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Our Cardiff Cabaret Club has become obsessed with James Bond of late, and here in the advanced group routine (I got ambitious this term, though how wisely I am uncertain …) is my tiny contribution to said obsession:

I do have another solo planned, with a science fiction theme, but it is currently on pending for a date, as although my teacher (the inimitable Foo...
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Cardiff-based musicians Jason "Flapsandwich" Philips and Sandor "Cosmo" Dus, having made an anti-Brexit protest song, asked if I would like to contribute some burlesque dancing to the music video. Always being up for some insanity to liven up the day, not to mention being ever-more wistful for the days when my EU citizenship seemed like something I could always count on, I jumped at the...
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The videos of our last burlesque performance (22/12/18, Cardiff Cabaret Club at the Neon, Newport) are now up on Youtube, letting me finally relive the time I dressed up as a giant golden moth and twirled around to Swedish techno. Totally worth skiving off work for the evening ...

Ah 2018, I shalt fondly remember thee as the year I became fully myself both physically and by finally filling the burlesque-shaped hole in my life thanks to Cardiff Cabaret Club. This photo is from our final event of the year - "Stocking Filler," 22nd of December - in the Neon club, Newport. I didn't do a solo on this occasion, but I did take
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An unused preview shot from my just-now-accepted second set "Wasteland Warrior", due for member review in the standard (if excruciating) wait time of four months. Although I have a debut set due up before that, this is the one I am excited about ... Shot in the gloriously dilapidated ruins of a defunct Welsh holiday camp, we went for a post-apocalyptic theme with a dash
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A backstage shot from Cardiff Cabaret Club's Halloween show at Heath Hospital Social Club (AKA "Zombie A&E" show). Me at far left, in my lovely latex scars, standing next to the gorgeous Wiskey Rae, with the amazing Hadria Hellbound reclining seductively up front (I owe this lady a lot for encouraging and empowering me to fly as a solo burlesquer), and the devilishly handsome Schnitzel
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This year has been a highlight of my life in many ways: completing the transition I began three years ago, being able to do nude shoots for the first time in my life without feeling horribly self-conscious, and taking up burlesque dancing. The latter has been more transformative than I ever imagined when I first signed up for classes in January, and has massively improved...
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