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Burlesque Poetics June 15 | 3-4:30 PM Bringing together the artforms of burlesque and poetry, this class is designed to engage your intellect, body and poetic soul. In this 90 minute class Miss Aurora will guide you through impassioned discussions about your personal connections to both artforms and share her insights on how poetic devices can be conceptually applied to burlesque. Then it’s time to get everyone moving with a physical warm up, followed by some theater games/exercises that delve into the how of translating words into movement. In the last section of class, participants will have a small window of time to choreograph a short phrase of movement to an excerpt of a poem and then share with the class. For Burlesquers who want to include poetry in their performance, poets who want to burlesque, and everyone in between. Bring comfortable clothing you can move in and a poem you would like to set movement to. About Miss AuroraBoobRealis Miss AuroraBoobRealis is an award winning interdisciplinary performing artist creating in the intersections of burlesque, dance, theater, poetry and drag. In 2024, she received a Sassy Lassy from the Burlesque Hall of Fame - “for significant impact in the promotion and perpetuation of burlesque.” She lights up the night stage with her unique mixture of raw and earthy, wild and fearless burlesque! Central to her existence is the fact that Aurora cannot and will not separate herself from her art, race, or political beliefs. She has a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College with a focus on 20th Century Black Radical Artists and the intersections of dance, poetry, and theater. She is a co-founder/co-producer of Boombox Burlesque: A Hip Hop Burlesque Festival; the co-founder of brASS: Brown RadicalAss Burlesque, and back in 2007, she co-founded Brown Girls Burlesque. Aurora has graced burlesque stages across the country from NYC to Seattle, Portland, Austin, Boston, Minneapolis, Philly, D.C. and more! Aurora first stepped on stage when she was five and never looked back. She created her first solo theater show at 18, the same year she started striping in clubs. She has spent more than half of her life as a professional performer, wowing and inspiring audiences sometimes clothed, sometimes not.