Exploring Masculinity
With Jett Adore
Saturday, September 14, 2019 4.00 - 6 pm $39
Location: 440 Lafayette, 4th Floor, Studio 4D. Greenwich Village, NYC.
This workshop welcomes gentleman performers and potentially aspiring performers, as well as ladies and all genders who wish to explore masculine shades in their performance and/or process. How can a burlesque performer work to create a truly male counterpart to this historically feminine art form? How can we balance playfulness, elaborate theatricality, comedy, drama, and/or clever inventiveness, while invoking legitimate masculine sex appeal?
The most captivativating ladies of Burlesque history have defined their own ideas of feminine identity, and Jett will propose ways to find inspiration from them and workshop how to translate that inspiration to exploit, exaggerate, challenge, and reimagine masculinity and seductive manpower. You will be guided through exercises to stimulate interpretations of masculinity from stereotypes to the extraordinary, thereby empowering the vitally important process of twisting male gender roles in ways you never imagined. Please bring notetaking materials and a childlike sense of play.
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Bring a pen and notebook. Food is not permitted in the class.
About Your Instructor:
Jett Adore is “the LaBron James of Burlesque” and “the sexiest, biggest, most talented star on
the male burlesque circuit.” (Playgirl Magazine). "Jett's artistic, playful, sexy, scandalous, and
sophisticated performances are male striptease at it's finest." Known for his epicly theatrical
performances, he has headlined in some of the largest Burlesque shows and festivals around
the globe. He was named the world’s “Most Innovative” performer by the Las Vegas Burlesque
Hall of Fame. He is the starring male performer in Dita Von Teese’s many world tours. He
created, directs, co-produces and stars in his male-burlesque show “Diamond Studs”. He is one
of the Stage Door Johnnies, the world-renowned male burlesque trio, who have starred in their
own many long-running shows in Chicago, debuted in NYC with Liza Minnelli and Alan
Cumming, toured worldwide, and were awarded “World’s Best Burlesque Group 2011”
(Burlesque Hall of Fame), “Artists of the Year” (The Burlesque Innovation Guild), and World’s
“Top 10” Performers (21st Century Burlesque). In addition to Jett’s burlesque performance, with
degrees in acting and musical theatre, Jett has been a professional actor in theatre, film, and
television for over 20 years. From a base of the extensive “Stanislovski technique” of acting, Jett
has discovered ways to break down the “Science of Stage Presence”, to define it and uncover
its elusive secrets, and has created his own methods and exercises by which to fully exude it,
specifically within the theatre of burlesque.
PAST CLASSES
What is the X-Factor that makes a performer breathtakingly compelling? What is stage presence and how do you achieve it? How can you embody an energy that fills the stage and how do you create acts with epic impact? As a group and individually, Jett will guide you through improvisational workshop techniques to inspire creating, rehearsing, and performing, and drawing out the superstar within you, all from an actor's perspective.
Unlock the tools to combat self-consciousness and stage fright and learn about Jett’s concepts of "Active Intention" and his “Five S’s of Burlesque”, vital components of achieving the full potential of your own star quality. Please wear comfortable clothes, and bring note-taking materials and plenty of childlike playfulness.
