Active Stillness

There is so much beauty and strength in posing on stage or in photos.  To really make an impact with a pose, it must be active.  It is a very simple movement to lift up one arm, but if you do so with purpose, it becomes powerful.  The next time you pose, think about all those little muscles that are making that action happen.  Feel your cells tingling and your body lengthning.  Take up all your space.  Think about when you wake up in the morning and you take your first big stretch.  You can feel everything!  Capture that feeling in your performances and your photos and you will make a big difference with small movement.

Who Sings this Song?

Well, them let them sing it!  If you are a performer using a track with vocals, please resist the urge to sing along with the track.  It is very rare that lip syncing works.  If you are a drag queen, perfect.  You got it.  I have to say, that when RuPaul’s Drag Race was on Logo and the queens had to ‘lip sync for their life’, I loved it!  I do not have a problem with it in general, as long as it’s done well!  And there’s the qualifier kids.  If you are half-way batting at the lyrics, then just tape your mouth shut so it stops happening.  I think this pseudo lip syncing looks amateur.  People didn’t come to see you kinda mouth the lyrics to a song.  They came to see you tease!  We all have funny little habits when it comes to performing, but lets try to knock this one out and leave it to the pros.  On that note, can the Drag Race please come back for another season?  So good!

Dancing Beyond the Pasty

Oh dear, it’s been a while hasn’t it?  I really think that I need someone to follow me around and listen to tease tips that I talk about everyday, but never get a chance to sit down and write.  I guess that’s what twitter is for.  Not too sure how I feel about that though.  We’ll see.  Now, on to this year’s tease tip…

Your pasties and your g-string are not your sheilds for innocence.  You must dance beyond those flimsy items of clothing as if you were presenting the entire package.  Don’t cling to them as justification as to how you are not a stripper, but embrace them and make them a part of you and the act.  If one pasty happens to fall off during an act, recognize it and then rip off the other one.  No need to embarrassingly cover that one nipple.  Vice laws be damned!  That’s punk rock people!

There was a time when I was doing a duet with another girl and I lost my pasties.  Well, I couldn’t have us go unmatched, so I turned to her and ripped hers off.  She wasn’t happy.  It hurt.  Oh well, the show must go on.  The fabulous thing about this story is that there was a certain politician in the audience that had vowed to never again be around this type of entertainment.  Juicy, isn’t it?

I hope to be back soon with another tease tip.  In the meantime, I’m accepting applications for a story catcher.  You must be able to write and walk at the same time.  You will be tested.

Take Five 4-5-08

There’s nothing like having a great performance. You’re charged, the audience is charged and everything is right in the world. I really can’t think of anything I would like better after a performance than a ‘Naked High Five’. The naked high five has been infiltrating my shows, and I’m sure other shows as well. I find this display completely hilarious. I didn’t just score the winning point for the game; I just did a striptease for you. I understand you may want to show your appreciation and you may want to touch me and you figure the high five is the way to go. May I just suggest maybe a gentleman -like kiss on my hand, or perhaps you could give me a nice hug. Or, hand me a drink. I like bourbon, the good stuff. I just can’t wait until someone does the knuckle punch or wants to ‘pound it out’ after a show. I may just lose my sexy, sexy mind.

Up high!