2021 Show Videos
Rent or purchase the 2021 DisabiliTease Festival shows
Friday night’s show is hosted by Rebecca Mmm Davis. The cast includes headliner Jacqueline Boxx, feature Chaos X. Machina and performers Booty and the Beast, Caramel Knowledge, Ember Raven, Katori Knight, Little Lioness, Minda Mae, Oliver Yew, Ramona Rhapsody, Thottie Biscotti, and Top Quark.
Saturday night’s show is hosted by Eun Bee Yes. The cast includes headliner Jacqueline Boxx, feature Tre’ Da Marc and performers Boysinberry Cupcake, Eileen Wright, Fire Hazzzard, Frankie Fingerling, Magenta DeMure, Melody Vine, Noéline la Bouche, Peter Panic, Sian Brigid and VaVa Vashti.
Sunday’s brunch show is hosted by Betsy Bottom Dollar. The cast includes feature Azzure Service and performers Blu Dream, Devilon Top, Eros Sea, Foxie la Fleur, Lakota Shekhar, Lisse Phoenix, Hedy West, MissShapen, Mother Girth, Rosie Roulette, and Taryn Luce.
Each show will be available to rent for 24 hours for $10 or purchase for $20. Tipping information for each performer will be shown before and after each act. Be sure to send them some love!
While viewing the videos, you can click the CC button for closed captioning.
We teamed up with the DisabiliTease Academy, which launched during the DisabiliTease Festival weekend, to bring accessible classes to performers and producers in the burlesque, drag, cirque and performing arts communities.
The DisabiliTease Academy is an online dance, burlesque, aerial, and movement arts school focused on performers and producers with disabilities and their allies. As the only school of its kind, our mission is to provide an accessible experience for both instructors and students who may otherwise encounter barriers in traditional schools.
DTA offers a range of class topics and offer multiple learning opportunities to meet your needs, such as live Zoom sessions, pre-recorded classes and downloadable resource guides.
The 2021 classes are available to rent for $15 or purchase for $20 USD.
Energy Flow: Safe/Centered Stage Presence with Jacqueline Boxx
Faces and Hands for Stage with Skirt Vonnegut
Glitter Activism: Using Burlesque to Create Social Change with Eun Bee Yes
The Mind: Dance for Mobility Restrictions with Jacqueline Boxx
The Movement: Floor/Chair for Mobility Restrictions with Jacqueline Boxx
All classes have live captioning available. If there are other accommodations that would make your participation easier, please reach out to us at info@disabiliteasefestival.com.
Special Thanks To Our 2021 Sponsors and Volunteers
Melinda Weir Design and Photography is dedicated to helping you create a cohesive brand across multiple mediums, such as logos and business cards to websites and social media, to reach new clients and achieve your business goals. Melinda’s problem-solving skills and ability to look at things from another angle often result in streamlining or upgrading the method in which things are done.
VIVA BURLESQUE, aims to explore through the lens of erotic dance, art, and politics, the bare-naked truth about Burlesque, our common humanity and our essential sexual nature … in all its exotic diversity. We strive to shine a light on burlesque that challenges stereotypes dictated by society and reveal the empowering, healing and enriching qualities of burlesque. One of our goals is to reach wider audiences with burlesque that exemplifies inclusivity and body positivity, with a particular focus on performers with both visible and invisible disabilities. VIVA BURLESQUE works to present burlesque as a vital performance art, deserving broader respect and recognition in the world of entertainment.
Midnight Room Rentals is an adaptable studio space for rent by the hour in Northeast Minneapolis which is independently owned and operated by DisabiliTease Festival co-producer VaVa Vashti.
Midnight strives to be a multi-use, accessible, and equitable space for folks in (or visiting) the Twin Cities. It is a great place to consider for your next recording, rehearsal (including aerial, pole, and chair), meetings, or photoshoot session.
We are so thankful to Midnight for their sponsorship, which allowed several of our local performers to film their routines – and is hosting our local cast’s watch parties!
Ed Nelson
Elizabeth True
Guard Dominique Trix
Jo Jo Stiletto
Kevvie Wilhelmina
Mia Moore
Oreo Munroe
Sean Berry
Top Quark
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
We’d like to thank 20% Theatre Company for being our 2021 Fiscal Sponsor.
