Allix Mortis On Earth

The misadventures and musings of Allix Mortis
Photo by Provocatique My favorite part of this act is the stealing and chugging of the beer. This routine is so much fun.

Photo by Provocatique

My favorite part of this act is the stealing and chugging of the beer.

This routine is so much fun.

rogueburlesque: Barbie (Lilly) Bordeaux was not so into cleaning GI Jane (Brandywine)’s boots. Photo captured by Rich Jarvis photography of Mystic River Studios Can we just talk about Lilly’s wig? Or MEGAWig? She kindly indulged my favorite past time - building giant wigs out of other wigs and hairpieces. Barbie!

rogueburlesque:

Barbie (Lilly) Bordeaux was not so into cleaning GI Jane (Brandywine)’s boots. Photo captured by Rich Jarvis photography of Mystic River Studios

Can we just talk about Lilly’s wig? Or MEGAWig? She kindly indulged my favorite past time - building giant wigs out of other wigs and hairpieces. Barbie!

On the second night of the Hot & Heavy Cabaret, I debuted a new routine. Done to “Chase the Devil” by the Eagles of Death Metal, this number is not like anything else in my repertoire - and yet, it feels so very very me.


The video above is from the last night of the show. Full disclosure, this was not my best performance in terms of technique and choreography - I find myself nit-picking every time I know I’m off beat or missing a cue. HOWEVER, the reason I missed these minor beats? Because the audience and I were having so much DAMN FUN! The response each time I did this number reaffirmed every reason about why it is that I love being on stage.

Now I’m an entertainer first and a dancer second - and at the end of the day I’d rather have a crowd laughing, cheering, clapping (and in some cases, up out of their seats dancing) along with me than nail every single cue. And besides - 99% of the time, the audience has NO idea.

Watching this, I’m reminded of the brilliant advice the Rogue directors, Dixie, Ms. Sassypants, and Busty Keaton, gave me during my first workshop with them (long before I ever joined the troupe): “Have fun. If you’re having fun, the audience will have fun.”

I’ll take some time to write a longer reflection about this particular piece later - the process of creating it - and the costuming was very unusual.


For now, enjoy the twirling, clapping, spectacle of it all.

Yours,

Allix - the bouncingest booty in the bean (Boston, MA)

I can be a LADY LADY. Photo by Rich Jarvis Photography. Taken at our “Shake Your Moneymaker” show. While this may look like a classic fan dance - the class dissipated about a minute into the routine and went full on comedy / clowning. That’s just how I roll.

I can be a LADY LADY. Photo by Rich Jarvis Photography. Taken at our “Shake Your Moneymaker” show. While this may look like a classic fan dance - the class dissipated about a minute into the routine and went full on comedy / clowning. That’s just how I roll.

rogueburlesque: Mama Dixie is BACK! Dixie made her triumphant return to the stage as the opener for the Hot & Heavy Cabaret. Rich Jarvis of Mystic River Studios captured this FIERCE! moment. Huzzah Mama! It’s a little late for Mother’s Day but here’s a tribute to our “momma” Douya - Creative Director of Rogue Burlesque. Dixie’s never really taken a maternity leave as she’s been behind the scenes, producing, managing, and workshopping with us - but she made her official return to the stage at our Hot & Heavy Cabaret. This act is an old standby of hers - updated with some new costuming, and with live singing by Lilly Bordeaux on three of the four show nights. Later in the show she debuted a brand new act, unlike anything I’ve seen on a burlesque stage before, called “Mamma’s Blues.” The “Blues” are the opposite of the put together, fierce, classic act seen here - they represent a comedic look into the harried nature of new motherhood. I can’t wait for Dixie to perform it again.After seeing it my partner looked at me and said: “Is life with a baby really like that?” To which we responded: “That’s a good day.”

rogueburlesque:

Mama Dixie is BACK! Dixie made her triumphant return to the stage as the opener for the Hot & Heavy Cabaret. Rich Jarvis of Mystic River Studios captured this FIERCE! moment. Huzzah Mama!

It’s a little late for Mother’s Day but here’s a tribute to our “momma” Douya - Creative Director of Rogue Burlesque. Dixie’s never really taken a maternity leave as she’s been behind the scenes, producing, managing, and workshopping with us - but she made her official return to the stage at our Hot & Heavy Cabaret.

This act is an old standby of hers - updated with some new costuming, and with live singing by Lilly Bordeaux on three of the four show nights. Later in the show she debuted a brand new act, unlike anything I’ve seen on a burlesque stage before, called “Mamma’s Blues.” The “Blues” are the opposite of the put together, fierce, classic act seen here - they represent a comedic look into the harried nature of new motherhood. I can’t wait for Dixie to perform it again.

After seeing it my partner looked at me and said: “Is life with a baby really like that?” To which we responded: “That’s a good day.”

Hey Brosef - totally appropriate interview questions. Nailed it.

Also, Matt Lauer - I hereby award you the international creepsauce salute. You gross, smug, fucker.

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rookiemag:

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poisonedpinions:

Is there revenge burlesque? Like, sexy fun expressive stripping but with a big FUCK YOU message for just one person?

I’m working on something like that to P!nk’s “Eventually”.

So am I doing something or did I invent something?

There’s a shit load of it out there - but people call it different things. Look up Honey Pie, from Boston. She’s got an amazing piece she created post-breakup. It involves a hammer…

My entire burlesque career started as a way to get revenge on abusive exes who had said awful things to me about my appearance and my body. Now it’s my reward to myself.

Good luck with your piece.