ENERGY FLOW: SAFE/CENTERED STAGE PRESENCE
with
Jacqueline Boxx
OCT 1 | 6 – 7 PM
Commanding an audience’s attention doesn’t have to mean constantly moving about a stage! Learn the five elements Jacqueline uses to make the absolute most of center stage and practice a brief choreography that introduces adapting these elements to your own performance style.
ARTIST BIOS
Jacqueline Boxx’s mobility aids are as enticing as her activism, and she packs an aesthetic and emotional punch, whether she brings classic tease, nerdlesque, or neo-burlesque to the stage. Her background before disability involved trapeze, hooping, cabaret, musical theater, bellydance, clowning, ballet, and numerous other kinds of performance art, including touring with The Dresden Dolls as part of their Brigade. She debuted as a burlesque performer for the first time in 2006.
As her disability increased, however, many of these performance outlets became inaccessible and she drifted away from the stage… until linking up with Tucson’s Black Cherry Burlesque and participating in their Burlesque for the Soul program in 2014 altered her understanding of what burlesque performance could mean. She brought her mobility aides onstage with her for the first time in January of 2015.
She has since headlined and been featured in burlesque festivals across the world, including Vienna, Adelaide, Montreal, Minneapolis, and New York City, among others. She won burlesque legend Gabriella Maze’s “Personal Pick” award at The Great Burlesque Exposition and 2nd Runner Up at the 2017 Golden Legend Champion Challenge, as well as The “Glitoris” Judge’s Choice award at Alterna-TEASE. She is the 2023 Monarch of Pacific Northwest Burlesque and the 1st Runner up “SupaFly” of the 2023 What the Funk Festival. She competed for “Best Debut” at the 2017 Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender, becoming the first wheelchair-user to ever compete for a title on the biggest stage in burlesque, and was chosen to compete for Miss Exotic World, “Queen of Burlesque,” at that same competition in 2022. 21st Century Burlesque Magazine named her one of the top 50 most influential burlesque performers in the world in 2022.
Jacqueline is a devoted burlesque instructor, show producer, and disability activist, and has taught workshops and lectured on panels about mindful movement and adaptive performance across the world. She is a founder and core instructor at the Baltimore-based burlesque teaching collective Essential Tease which regularly teaches online and in-person classes and produces student showcases.
Jacqueline’s performances change minds and perspectives. Her acts are all related in some way to her experience with chronic pain and limited mobility, and she strives to bring attention through glamour and spectacle to disability.She is:
Miss Disa-burly-TEASE!
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
Mouthwater: Disabled Arts Festival
All events will be ASL interpreted. All venues have step-free access to the bathrooms and performance spaces. There will be a variety of seating and ear plugs available in venue spaces. Please reach out to cripdancedoula@gmail.com
Outside Base
The Factory has a ramped entrance located at the north end of the building, through the orange door. The building has limited outside lighting and can be difficult to navigate and locate when it’s dark out.
Inside Base
Base is accessible by ramp through our front doors. Please note that Base is not a scent-free space and our tech booth is only accessible by a steep ladder. Base has one single stall restroom that is wheelchair accessible and a small kitchen area with a fridge, microwave, oven and stove. The Factory has two gender neutral multi-stall restrooms and two single stall restrooms that are wheelchair accessible.
Because we share a building with other studios, there are often industrial noises throughout the building and heavy machinery operated such as forklifts.
Please note that Base does not have air conditioning.