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The Moisture Festival
Sat, Apr. 2nd, 2011 08:46 amFor eight years, the Moisture Festival has been a Seattle event, an annual month of burlesque, comedy, and variety acts across town (this year, it's something like 52 shows in a month). (Why is it called the Moisture Festival? Well, given Seattle weather this time of year, it's easy to extrapolate. On the other hand, given the content, one might take away other . . . suggestions from the name.) They bring in acts from all over the country, and the line-up is never the same, night to night. I've heard about it quite a bit, and became really intrigued after I saw the documentary A Wink and A Smile a couple of years ago at the Seattle International Film Festival, about the burgeoning burlesque movement in Seattle. At that point, I thought that when the opportunity presented itself, I'd try to catch one of the shows.
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varina8 put together a small group (she, myself, markbourne and e_bourne) to go; last night was the night.
We saw the 10:30 PM show at ACT, the Libertease Burlesqure, and it was just grand. The line-up couldn't be beat: strippers, aerialists, clowns, and novelty acts that had us laughing and captivated. My favorite act, bar none, was Waxie Moon, a gender-bending stripper who does sexual ambiguity better than almost anyone I've ever seen and who just rocked the house with his "Dude Looks Like a Lady" routine. His strut, sass, and black feathered g-string left me laughing and panting all at once. Another favorite of the night was Aviatrix, a group of four women who worked a triple trapeze with awesome skill and grace, and sets of six-pack abs to die for. Lady Rizo was a comedic songstress who turned "I Will Follow Him" into the ultimate stalker's anthem and sung the hell out of "Non, je ne regrette rien." Among the lady strippers, the standouts were Miss Indigo Blue, the doyenne of the Seattle burlesque movement, and rightly so, and The Shanghai Pearl. Perhaps the weirdest act of the night was Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey, a kinky duo-strip team. They certainly did their . . . thing well; I'm still not sure what their . . . thing was altogether.
Anyway, we all had a blast and I couldn't be happier that I went. The Moisture Festival continues until April 10. If you can catch one of the shows (and family-oriented shows are part of the mix if you're not interested in burlesque), I highly recommend it.
This past week,
varina8 put together a small group (she, myself, markbourne and e_bourne) to go; last night was the night.We saw the 10:30 PM show at ACT, the Libertease Burlesqure, and it was just grand. The line-up couldn't be beat: strippers, aerialists, clowns, and novelty acts that had us laughing and captivated. My favorite act, bar none, was Waxie Moon, a gender-bending stripper who does sexual ambiguity better than almost anyone I've ever seen and who just rocked the house with his "Dude Looks Like a Lady" routine. His strut, sass, and black feathered g-string left me laughing and panting all at once. Another favorite of the night was Aviatrix, a group of four women who worked a triple trapeze with awesome skill and grace, and sets of six-pack abs to die for. Lady Rizo was a comedic songstress who turned "I Will Follow Him" into the ultimate stalker's anthem and sung the hell out of "Non, je ne regrette rien." Among the lady strippers, the standouts were Miss Indigo Blue, the doyenne of the Seattle burlesque movement, and rightly so, and The Shanghai Pearl. Perhaps the weirdest act of the night was Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey, a kinky duo-strip team. They certainly did their . . . thing well; I'm still not sure what their . . . thing was altogether.
Anyway, we all had a blast and I couldn't be happier that I went. The Moisture Festival continues until April 10. If you can catch one of the shows (and family-oriented shows are part of the mix if you're not interested in burlesque), I highly recommend it.