We are honored to present
International Burlesque Star and Instructor
GIGI HOLLIDAY!
Burlesque Improv and Choreography
Weekly drop-in classes
Monday nights
For questions regarding Monday classes email Gigi Holliday.
Real Burlesque Classes In Person in New York City!
Class size is strictly limited.
Prepayment to register required, so please sign up with the Paypal button below the class description. Paypal doesn't send confirmation emails of payment. The instructor will send confirmations at their earliest convenience. If Paypal doesn't work for you, please email GiGi to make other arrangements. Please make sure you note the date, time, and location of the class.
Get Moving with Gigi in 2025!
$23+ per class or save with a multi-class package
Gigi will teach you basic burlesque moves and get you into showgirl form in this introductory class! Designed for all levels, it's the perfect way to begin your journey into this sexy and playful performing art.
Dress for movement and comfort.
Select your desired class dates in the dropdown menus below:
Monday nights
Location: Playwrights Horizons
440 Lafayette St in Manhattan, 4th Floor, studio 4G
Playwrights Studios (must buzz in, buzzer says "Playwrights An...")
Check out special guest instructor classes during June!
Details on this page.
Select your desired dates in the dropdown menus below:
JUNE 7-8 pm Instructors:
Gigi Holliday 6/2, 6/16, 6/30
Guest Instructors! Miss AuroraBoobrealis (6/9) & Queerly Femmetastic (6/23)
Read lower on this page for descriptions of their classes on those dates.
About Gigi Holliday
Recently transplanted to NYC!
GiGi Holliday built her awesome skills as Washington D.C.’s resurgence of glitz, glamour, and allure. Armed with eyelashes and an arsenal of glitter she has enticed audiences with her clever blend of sass and wit. When she is not melting her milk chocolate beauty all over the audience she uses her business attitude along with hard work she is the Entertainment Director, premier host and dancer for the La Boum Series, owner and Creative Director of Studio Holliday & Gi² Productions and Co-Founder and Co-Producer of the InDCent Arts Festival (Formerly known as Capital City Burlesque and Vaudeville Festival).“D.C. Legitimate Love Child” enjoys the spotlight heating her up and showing you some “Chocolate City Tittie."
June 23 Guest Instructor: Queerly Femmetastic
Bio:
Brooklyn bred bombshell Queerly Femmetastic is a nerdy connoisseur of Blackness. Her pronouns are she, her, and ma’am. Queerly is inspired by Black shake-dancers, strippers, and hoochie-coochie girls across generations. She is an internationally renowned ecdysiast, who's known for snatching souls and taking crowns. Currently, your Grand Master Funk 2024 of the What the Funk Festival, named one of the 2024 Top 50 Most Influential Burlesque Performers in the world, and the 2025 Silver Tusk Awards Entertainer of the Year! Queerly loves the smell of books, practicing sneaky splits, and the feeling of your money on her skin.
Class Info:
Siren's Gaze: What if you had the pull of a siren? Lean into the power of combining tantalizing eye contact and sensual movement. This course is designed to share accessible movement pathways, with a focus on safe gaze practices that can be incorporated into performances. Modifications will be provided for those with mobility limitations. *This workshop is not beginner friendly*. Anyone taking this workshop should have at least 6 months of movement training under their belts (pole, burlesque, heel choreo, vogue, etc.). Heels optional, kneepads and a shirt that covers your shoulders recommended.
June 9 Guest Instructor: Miss AuroraBoobRealis
Bio:
Miss AuroraBoobRealis lights up the night stage with her unique mixture of raw and earthy, wild and fearless burlesque! She is a performing artist creating in the intersections of burlesque, dance, theater and poetry. 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, Brown Girls Burlesque. She is also the Executive Director of BurlyCon - an international burlesque education convention in Seattle, WA.
As a burlesque instructor she has taught foundation courses as well as stand alone classes. Her most successful single class Bump It, Grind It, Bend It, Bring It: Musicality and Stage Presence received rave reviews from participants at BurlyCon as well as in Austin, Portland, Richmond, D.C. and NYC. She brings her wealth of experience and skills she’s honed as a teaching artist of twenty-seven years and group fitness instructor for more than a decade to the table as a burlesque educator. Aurora’s classes are super fun, accessible for all bodies and abilities and grounded in an understanding that she isn’t trying to teach people to dance like her, instead she is helping to expand their movement vocabulary so they can be more fully themselves.
The calendar below is in the process of being updated.
If the calendar varies from the webpage listing, go by the webpage first.
