Teacher Training Program
Are you interested in learning how to teach the Art of Burlesque? Please contact Headmistress Cheripop Purr at burlesque@sasktel.net for more information. She requests that you send a current 1 page performance and/or teaching resume alongside of a short letter of interest explaining your connections with Burlesque and your teaching intentions.
You will learn:
- General Teaching skills
- History of Burlesque
- The advance and retreat and the Burlesque walk
- Small reveals vs Large events in choreography
- Glove and stocking peels
- Parasol and Fan techniques
- How to make, attach and twirl pasties
- Feather boa techniques
- Clothing removal and discard techniques
- Basics of dance building and choreography
- How to sell/market your classes
Original lesson plans created by Headmistress Purr can be licensed upon completion of the teacher training program. A limited number of applicants will be selected per season to participate in this program. Preference will be given to those with a strong performance or teaching background.
Please contact burlesque@sasktel.net to discuss fees and scheduling.
