Master muscular manipulations of your every bump and grind, captivate your audience with every inch of your body. In this class, we will be running drills which unlock, stretch and activate muscle isolations, rolls and flourishes with the hips, chest and arms. To finish we will connect everything by learning various flow transitions between our movements.

Bring water and a yoga matt or pad for your knees.

We will be working with bare feet or dance slippers in class.

Melody Mangler is an award winning, internationally renowned burlesque performer. She co-founded both the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival as well as Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society and has gotten over 300 women onto the burlesque stage for their first time through her signature two month course Becoming Burlesque. Starting her burlesque career in 2003, she is known as Vancouver's tattooed fireball, and has been a constant competitor at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas winning Best Debut, Best Large Group and Most Comedic. From clowning, to gorelesque to chair acrobatics, you never know what strange world Melody will create for you on the stage.