Juliette Dragon
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www.collectifsurpriseparty.com
Juliette Dragon multidisciplinary artist, started out in 1993 in south of France with a tekno cabaret company. There , she is trained in the traditionnal cabaret techniques ( set design, transformism) and produces herself in the most keen electro festivals. In 1996 , she settles in Paris where she organizes events and performs in most of the parisian stages.
She poses as a manequin for Martin Margiela and Jean-Paul Gaultier and danses for music bands all over Europe.
Starting to learn Circus arts and open-air theatre, she specializes herself with fire and obtains her K4 professional diploma (special effects and pyrotechnics) Trained by Cassavetes's assistant, Kim Massee as an actor’s director. She won the french Viet Vo Dao championship (golden fighting medal in 2002)
In 2003, she creates the Collectif Surprise Party , a new burlesque cabaret company, regrouping exclusively female artists : dancers ,acrobats ,singers , comedians , pin-up and other performers that she directs in shows she produces.
In 2008 , she creates l’"Ecole des Filles de Joie", which is the first New Burlesque Cabaret School in France. Whatever their age or body , Burlesque Cabaret artists use every tricks in the book to seduce their audience. The goal of this school is to share pro tips with the students to help them to get rid of their complexes and boost their self-confidence by accepting their own bodies. Good times with the girls ,to share , laugh , taming your feminity and develope your assurance : a unique experience where you’ll meet yourself and your body , learn to love it and reveal its seductive powers. Fun and original art-therapy for all, even the shyest. Courses by the year, each week in different locations in Paris.
In 2009 , she co-produce , the first Paris Burlesque Festival thus federating all the international scene for the parisian audience’s pleasure.
Burlesque Strip
Class of regular Burlesque Cabaret with stripping technics, the MEOOOOOW WORKSHOP : witch kind of feline are you ? Little Kitten or fatal panther.
How to walk seductively on high heels. Different polarities of seduction, active as a predator or submissive as a tiny Kitten. Very funny!
Students can bring any funny clothing accessories like kinky cat costumes.
Please come in High Heels!
Photo: © Stephane Nigentz
Exotic Dance
Class of EXOTIC DANCES traditional movements of 50's burlesque dancers : isolations, hip ondulations, shimmies, bump&grind.
Very sexy dance without strip from a time when stripping was forbidden in USA and strippers had to create a new way of sexy Shows.
Some girls used to be under arrested because their dances used to be so suggestive that guys had to suffer from heart injury because of to much emotion ...
Beware of thigh muscle soreness !
Students can bring oriental fringed bra or belt.
Photo: © Gilles Rammant