APPROPRIATION
Resplendent in daisy dukes, gingham and wielding a blowtorch, Lydia is the embodiment of White Trash chic! She casually lights up a cigar before stubbing it out on her tongue and lighting her fire-torches. After a spectacular display of body-burning and fire-eating, she lights up her five-point fire hula and spins it expertly around waist, hip, neck and hands, executing stunning tricks that never fail to have the audience cheering! This is a very popular show and and unusual discipline that is rarely seen within the cabaret scene, and I have several different versions available to suit the occasion.
Costume and music: 'Honky-tonk Badonkadonk" by Trace Atkins. Costume: AP gingham bikini, Show duration -4-6 minutes.
This show allows your guests to get up-close and personal, proving that there really is no trickery to Lydia's amazing fire stunts, just good old fashioned skill and pain tolerance! Glamourously dressed in cabaret finest, Lydia descends from the stage with her torches and executes deliciously slow body burns and tantalising flame transfers just inches away from your amazed guests. She then takes to the stage for a fire-breathing finale, blowing a series of impressive fireballs from her mouth . Perfect for supper clubs and dining entertainment!
Music: neo-jazz - 'Disobedience' by Pig. Costume: black AP bodysuit, mini top-hat. Show duration: 4-10 minutes.
A firey, fetishy show that is always popular and is in particularly high demand around Hallowe'en! Looking every bit the voodoo Mistress, Lydia enters a stage set with flaming braziers, holding a firey cane. Lighting her custom-made fire claws, she contorts her body in a writhing invokation of the spirits of the dead!
With a stunning fire-hula finale Lydia reminds us the fires of hell burn bright and HOT!
Music: 'Tombstone Blues' by Johnny Staccato band/ 'Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers. Costume: black and white latex tail coat, latex bodysuit. Show duration: 4.55 minutes
Mrrrow! A tribute to the style and attitude of the Supervixens, this red-hot pussycat is on fire! A delightfully pleasing fire act utilising simple but effective tricks with a minimum of fuss, therefore suitable for smaller venues that can't always house fire acts. No nudity but very saucy indeed! A wink, a smile and few naughty quips give this sexy fire act a comic edge. Also available as a burlesque act - see 'Cat's Meow''.
Music: Red Hot Pussy by Circus Contraption. Costume: Leopardprint coat, Agent Provocateur playsuit, cat ears. Show duration: 3 mins
a satirical take on burlesque for the more literary-minded audience, this is a slyly humorous homage to the Bulgakov novel. Part Dominatrix, part ringmaster, part magician, Lydia casually lights her cigar off a dollar bill as notes rain down around her. A slightly more edgy, modern take on burlesque with a LOT of attitude!
Duration: 5 minutes. Soundtrack: Head like a Hole by Pig (lounge style cover-version). Costume: Top hat, gold and black Vollers corset dress, shoulder cape with money-print lining, custom-made money-print panties, bra and waspie. Stockings and gold-diamante-edged shoes. Riding crop.
A beautifully elegant, 1920's-styled, tango-inspired fan dance with spectacular 5ft white feather fans - tension builds as Lydia executes dramatic sweeps and kicks whilst shedding layer after layer of glittering ivory fringing - the music explodes into a crescendo of passion, spins and diamonds!
Soundtrack: Assassin's Tango by John Powell. Costume: Ostrich feather head-dress, custom-made ivory art-deco dress, white stockings and panties, agent provocateur pasties. Duration: 4 minutes.
A classic teasing fandance striptease with a twist...Lydia elegantly shrugs out of her bustle and corset, coyly wriggling out of bra and stockings behind black ostich feather fans, which are then plucked away at one by one until one last trembling feather remains! This is Lydia at her sultry best; a smirk, a wink and a raised eyebrow as she expertly raises temperaures to boiling point.
Soundtrack: Eartha Kitt - My Discarded Men Costume: White silk kimono, Kiss Me Deadly lingerie, Agent Provocateur nipple pasties Props: custome made fans with detachable feathers. Duration: 3.43
With her uncanny resemblance to Crybaby-era Traci Lords, and her love for the cult movies of John Waters, it was inevitable that Lydia would eventually get round to this tribute show to Wanda Woodward, baddest of the Crybaby Girls!
Lydia sasses onto stage looking every inch the Drape. But she's not happy with what she hears - her man is being sent down by The Law! It's up to her to persude the judge to change his mind - but how will she go about doing that..?
This cheeky show is great fun with an edge of rock and roll kitsch.
Costume: Wanda Woodward white dress and leather jacket, Kiss me Deadly lingerie, heart-shaped tassles. Show duration 3.55
First performed for hungry True Blood vampire fans at the HBO-sponsored Fangtasia night, this aerial hoop show is dark, sexy and bloody. Lydia writhes within swathes of red organza before drinking blood through a medical drip and dropping into a spectacular aerial sequence. Available with or without blood shower as a finale!
Soundtrack: Methampethamine Blues, Mark Laneghan. Costume: Leather trousers and matching bra top. Duration: 4.30 mins.
Adorned in crystals and swathes of cream silk, Lydia executes an eye-popping Vegas grind striptease before taking to the trapeze showgirl style, Dripping in glamour and glitz, this show goes for full-on spectacle, with striptease, fan-dance, trapeze and a champagne shower finale. Simply stunning! Also available as a shorter, non-striptease version suitable for corporate events.
Duration: 10 minutes/4mins. Soundtrack: The Strip: The Upsetters/The Man with the Golden Arm: Barry Adamson/Diamonds are a girls's Best Friend: Monroe vs Swing Cats. Costume: White silk gown, Kiss Me Deadly white diamante bodysuit, silver pasties
A host of butterflies flutter around the Gaijin Geisha's head, as she slowly sheds robes, parasol and fan to charming Japanese music. Slipping from her swing into a gracefully executed routine, your jaw will drop as the Blonde Geisha drops and spins through a storm of butterflies, snow or cherry blossoms.
Duration: 4 minutes. Soundtrack: Memoirs of a Geisha, John Williams. Costume: Black mini-kimono with teal obi, fan and parasol. Kiss-me-deadly lingerie with diamante butterfly pasties.
A delightfully mischievous sprite dances en pointe through the crowd distributing wild flowers to the spellbound audience. Hopping up onto the aerial hoop, she spins and drops joyfully in a hail of glittery fairy dust! Can also be adapted as a Christmas show.
Soundtrack: Oompa Radar, Goldfrappe. Costume: White AP corset, White regency wig, crystal encrusted mask, white silk bustle. Duration: 4.30 mins.
A new performance piece for 2011, Lydia embraces her sideshow roots and brings some oldschool freakshow action to the stage! This uncomfortable-to-watch show definitely pushes physical endurance to the limits...watch in horror as a beaming Ms Darling hammers a genuine 5 inch nail into her nose, stubs out a cigar on her tongue, jumps on broken glass and performs the infamous 'mental floss' trick for your amusement and entertainment...only the strongest of constitutions will be able to endure this act!
Costume: Vintage cocktail gown . Soundtrack: Richard Cheese - Down with the Sickness/Insane in the Brain. Duration: 4.24 mins.
THIS PIECE IS BEING REDEVELOPED AND WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO BOOK UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.
Beautiful fetishistic body-art show performed with artist Obadiah Arkham. These performances are fairly intense and visceral, and not recommended for burlesque clubs. Inspired by a passage on the cannibalistic nature of love from Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Appropriation explores the dialectic of love as an attempt to control one's partner and force them to see you as an idealised version of yourself. Utilises flesh-hooks, maskwork, mouth-sewing and needles - bloody, compelling, and strangely touching.
Duration - betwen 15 mins and 1 hour
Soundtrack: ritual music from Coil and others
Beautiful all-female performance group founded by Sally Kamelyn, Skinphony have performed worldwide creating haunting and ethereal music with their human orchestra of huge metal instruments attached to their human components with flesh hooks and needles. This sublime experience is enhanced by amazing costumery and beautiful ambient sound amplified and projected from the very instruments themselves. Can also be offered as a non-piercing performance with ribbons instead of piercings.
Duration: 5 mins- 1 hour.. Costume: Victorian style corsetery, bustle skirt
