Last time Bushwick Burlesque put on this tribute to performance artist Marina Abramovic, Zoe Ziegfel did a piece titled The Stripper is Present. Read more about it here.
Bushwick Burlesque
Bushwick Burlesque
Darlinda Just Darlinda and Scary Ben’s burlesque troupe has paid tribute to everyone from Marina Abramovic to Sealo the Sealboy. We’d be understating it if we said never a dull moment.
Bushwick Burlesque
Darlinda Just Darlinda and Scary Ben’s burlesque troupe has paid tribute to everyone from Marina Abramovic to Sealo the Sealboy. We’d be understating it if we said never a dull moment.
Bushwick Burlesque
Darlinda Just Darlinda and Scary Ben’s burlesque troupe has paid tribute to everyone from Marina Abramovic to Sealo the Sealboy. We’d be understating it if we said never a dull moment.
Bushwick Burlesque
Darlinda Just Darlinda and Scary Ben’s burlesque troupe has paid tribute to everyone from Marina Abramovic to Sealo the Sealboy. We’d be understating it if we said never a dull moment.
Bushwick Burlesque
Darlinda Just Darlinda and Scary Ben’s burlesque troupe has paid tribute to everyone from Marina Abramovic to Sealo the Sealboy. We’d be understating it if we said never a dull moment.
The Schlep Sisters Celebrate Ten Years of Schtick
(Photos by Melody Mudd) Darlinda Just Darlinda (L) and Minnie Tonka (R) perform at their anniversary show.
The Schlep Sisters, the burlesque duo of Darlinda Just Darlinda and Minnie Tonka, have celebrated ten years as a team, performing what they call “the sexiest slap-‘schtick.’” Their acts lean towards the ridiculous, with unison choreography and ditzy frozen smiles often accenting music by The Barry Sisters. Themed shows take the oy-vey to the extreme, such as The Burning Bush vs. The Second Coming, which offered Jews and Christians a way to duke it out goodnaturedly about Passover vs. Easter—and featured an audience game of “Hide the Afikomen” using Tigger’s body for maximum hilarity.
Because a Burlesque Tribute to Marina Abramovic Needed to Happen…
The real Marina Abramović is often busy chatting with the New Yorker about “being present,” making a film about James Franco and perfecting the Abramović Method, which mere mortals will soon be able to learn at the Marina Abramović Institute. Thankfully, the trend to imitate, pay tribute to or otherwise parody the famed performance artist means that we can always get our fix, even when the artist herself is not present.
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