Pinup Parlour. Burlesque Boudoir.
* WE'VE MOVED *
Level 1, 48-50 Bridge Rd
Richmond VIC 3121
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Meet ourTeachers
- Learn from the best in Melbourne Burlesque!
Maison Burlesque is excited to be a hub for Melbourne Burlesque, featuring a carefully curated collective of professional burlesque performers, dance teachers and special guests to create Australia's largest burlesque school with around 30 weekly classes plus regular special events! Our aim is to provide a fun and supportive community atmosphere where students can feel free to express themselves, build skills and stage confidence and most of all have fun!
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All teachers are also available for private tuition. For private tuition please contact your instructor directly. If you are not sure who is best suited to your needs just contact us on info@maisonburlesque.com.au and we can help you work out who is the best fit your you.
Read on to find out more about our resident instructors...
Poppy Cherry
Classes Taught:
Feather Fan Dance, Flirting with Fans, Business for Burlesque & Bump Grind & Tease
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Maison Burlesque owner and school headmistress, Poppy has been a regular fixture on the Melbourne Burlesque scene both on and off the stage since 2009, and is known for her energetic, theatrical take on classic burlesque.
Poppy has also produced many successful Burlesque events, including "Stage Fright!" "Oktoberfest Burlesque", "Burlesque DeVine" and many more. Poppy has worked as the Entertainment Manager at Burlesque Bar & The Burlesque Showboat and the Stage Manager for the Australian Burlesque Festival National Tour.
Poppy has extensive experience running burlesque workshops and classes, and always creates a fun, warm learning environment. Poppy Cherry brings the spirit of burlesque to life in her classes with her vivacious nature and extensive experience as a performer. As a teacher she always encourages her students to grow, providing them with the support and patience they need to blossom. Her students can expect a great balance between fun and hard work to help them advance their skills.
Velma Vouloir
Classes Taught:
Burly Flex, Xtra Flex, Showgirl Follies & Erotic Grind
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A classic burlesque artist from Melbourne, Velma Vouloir is the golden-age glamazon with a penchent for seduction and all things quintessentially showgirl! Taking the burlesque world by storm in 2017, she has already a string of accolades under her garter belt including Miss Burlesque Victoria 2018 & Miss Burlesque Australia - Miss Classic 2018.
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An established dance & aerial arts instructor - Velma has trained & performed extensively in classical, commercial, lyrical & broadway jazz, pole, & aerial hoop. She has nearly ten years of teaching experience under her belt, teaching both in Australia and internationally. She believes everyone has the right to dance & move unapologetically and has a passion for creating nurturing, fun and challenging classes for her students.
Alluring, sophisticated & full of curves, you had better watch out for this ‘grand belle’…they say the sweetest smile can be the deadliest.
Egson Ham
Classes Taught:
Boylesque, Dirty Jazz & Fit & Fierce
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Egson Ham, crowned Mr Boylesque Australia 2015, lights up the stage as one of Australia’s most sought after boylesque performers!
Specialising in a mix of dance, comedy and burlesque, he is known for his dynamic versatility, creative mind and large chin. Since being crowned, he has toured Australia, performing at Falls Festival, Rainbow Serpent Festival, The 86 Bar, Speakeasy HQ and was resident dancer with the Greyhound’s Boylesque. Egson is also a seasoned musical theatre performer and commercial dancer, who tours Australia regularly with large scale productions.
Whether you are an absolute beginner, or professional wanting to further your training, students in his classes can expect wild fun, sweat, hard work and always treated as professionals.
Maple Rose
Classes Taught:
Feather Fan Dance, Roaring 20s Burlesque, Vintage Varietease & Burlesque Basic
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This beacon of Canadian wonderment, this shimmering Aurora Borealis, has been described as the unwanted lovechild of Tempest Storm and Lucille Ball. She’s Australia’s classiest piece of bacon on stage, entertaining audiences with her silly "go-get em'" attitude.
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Miss Maple Rose combines her professional expertise in costume and set design with her foundation in classical dance to guide budding performance artists in the art of tease! Winner of the the 1st Runner Up crown at Miss Burlesque Australia 2018 and voted Best Solo Artist and Most Classic at the Australian Burlesque Industry Awards, The Busties, in 2018 - Maple has shown Australia she's one tornado with her feather fans and glittery costumes!
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Iva Grande
Classes Taught:
Strip Hop, Neo Burlesque
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The rising star on the burlesque scene, but no stranger to the stage, Iva Grande is a feisty dance-school outcast and she is ready to please. A lifetime devoted to dance but shunned for her love of gyrating, Iva found herself at the doors of Maison Burlesque begging for acceptance. Time has passed in a flurry of sparkle and derriere grinding while her love for burlesque became strong. Following her debut of TEETH in 2017 Iva is dancing up a storm around Melbourne - a Burlesque Showboat regular, Australian Burlesque Festival, Velvet Grind, The Menagerie and multiple Red Light Confidential shows. Her biggest achievement to date is winning first place at the New Follies show as part of the Australian Burlesque Festival this year.
Iva also has an extensive teaching background in dance, with 10+ years under her belt. She holds a diploma in Dance Teaching and Performance with her favourite styles being jazz, hip hop, lyrical and music theatre. Seeing dancers grow while bringing choreography to life is her biggest passion (besides performing of course) and if you had to describe her teaching style, she is the birth child of Abby Lee and Mr G...
Juniper Fox
Classes Taught: Chair Dance, Ballet for Burlesque, Low & Limber, Body Language
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Qualified dance, yoga, fitness and pilates instructor Juniper Fox is bringing her unique brand of dynamic tease to Maison Burlesque in 2019! From an early age Juniper was surrounded by the tutus of classical ballet and the glitz of technical jazz – and has been dancing and performing her entire life! It seemed inevitable though that the obsession with perfect lines, technique and taking her clothes off would eventually land her into a pit of feather & glitter – the world of Burlesque!
After beginning her burlesque journey in Melbourne, for the past few years Juniper has been living and working in the UK as a dance yoga & pilates instructor, performing regularly with a circus/burlesque troupe and award-winning commercial street dance crew. Juniper was also the creative director of Bristol’s CAME TO SLAY, a Beyonce inspired, burlesque event.
With her mad dance skills, and supportive, knowledgeable teaching style, Juniper’s students can expect to challenge themselves, get flexy, fit, and most of all – have fun!
Whisky Falls
Classes Taught: Strut & Tease, Dance..but Make it FASHION, Cabaret Jazz, and Slow & Sultry
Like a good malt, Whisky will warm the cockles of your heart with her unique blend of fire and finesse. Her blend of dance techniques, dramatics and styling will keep audiences' palates wanting more than just on wee dram.
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After training in dance from the tender age of three, Scottish born Whisky found her way to
London, England to study Dance and Musical Theatre at one of the UK's leading performing arts institutes. After working with various dance companies, Whisky found herself drawn into the ever curious and evolving world of cabaret.
Whisky is also a professional dance teacher; After teaching at Bird College (UK) for 7 years, Whisky has developed signature teaching methods that she has transferred into burlesque, and mentors fellow performers via workshops, classes and one-to-one online.
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Bella de Jac
Classes Taught: Silk Fan Veils, Beginner Burlesque
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Glamour queen, party girl and powerhouse of the Australian Burlesque Industry Bella de Jac brings a formidable weight of experience to the stage.
With a ridiculous number of titles, awards, and headlining tours under her belt, she maintains a careful balance of utter debauchery with serious hard work.
Bella is Miss Burlesque Australia 2015, and a strong advocate for body-positive, sex- positive, feminist performance art. She has sung, danced and acted her way across Australian and international stages from Melbourne to New York, London and beyond.
Taking out both #31 and #50 in the 2016 & 2017 21st Century Burlesque Top 50, headliner of countless tours, co-director of BEAST and Bitch Stole My Act, and winner of a slew of awards including the most recent, The Australian Burlesque Lifetime Achievement Award, Bella has been a key figure within the Australian Burlesque Industry for over a decade.
Described as both an exquisite creature and a powerful and captivating performer, Bella's penchant for pushing acceptable social boundaries is cleverly disguised by the grace and glamour of her shows.
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Evana De Lune
Classes Taught: Fetish, Iso-Lation, Stretch & Strengthening
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Self proclaimed Lizard Queen Evana De Lune is a former classically trained dancer. Her fetishes for the finer things in life thrusted her towards the rhinestoned art of burlesque. Evana has over 20 years dance experience and is trained in jazz, tap, ballet, contemporary and commercial dance styles.
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Domino De Jour
Classes Taught:
Rock, Sweat & Rears, Pop Punk Party Time & Butt Stuff
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Destroying hearts and stages since 2014 Domino de Jour is a fearless tease, highly skilled at making you want more than what’s good for your health. Holding the titles of Miss Burlesque Melbourne 2016 and Miss Burlesque Australia- Showgirl of the year 2016. Domino has seduced glittering grand stages, dimly lit back alley bars and everything in between that Australia has to offer. Domino has been described as seductive yet terrifying with acts that are glamorous, feminine, powerful.
Specialising in getting you down and dirty and unlocking your inner self loving sex kitten. Equally apt in glamorous classic to unbridled neo she believes that getting naked on stage is the best way to ‘damn the man’ and love yourself sick
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What her students say “ Domino is a fierce, no-shit- taking, powerhouse of a woman who puts a real life hourglass to shame with her hip to waist ratio. An unapologetically bold performer and ferociously supportive of her students. She’s the Barbie doll you wished your Barbie doll could be"
Ruby Slippers
Classes Taught: COMING SOON!
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A high-femme kaleidoscopic cyclone of extroversion and light perversion, Ruby Slippers lives by the motto that you’re either Dorothy, or you’re the twister. Gracing burlesque and drag stages alike and leaving a trail of glitter in her wake, she’s earned a reputation as one of the best dressed (and undressed) kids in town. In 2017 she toured the country as a national headliner for the Australian Burlesque Festival, and in 2017 and 2018 was honoured by her peers, winning the title of “Most Innovative” at the The Busties, the Australian burlesque industry awards.
When she's not racking up Velocity frequent flyer points and dragging suitcases around the country, Ruby is a sought-after costumier and has worked on pieces for stage productions including Briefs: Close Encounters, Matador and Gender Euphoria, as well as stunning soloist costumes for some of Australia's favourite burlesque and cabaret artists.
She's campy yet vampy, a clown-in-a-gown, burlesque supervillain and drag disruptor. She's shared a stage with Amanda Lepore, Brooke Candy and Boy George, eaten a kebab in a G string in front of a cheering audience of thousands at Adelaide Fringe, and taught drag makeup to eleven year-olds.