Dr. Lucky

About me:

Please see WWW.DOCTOROFBURLESQUE.COM or www.facebook.com/doctorlucky .. Dr. Lucky is a seasoned performer, producer and educator. Over the past 10 years, Lucky has carved a space for herself with her unique comedic timing and over-the-top theatricality. She has been hailed a “big, bad, bold drag queen" by Bust magazine and has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, NY1, Time.com, Washington Post, among others. Career highlights include co-hosting the Miss Exotic World Competition, headlining (and crowd surfing!) the New York Burlesque Festival, headlining the Toronto Burlesque Festival, sharing the stage with the Flaming Lips in front of 10,000 adoring fans (Virgin Music Festival), and performing at the Establishment (Rothbury Music Festival). Lucky is happy to collaborate with Julie Atlas Muz in their monthly show, Wanted! Wild Bandits of Burlesque and with Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey in their evening-length mystery show, “Dial P for Pasties.” Though a huge fan of hyperbole, the prefix to her name is the one "real" thing about her: she is the only burlesque performer in the world with a PhD. For the past five years, she has taught unsuspecting drama students at New York University how to twirl tassels and think critically about burlesque. ..Dr. Lucky’s (Brief) Resume of Classes: .. She has given lectures and taught practicum workshops about burlesque at New York University, CUNY, Miss Exotic World, The New York School of Burlesque, Toronto Burlesque Festival, Movement Research, City Paper (Washington, DC), Palace of Wonders, Performance Studies International, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, North East Popular Culture Association, and the Carnal Knowledge Conference, among others. .. Sample Practicum/Performance Workshops:.. • Advanced Act Development • Persona and Character Development • Melodrama • Pasty Making and Tassel Twirling • Pilates (Certified Beginner and Intermediate Mat Class, Power Pilates) • Burlesque Moves & Choreography • Act Feedback • Burlesque for the Boudoir.. Sample Lectures:.. “Naked as the New ‘Ethnological Village’: In Situ Display at the Century of Progress Expositions” (forthcoming, PCA/ACA, 2009).. “What is Burlesque; What is Burlesque; What is Burlesque?” (CUNY, 2009).. “History of American Burlesque, 1860s-1930s,” (BurlyCon, 2008).. “Performing Naked Ladies on the Gayway and the Amusement Zone at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York Worlds Fair, 1939-40” (PCA/ACA, 2008).. “Ephemeral Scenes: Unveiling the Female Form at World’s Fairs” (PCA/ACA, 2007).. “‘It is the Ugly that is so Beautiful’: Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo-Burlesque” (Carnal Knowledge Conference, 2007; PSi International, 2008; CUNY, 2008).. “Girls! Girls! Girls! The World of Tomorrow” at the New York World’s Fairs, 1939-40 (NEPCA, 2005; Exotic World, 2006).. Class Lectures:.. • Emergence of American Burlesque: Lydia Thompson and the British Blondes • Burlesque Influences: Vaudeville, Minstrelsy and Feminized Spectacle • Commodification of the Exotic and World’s Fairs: Little Egypt, Salome, Loie Fuller, & Ruth St. Denis • “Burlesque at Century’s End”: Wheels, Working Class and Women’s World(s) • Glorifying the American Girl: The Birth of the Ziegfeld Show Girl • Minsky’s Burlesque & Burlesque on the Big White Way • Outlawing Burlesque in New York City: Moral Reform & The Midway • Burlesque goes Visual: Burlesque Films, Pin Up & Patriotism • Performing Personas & The Queens of Burlesque: Gypsy Rose Lee • Demystifying Striptease in Strip Clubs • “Mother Camp”: Drag & Burlesque • “Is that a DUDE?”: Performing Gender, Gender Performativity .. ..
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