FABULESQUE BURLESQUE

A fundraising event for A Wink and A Smile

On Tuesday, October 9, Golden Echo Films and The Swedish Housewife will present Fabulesque Burlesque, featuring performances by city’s most titillating talent and artful seduction for every taste. The show begins at 8:00 p.m. at The Heavens, located in Pioneer Square at 172 South Washington Street. Doors open at 7 p.m.

The show promises a naughtylicious night with performances by Pa-Ooh-La The Swedish Housewife, Miss Indigo Blue, Tamara the Trapeze Lady, Ultra, Vienna La Rouge, Lily Verlaine, The Shanghai Pearl, Ultra, Belle Cozette, Ernie Von Schmaltz, Waxie Moon, Kitten La Rue and more. The sassy and lurid Orchestra L’Pow will debut a host of new songs for the film!

Tickets are available in advance through Brown Paper Tickets. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door, and $150 for front-row sofa seating.

Fabulesque Burlesque will help raise funds for the Golden Echo Films production of A Wink and A Smile. The film will “celebrate the glory of the female form and leave toe-tapping audiences begging for more,” teases Deirdre Allen Timmons, filmmaker and founder of Golden Echo Films.

Filming has begun for A Wink and A Smile, a new musical documentary from local filmmaker Deirdre Allen Timmons, exploring Seattle’s glittering and glamorous nouveau burlesque scene.

A Wink and a Smile follows the lives of ten women as they study the art of the striptease. The transformation from curious amateurs to burlesque divas is alternately hilarious and profound, but always intimate, from redefining sexuality to confronting body image. Lectures are illustrated with performances from Seattle’s burlesque community with original music from Orchestra L’Pow and additional music from artists throughout the U.S.

Burlesque is booming, and its resurgence in popular culture has raised a few eyebrows, and not just because of dropping knickers. “No one comes to a burlesque show to see naked women anymore,” performer Miss Indigo Blue told the Seattle Times. “That gets boring, right? The real performance is what we’re saying while we take off our clothes.”

The variety of provocateurs and performances in burlesque is what first attracted Timmons to the project: “As I began to explore Seattle’s scene, I found men and women of all ages and all body types boldly throwing down hilarious and beautiful striptease acts—peeling and revealing their way through stories that made me laugh, cry, and sometimes wonder, ‘How did they do that?’”

An intoxicating mix of private and public, A Wink and A Smile tells the story of students and performers who expose more than their bodies, and put gender, power and identity under the spotlight.

The film is the first feature-length project from Golden Echo Films.

Deirdre Allen Timmons, filmmaker and founder of Golden Echo Films, is available for information and interviews, and can be contacted at deirdre@goldenechofilms.com. Images available upon request.

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Hey everybody!

Welcome to the blog for A Wink and A Smile, the upcoming musical documentary from Golden Echo Films. We’ll be posting production news and juicy tidbits about Wink, as well as some info on upcoming burlq performances by the film’s stars.

Enjoy!