Classes taught by Gin Fizz in Chicago, IL

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Specialty: Solo Costuming

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This 90 minute weekly class is aimed at helping solo performers design and create a professional, unique costume. Learn to design a costume to suit your solo, set a budget, source pieces, and alter and embellish to completion. Each week will focus on a specific crafting skill, with time allotted to give help and feedback for each member's costume. Can be taken before or in conjunction with Developing Solos, or independently. All skill levels wel...

All levels 18 and older

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Pasty Making & Twirling

Vaudezilla Studios @ 3330 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL

In this 90 minute party workshop, make and twirl your own pasties with me! I’ll show you how to make a pair of pasties just like the ones I sell in my Etsy Gift Shop, as well as how I’ve twirled them in six countries (and counting). Let go of inhibitions and join the party!

All levels 18 and older

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$33.33

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Slow & Tease-y

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This workshop will help you learn find the confidence it takes to embrace the sensuality of stillness. Whether you freeze up or freak out when performing, it's difficult to be motionless on stage. Learning to project control and emotion in those moments is an indispensable skill you'll learn in this class. This course is designed to help you channel a strong, slow, sexiness that will help you take your burlesque routines to the next level.

All levels 18 and older

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Learning to Face(book) Your Fears About Social Media

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Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world and is still growing. It's not only an active community, but, for many people, it's a staple of their social life. Understanding the ins and outs of how to utilize Facebook's events, messaging, and advertising features can make and break businesses of all shapes and size. This workshop is going to go over the large basics of what you need to know to begin to open your business and...

All levels 18 and older

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The Art of Asking

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The hoots, hollers, and wild appause from the audience can be one of the most gratifying parts of burlesque. This class teaches an ethic of interaction and reciprocity with the audience, focusing on learning how to earn audience feedback and let the audience know when it's time to cheer. Make your "Wow!" moments land harder, and keep your character up from your first step on stage to the flutter close of the curtains.

All levels 18 and older

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Dirty DIY: Advanced Pasty Making

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Ever wonder how your favorite burlesque performers get such extravagant costumes? The answer is, more often than not, a lot of DIY! The Dirty DIY series is here to teach you to make your very own costume. Ready to take your pasty game to the next level? Need a shape that isn't your standard heart or circle? You'll learn to use a free computer program to create a pasty pattern that's unique to you. You'll also learn some advanced-level tricks to making...

Intermediate 18 and older

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Strut & Strip

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Great for beginners, but all levels are welcome! Elevate confidence and nurture your sensuality with burlesque striptease! We'll incorporate classic struts, bumps, wines, and grinds into a bawdy routine celebrating your inner diva. Students can expect a warm-up, exercises in movement and stage presence in addition to learning choreography for a salacious group act at the end of the session. Heels recommended. This class offers the opportunity for...

All levels 18 and older

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