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Get Ready for the Second Annual Seattle Boylesque Festival
Expect acrobatics, fire performers and straight up stripping at the April 28 and 29 shows
By Seattle Mag April 7, 2016
If you live in Seattle, chances are you’ve heard of burlesque – the sex- and body-positive cabaret-style performance art that includes showing a little (or a lot of) skin. But, what you may not have heard of is boylesque, the all male version of this art form. Interested? Good! Because on Thursday, April 28, and Friday, April 29, Seattle’s second annual Boylesque Festival is happening at Re Bar and the Triple Door.
“I love burlesque,” Jen Gapay, one of the co-organizers of the event, says. “It makes me laugh and it makes me cry, but most of all what inspires me is the freedom of self expression.”
Gapay and her partner, Daniel Nardicio, started the New York Boylesque Festival five years ago and “during that process,” she says, “we noticed a lot of great boylesque performers coming out of Seattle.” Gapay used to live in Seattle and produce shows here so a boylesque festival here was only natural.
Thursday’s show, Gapay says, will be the “teaser party meant to wet your whistle” and will feature host Ernie Von Schmaltz and performances from Brotherhood of Boylesque, EmpeROAR Fabulous and many more. The Triple Door show will be “the main event,” hosted by burlesque and drag performer BenDeLaCreme and will feature Waxie Moon, Mod Carousel, Ben Franklin and more.
“We have aerial, acrobatics, fire performers and just straight up stripping,” Gapay says.
Those interested can get their tickets here. And watch a preview here:
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