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When it comes to cabaret, burlesque or vintage style entertainment, the name Jac Bowie is synonymous.
Jac is internationally renown as the leading agent and producer in this genre, and is the creative director of The Bijou Group, an entertainment and events agency featuring the who’s who of burlesque’s top names and shows.From the first Burlesque Ball in 2006, an influx of media attention and booking enquiries flooded in, and The Jac Bowie Agency was born. In 2010, she joined forces with Cassandra Atkins to create a new business, The Bijou Group which features a roster of over the world’s most elite Burlesque performers including most Miss Exotic World Winners & Runners Up (the Oscars for the Burlesque industry). Talent are placed into events and festivals worldwide, including several lucrative contracts in Europe seeing the artists on 3 month professional theatre placements. Other notable clients include Sony Music, The Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, The Museum of Modern Art New York and Pacha Moscow.

Along with The Burlesque Ball annual tour, The Bijou Group also has a host of regular events throughout Australia including Miss Burlesque International, The Ruby Revue (monthly in Sydney & Melbourne) and Dr Sketchys Sydney (fortnightly in Sydney).

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Imogen Kelly is Australia’s first lady of striptease. This darling of the demimonde, bon vivant and plaything of millionaires is internationally renowned for her gorgeously defiant take on burlesque. She is a showgirl of 20 years experience and has dazzled on every level of showgirl stardom. This includes everything from the Moulin Rouge kick lines, peep shows in Tokyo, Japanese topless weddings, Gypsy circus tours in Europe, Mardi Gras extravaganzas, Edinburgh festival five star show, La Clique veteran and creator of award winning burlesque theatre shows tarnished and The Undressing Room.
With a BFA in Performance (COFA) under her belt and a NIDA degree in directing Imogen embarked on a jetset career as an international show pony. She is also a professional trapeze artist/ aerialist and film maker.
Imogen has toured extensively in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan. She co-founded cult strip club Gurlesque and is a member of Brisbane’s La La Parlour (LLP). Imogen has performed in The Sydney Opera House several times in both the grand operas as well as directing or perforing several shows in The Studio (The Studio launch, Sleepless Beauty, Music for The Eyes, Close you Little Eyes). She has four theatre shows to her name including award winning burlesque circus Tarnished (LLP), La La Loco (LLP) and her one woman tour de force The Undressing Room which will be showing at The Sydney Fringe Festival in Sept 2010)

Australia’s premier showgirl, the darling of burlesque, Tease-o-rama headliner (USA), Penthouse Pet, Tabloid Sensation, Artist’s Muse.

Lola’s list of credits reads like no other. Few performers have garnered such intense media attention and breathless reviews.

Lola features prominently in the two major books on the
current burlesque era, “The Happy Stripper”, and “Burlesque and the New Bump and Grind”

Lola is honoured to be a part of a rich and elaborate history of incredible and brazen performers, and pays tribute in her shows to the dancers who have paved her gilded way. Lola The Vamp – an icon in the making

“Beautiful” Nick Cave

“A highly developed aesthetic and a sly wit…super sexy without ever being tawdry, Lola is in a league of her own” The Age