Floorspace Offers a Workshop in Performance

Professionals, novices, would-be’s and the plain curious, listen up. All—young and old, men and women—are invited to attend a burlesque workshop, during which they will learn how to get, improve it and flaunt it before taking it off.

Professional burlesque artist Talloolah Love and her friends, all from Atlanta, will hold “The Textbook Tease” workshop at later this month. Topics covered include the history of burlesque and the art of making pasties; how to achieve a pin-up look; and burlesque moves.

Christy Fricks of Floorspace said she took a class from Love in Asheville, "and it was so much fun! Everyone likes to dress up, right?"

According to the Floorspace website, Talloolah Love has been all over the country for the past four years, teaching classes. Workshop Participants will make their own pasties under her close supervision. At last, you will learn the secrets of the twirl. (If you don’t know what this is, you can undoubtedly find a demonstration elsewhere.)

In addition to Love, makeup artist Kellyn Wiley will tell you how to present yourself in pin-up style, something that harkens back to Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. Wiley’s grandfather was a pin-up photographer in the 1940s. His vocation led her to study photography, from which she moved on to theatre, then makeup and hair styling. She also belongs to the Minette Magnifique burlesque troupe, which she co-founded.

Teaching the burlesque moves will be Miss Fonda Lingue, The Queen of Boylesque. Lingue is the current reigning Great Southern Exposure King of Burlesque, specializing in the Classic Burlesque Style. She spent 20 years as a professional ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer and her class, “The Art of Getting There,” successfully debuted at The Southern Fried Burlesque Festival to critical acclaim.

The workshop will be held on August 20 at Floorspace, on Tracy Street, from 1 until 6:30 p.m. The cost is $25 for each class or $60 for the entire afternoon if you register by August 6. After that date, the prices bump up to $30 for individual classes and $75 for all three. You can register online.