist burlesque retelling of Tchaikovsky’s famed 1890s ballet The Nutcracker which has run for ...

Believe it or not, we're down to less than two weeks to Christmas Day. If this rapidly approaching date makes you feel anxious because there's still so much to do, relax. Don't let the Yuletide chaos ...

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Anyone familiar with the burlesque scene in Buffalo has heard the name Jamie “Miss J” Doktor. Jamie first got her start in burlesque back in the days of Roxy’s as a co-founding member of The ...