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Billie Madley (USA) Masterclass 2011

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Potts Point, Australia

Billie Madley (USA) Masterclass 2011

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Respect the stage and make every move count 

(you’re not a go-go dancer,  you’re a story teller) 

  • Find your own unique voice navigating the slippery slope of taking from the past and creating a completely original production.   
  • Creating persona with what you look like AND gravitate to regardless of what your body shape is, to show it off with PRIDE  glamour and strength (this is as much from the inside out ) 
  • Film history and where to dig for inspiration 
  • Where to find music and why you choose 
  • The importance of costume and the constant element of surprise. 
  • Silhouette body choices that are created with costume and lingerer for each individual era that  inspires the individual performer (with a huge vintage underwear collection  I can demonstrate Silhouette for different eras i.e.  20s 30s 40s 50s 60s) 
  • Styling and  creating  costume 
  • Where to find costume and create on the cheap 

MAKE UP AND HAIR 

creating super glamorous looks using what you got 

and teaching step by step stage make-up 


SELF  CHOREOGRAPH 

  • How to listen to music, and let the MUSIC dictate movement 
  • how to work it out in front of the mirror 
  • Allowing impulse to take over and carving a finished  choreographed number . 
  • Useful gimmicks, razzle dazzle 
  • AND stuff I’ve found that just works. 

ACTING   

  • Choices that draw the audience to you.   
  • Preparation.  
  • Acting exercises that allow you to be free in front of the audience 
  • Creating character internal story line and dialogue 
  • Using the audience without letting them shake your focus
  • Deepen what your doing to make something superficial into art

PRODUCING YOUR SHOW. 

  • The extremely important lighting 
  • The freedom that comes from being prepared and rehearsed 
  • Knowing your space 

ABOUT BILLIE MADLEY

Billie Madley is a multidisciplinary artist using popular culture and style as her medium. A mixologist of high- and low-brow performance and style, her work straddles the fashion, art, and theatre worlds.


As a performance artist, she performed all over NYC then The UK and Germany. Her work as a burlesque artist is considered, by many , to have been the first breath of the current burlesque movement (1992).... A graduate of the 
Meisner technique acting (Richard Pinter of Neighborhood Playhouse) went on do theater in NY..., and create and produce projects including "Cinema" and "Girlstown" (off-Broadway) , receiving Critic's Pick Timeout, Village Voice, Backstage, and The New Yorker 1996, 1999, 2004. She has been the subject of documentaries for HBO. the BBC, and can be seen in Jill Morley"s film "Stripped"..

Using herself as subject, her self styled image has been used in advertising campaigns, books, magazines, and CD covers. Works using Madley as subject have hung in galleries including the Museum of Modern Art MOMA in nyc, also exhibited in the mens toilets in the Bloomingdale's nyc SOHO location.. Photographed by many notable photographers including Bunny Yeager, Terry Richardson, Ellen von Unwerth. and collaborated for years with Richie Fahey , depicting Characters she created for stage and print, Also cartooned in the New Yorker magazine. And the cover of Timeout London

She has contributed as editor and stylist to numerous fashion magazines, including I-D, The Face, Blitz (UK), Vogue (Australian), Petra and Tempo (Germany), and Interview in London and the U.S... Written for the Village Voice.. Worked trend forecaster and consultant to designers in the fashion world and contributing styles for Sarah Jessica Parker in the "Sex and the City " films I and 2


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where


177 Victoria Street
Potts Point, 2010
Australia