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Performing with Dusters and Gowns

Costumes can be more than just something you wear in your performance. For the discerning performer, a costume piece can be a valuable prop, used to toy, tease, and lead the audience where they need to go. Burlesque legend Suzzette Monique wants to show you some sass and flair with dusters and gowns.

On March 15th at the Theater Puget Sound, in Studio D, one of burlesque's living legends Suzzette Monique is teaching a workshop to on how you may integrate duster and gowns into your dancing. Learn movements, twirls, and reveals with a duster from the woman who made it her signature mark. Classes are 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm. Ms. Monique will have dusters to loan and dusters you can purchase at the class.

About Suzzette Monique
In 1969 while working as a door girl in at a disco in Vancouver called the Kiki Rouge, Suzzette Monique was asked to attend a go-go audition for the position of a masked "mystery dancer" at Tommy Chong's nightclub, The Shanghai Junk. Even though she was very young, Tommy and his father liked what they saw in her talent. She got the job and started her dance career on July 1st. She then partnered up with tap dance entertainer "Taps" Harris and as they toured, Suzzette picked up skills at clubs along the way and evolved into a respected burlesque dancer and costumer. Known as "The Queen of Theme", Suzzette designed costumes for herself and many of her contemporaries, touring and performing at top clubs all over the USA. Returning to Canada, Suzzette opened her own "School for Exotics", a talent booking agency and then her dream nightclub "Suzy Q's" in Edmonton, AB; the region she now calls home.