Fabulous Femininities: extravagant costume and transformative threshold Documentary launch and post-premiere discussion.

The Fabulous Femininities documentary focuses on the burlesque journeys and extravagant costumed stories of six fabulous performers from across the UK. The documentary premiere will be followed by a ‘live’ discussion via zoom with the performers and producers involved in the film. The documentary charts a three-year project (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council) which encapsulates the significance of burlesque for the community and showcases the importance of costume. The film crew (Birmingham’s Slate and Mortar) and research team (Dr Jacki Willson and Dr Adele Mason-Bertrand) have had the pleasure of interviewing Dominus von Vexo and his House of Allure at Birmingham’s Nightingale Club; Trixie Blue and her House of Trixie Blue in Newcastle; Medusa Has Been and Night Petrichor at London’s Royal Vauxhall Tavern; Lady Blue Phoenix performing in Bath and Remy Brandee rehearsing in Huddersfield to uncover the important function that burlesque and its costumes have played in each of their lives.

We hope you can join us for a post-launch discussion between all these brilliant performers and the research team (Dr. Jacki Willson, Dr. Adele Mason-Bertrand and Prof. Alice O’Grady (University of Leeds) and Prof. Claire Nally (University of Northumbria’s) exploring costume as a transformative threshold. The event will conclude with a Q&A.