Masterclass: Billie Madley
BOOK NOW & FULL COURSE OUTLINE AT:
http://billiemadley.eventb
SATURDAY 10th DECEMBER 2011 OR
SUNDAY 11th DECEMBER 2011
THE BIJOU BURLESQUE SCHOOL SYDNEY
$150 per person
5 Hour Course
Full Details on course contact available from the link above.
Very special event, with one of America’s true pioneers in Neo Burlesque. Many say Billie Madley was the first breathe of Neo Burlesque in New York City.
An absolute icon, and coming to Australia exclusively with The Bijou Group.
*** Billie is also available for private coaching and workshops between 8-18th December in Sydney. Email jac@jacbowie.com for availability.
ABOUT BILLIE MADLEY
Billie Madley is a multidisciplinary artist using popular culture and style as her medium. A mixologist of high- and low-brow performance and style, her work straddles the fashion, art, and theatre worlds.
As a performance artist, she performed all over NYC then The UK and Germany. Her work as a burlesque artist is considered, by many , to have been the first breath of the current burlesque movement (1992)…. A graduate of the
Meisner technique acting (Richard Pinter of Neighborhood Playhouse) went on do theater in NY…, and create and produce projects including “Cinema” and “Girlstown” (off-Broadway) , receiving Critic’s Pick Timeout, Village Voice, Backstage, and The New Yorker 1996, 1999, 2004. She has been the subject of documentaries for HBO. the BBC, and can be seen in Jill Morley”s film “Stripped”..
Using herself as subject, her self styled image has been used in advertising campaigns, books, magazines, and CD covers. Works using Madley as subject have hung in galleries including the Museum of Modern Art MOMA in nyc, also exhibited in the mens toilets in the Bloomingdale’s nyc SOHO location.. Photographed by many notable photographers including Bunny Yeager, Terry Richardson, Ellen von Unwerth. and collaborated for years with Richie Fahey , depicting Characters she created for stage and print, Also cartooned in the New Yorker magazine. And the cover of Timeout London
She has contributed as editor and stylist to numerous fashion magazines, including I-D, The Face, Blitz (UK), Vogue (Australian), Petra and Tempo (Germany), and Interview in London and the U.S… Written for the Village Voice.. Worked trend forecaster and consultant to designers in the fashion world and contributing styles for Sarah Jessica Parker in the “Sex and the City ” films I and 2
BILLIE MADLEY VIDEOS
http://www.youtube.com/wat
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