2022 Show Videos
Rent or purchase the 2022 DisabiliTease Festival shows
Friday night’s show is hosted by Frankie Fingerling. The cast includes headliner Twirlisha Devine, feature Rosie Roulette and performers Candlelora, Diana Divine, D’Monica Leone, Iris Envy, Moe Russell, Mother Girth, Pixie Twixt, Prance Dashing, Sally Stardust, and Veda DeCadenza.
Saturday night’s show is hosted by Thrillda Swinton. The cast includes headliner Twirlisha Devine, feature Sinasaurus Vex and performers Ambrosious Lee, Brigid Sinclair, ChasTitty Barre, Chris Jay, Oddysea Kinara, Lakota Shekhar, Lottie à la West, Maze Cairo, and Vandellous.
Sunday’s brunch show is hosted by Mother Girth. The cast includes featured performers Azzure Service (in memoriam) and Tas Al-Ghul with performers Caffeyne Luv, Harley Synn, Lisse Phoenix, M’Lady Rae, Madam Ofeelya Redd, Noli Kat, Sassy DeVille, and Sassy Wheels & Quirky Kong.
Each show is available to rent for 24 hours for $10 or purchase for $20. You can also rent all three at a discount for $28 or buy them for $58. 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 2021 DisabiliTease Festival weekend, to bring six workshops to our 2022 festival.
As the only school of its kind, the DisabiliTease Academy brings accessible, virtual classes to performers, producers, and their allies in the burlesque, drag, cirque, cabaret, and movement arts communities. Their mission is to provide an accessible experience for both instructors and students who may otherwise encounter barriers in traditional movement and performance arts schools through live Zoom sessions, pre-recorded classes and downloadable resources guides.
The growing list of courses includes topics such as self-care as a performer, costuming, logistics and career management, accessibility, inclusivity, adaptable movement, and more.
Be sure to follow them on Facebook and Instagram to stay up to date on their latest course offerings.
The 2022 classes are available to rent or purchase
Bio Writing Basics with Diana Divine
Character Crash Course with Diana Divine
Don’t Get Cancelled with Tas Al-Ghul
Expanding Movement Vocabulary Using Laban with Vandellous
Figure Out Your Face with Kevlar B Lightning
Shine Bright with M’Lady Rae
Accessibility information: While viewing the videos, you can click the CC button for closed captioning. Please email info@disabiliteaseacademy.com if there are other accommodations that would make your participation easier.
Special Thanks To Our 2022 Sponsors, Donors, and Volunteers
Minda Mae Photo and Design, run by DisabiliTease Festival co-producer Minda Mae, provides photography, graphic and web design services for the burlesque, drag, and performing arts communities.
Minda Mae created and updates this website, and creates many of the graphics used each year.
The Burlesque Hall of Fame (BHoF) is the world’s premier organization dedicated to preserving the living legacy of burlesque as an artform and cultural phenomenon and fostering the continued growth of the artform.
Every year, over 1,000 performers, producers, and burlesque super-fans from all over the world gather in Las Vegas to celebrate the history and ongoing development of the art form during the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender. This event has happened in some form or another since 1957.
Jenna Lory is a Minnesota-born voice over artist who has produced multiple Audiobook Narrations through ACX, provided the voice for a variety of characters in different short films and theater productions, voiced training videos for large companies, and offers affordable voice overs for local groups and artists.
If you’re looking for an extra pop to your marketing campaign, reach out to see if she is the right choice for you!
The Ladies of the Lakes exists as a razzle-dazzle order of 21st century nuns dedicated to serving the community in which they operate and beyond. Its mission is to inspire the world to be washed over in acceptance, service, and self-love.
They champion for those in need and navigate the waters of adversity, vowing to transmute negativity and cultivate joy through public manifestation and active presence in their community.
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 party!
The Imperial Court of Minnesota is a local chapter of an international organization whose focus is to build a better community through volunteer work and community outreach with an emphasis on fundraising.
Tre’ Da Marc (Infringement Productions) Presents: Juneteenth Jubilee: A Black Burlesque Show!
Just like gospel, jazz, and blues, burlesque is BLACK! The Juneteenth Jubilee is an epic love letter to our communities, a celebration of liberation and freedom for black and brown bodies and identities in burlesque. Tre’ da Marc, one of the 2021 DisabiliTease Festival’s Features, Twirlisha Devine, the 2022 Festival Headliner, and some of the industry’s most prolific artists from across the United States will flaunt the facets of Black Performance Art.
A recording of the show will be available soon.
Viva Burlesque is dedicated to supporting the art of Burlesque. Susan Wolf and Machiel Amorison, the filmmakers behind Viva Burlesque and Red Spoke Films, collaborate on creating documentaries. Their first co-production, the award winning film, “Mata Hari The Naked Spy” is now available for streaming.
They are in production on a new film about the transformative experience of burlesque. The film focuses on stories of remarkable burlesque artists and how burlesque helps them create more fulfilling lives.
Lilly O’Ssassin
Mx Bubbles
Oreo Munroe
Pixie Rose Dee
Prance Dashing
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 Life-sized Meme Productions for being our 2022 Fiscal Sponsor.
