Jo Weldon

My Burlesque Classes, Events, and Performance Schedule--
Click on links for more information about each event.

Above: Peeling at the Slipper Room!

PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS

Private performances and classes are not listed.

In New York City Through January 22:

Saturday, January 13, 8-10
Jo B$$BS Weldon presents:
School of Burlesque Student Showcase at the Slipper Room!
After
10:30-2 The Hot Box Burlesque at the Slipper Room
http://www.slipperroom.com

Sunday, January 14, 10 pm
Sweet N Nasty's Vegas Edition!
http://www.sweetandnastyburlesque.com/

Tuesday 10:30 pm
Gold Rush at Lotus
http://www.starshineburlesque.com/schedule.shtml

Friday January 19 10:00 pm
Pinchbottom's Film Strip!
I'll be debuting my "Taxi Driver" number
http://www.pinchbottom.com

Saturday January 20 Midnight
Badass Burlesque

http://www.badassburlesque.com

January 23, 2007 7:30 PM
Advanced Stocking and Glove Removal
Home Alive
1415 10th Ave, 2d floor
Seattle, WA 98122
Learn to artfully remove those delicate items that have become characteristic of classic Burlesque routines!
Nobody knows burlesque like Jo Weldon. She first stripped on stage in 1978, a tad underage at the Rocky Horror Picture Show, flinging her boa about with a passion that persists to this day.
She mounted the stage professionally as soon as she was of age, and over time she advanced to the level of feature dancer, booked to headline at strip joints across the continent, always keeping the ladies of burlesque in mind as she created her elaborately costumed and themed acts. She has been studying the art of striptease for over two decades. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/9580

January 24, 2007 6:14 PM Until 8:28 PM
Burlesque Lecture Series! once-in-a-lifetime lectures!
"Pleasure, Pain and the Homovestite"
Jennifer Nace AKA The Naughty Librarian
"Exotic Dance in Contemporary Film"
Professor Jo "Boobs" Weldon
Jan 24, 2007 6:14
The Heavens (former Catwalk) 172 S. Washington, Seattle, $5
The Academy of Burlesque and The Swedish Housewife Present (the first ever...) Seattle Burlesque Lecture Series 2007
"Pleasure, Pain, and the Homovestite" by Jennifer Nace, The Naughty Librarian:
Jennifer Nace has performed burlesque for years as The Naughty Librarian (and other 'Gal Fridays'), worked at various red-light establishments, and has a bachelor's degree in Modern Dance and a Master's of Library Science. She will delve into the subjects of race, body image, and sexuality as they relate to burlesque performance, and will discuss how burlesque is currently placed within a feminist aesthetic and interpreted differently because of its temporal and visceral qualities. "Pleasure, Pain, and the Homovestite" is an amalgamation of her thoughts on political voyeurism, black/whiteface, audience as canvas, dysmorphia, performance as a sexual act. She will be using examples from popular culture, focusing on how our ideas of what it is ok to perform are shaped by the cultural landscape.
"Exotic Dance in Contemporary Film" by Professor Jo "Boobs" Weldon:
Jo Boobs has over 20 years of striptease and exotic dance experience. As an educator she has lectured about burlesque and stripping at NYU, The New School, the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Conference, and other academic venues, has lobbied at the UN, and has published dozens of articles, essays, and poems on the subjects of performative gender and sexual identity.
Rather than being a historical overview of the subject, her talk is an analysis of the techniques some filmmakers have used to present exotic dance, how it is presented differently in commercial films than in burlesque or stag reels, and what exotic dance can mean within a plot or characterization. The film clips include footage of Elvira, Diane Lane, Salma Hayek, and Christopher Walken.
Academic Lecture fee qualifies you for reduced admission on THIS IS BURLESQUE 7 Show that immediately follows the lectures. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/9582

January, 24 2007 at This "IS" Burlesque #7 at The Heavens
172 South Washington (formerly The Catwalk), Seattle, Washington 98104
Cost : $14 at the door
This *IS* Burlesque! # 7 - an Intimate Evening of Brains & Boobs X 7… & a one-hour Wild Go-Go Bar! Learn! Two Prime Lectures: 6:14 PM - THE NAUGHTY LIBRARIAN- “Power, Pain, and the Homovestite” 7:21 PM- PROFESSOR JO “BOOBS” WELDON- “Erotic Dance In Film” Tip! Seven Deadly Sinful Dancers at 8:28 See! Seven Wonders of The World at 9:35- Miss Exotic World 2004 - Miss Dirty Martini, Jo Boobs, Lily Verlaine, Kitten La Rue, Vienna La Rouge, Miss Indigo Blue, The Swedish Housewife Cover: *Lectures only $5! Register at brownpapertickets.com- Lecture attediees receive a discount for show entry only $11 all others $14 at the door ONLY! Doors open at 6pm for the lectures

IT BEGINS The Sex Workers' Art Show Tour is coming to your town! The show is an eye-popping evening of visual and performance art created by people who work in the sex industry to dispel the myth that they are anything short of artists, innovators, and geniuses!
The wildly successful cabaret-style show is hitting the road again, bringing audiences a blend of spoken word, music, drag, burlesque, and multimedia performance art. Intelligent and hot, disturbing and hilarious, the performances offer a wide range of perspectives on sex work, from celebration of prostitutes' rights and sex-positivity to views from the darker sides of the industry.
This year's incredible lineup of performers includes international burlesque sensation Miss Dirty Martini; award-winning author of How I Learned to Snap Kirk Read; acclaimed Whitney Biennial artist Julie Atlas Muz; author of Happy Baby and My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up Stephen Elliott; stripper historian and burlesque professor Jo Weldon; member of the internationally renowned Japanese performance collective Dumb Type, Cono Snatch Zubobinskaya; enigmatic operatic musician Reginald Lamar; feminist smut purveyor and queer film star Amber Dawn; filmmaker and performer Bridget Irish; and tour founder and ringmaster Annie Oakley.
The show includes people from all areas of the sex industry: strippers, prostitutes, dommes, film stars, phone sex operators, internet models, etc. It smashes traditional stereotypes and moves beyond "positive" and "negative" into a fuller articulation of the complicated ways sex workers experience their jobs and their lives. The Sex Workers' Art Show entertains, arouses, and amazes while simultaneously offering scathing and insightful commentary on notions of class, race, gender, labor and sexuality!

Click here for detailed information
Jan
25 Portland, OR Reed College
26 Olympia, WA Washington Center for the Performing Arts
27 Arcata, CA Humboldt State University
28 San Francico, CA The Cellspace
29 Santa Barbara, CA UCSB
30 San Diego, CA The Rubber Rose
31 Claremont, CA Pitzr College
Feb
1 Tucson, AZ The Space
2 Flagstaff, AZ Northern Arizona University
3 Santa Fe, NM College of Santa Fe
5 Austin, TX Arts on Real
6 Austin, TX Arts on Real
8 New Orleans, LA Zeitgeist Gallery
9 Huntsville, AL Flying Monkey Arts
10 Atlanta, GA Eyedrum Gallery
11 Richmond, VA Virginia Commonwealth University
12 Williamsburg, VA College of William and Mary
13 Philadelphia, PA University of Pennsylvania
14 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel (benefit for Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive)
15 Haverford, PA Haverford College
16 Baltimore, MD The Patterson Theatre
17 Boston, MA Coolidge Corner Theatre
18 Providence, RI Rhode Island School of Design
19 Annandale, NY Bard College
20 Bronxville, NY Sarah Lawrence College
21 Amherst, MA University of Mass.
22 Amherst, MA Hampshire College
23 New York, NY Mo Pitkins
25 pending
26 Cleveland, OH Case Western Reserve Univ.
27 pending
28 pending
March
1 Chicago, IL The Abbey (benefit for Young Women's Empowerment Project)
Click here for detailed information

Photo by Dale Harris.

PAST

Thursday, January 12, I'll be reading my article "The Persistence of Burlesque" as part of a panel for Spread Magazine, Winner of the 2005 Utne Independent Press Award for "Best New Title" at Bluestockings Bookstore, 7-9 pm.

Saturday, January 14th, 10 pm, I'll be in Badass Burlesque!
@ the Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery @ Bleeker, NYC

Fri., Jan 13; Sat., Jan 28; Fri., Feb 17--Triple Threat!
I'll be performing, go-going, and teaching at the Slipper Room!
I'll be bringing members out of the audience to teach them tassel-twirling.
Participants get a free pair of pasties for their efforts!
This show tends to run late-night, beginning after 11 pm.

Saturday, January 28:

Thursday, Feb 9, I'll be at Starshine Burlesque!

February 11th I'll be in Baltimore with the fabulous Trixie Little!

February 12th I'll be in DC with the notorious Lobster Boy Revue!

February 14, 8 pm--Student Showcase!
Students who've attended my workshops are ready to bring it on!
I've been teaching the bump n grind, the shimmy, the tassel-twirl, and the big reveal for over two years.
Come to see what my students have learned!

February 17, 8 pm
Shock and Awe A-Go-Go!
Don't miss this unique show! It's one of my faves!
The Cutting Room, 19 W. 24th St. Bet. Broadway and 6th Ave.

February 19, 10 pm
With the Red Hots!
Rififi, 332 E. 11th St, NYC
It's Nasty Canasta's Birthday!

Wed., March 1, 10 pm
Surf Burlesque at the Bowery Poetry Club!
With Helenn Stratford, Remy Vicious, Tigger, and the World Famous Bob.

Fri., March 3, midnite
I'll be go-going at Motor City while Rocket spins rock n roll!
We had to make a deal with the local community board to allow this.
We had to put a curtain up to block the street view.
One of the members of the community board said it reminded her of the brothel windows in Amsterdam.
I said thank you!

Weekend of March 10, 2006:

Friday Night:

Shock and Awe A-Go-Go
at the Cutting Room!
Shock and Awe A-Go-Go!

Saturday Afternoon:

The Art and Craft of Burlesque!
School of Burlesque

Saturday Night:

Rob's Birthday Spectacular!
A Version of Surf Reality
Bowery Poetry Club

Late Saturday Night:
Honi Harlow's Moulin Rouge!
Honi Harlow

Sunday, March 26, 8:30 pm
With the World Famous Pontani Sisters
at Marion's Continental!
One of my favorite experiences of all time!

Late Night, April 8--Triple Threat!
I'll be performing, go-going, and teaching at the Slipper Room!
I'll be bringing members out of the audience to teach them tassel-twirling.
Participants get a free pair of pasties for their efforts!
This show tends to run late-night, beginning after 11 pm.

Thursday, March 30--not a performance
Sex Work Matters: Beyond Divides
I'll be presenting a paper about what it's like to be interviewed as a sex worker.

Wednesday, April 5, 10 pm--Surf Burlesque!
Burlesque is back on the Bowery! A great mix of live music, performance art, and the best of New York Burlesque.
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleecker $10

Coney Island Benefit!
Friday, April 7, 2006, 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
at Crobar 530 west 28th Street (between 10th and 11th) Sponsored Bar from 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM

Fri., April 7, midnite
I'll be go-going at Motor City while Rocket spins rock n roll!
We had to make a deal with the local community board to allow this.
We had to put a curtain up to block the street view.
One of the members of the community board said it reminded her of the brothel windows in Amsterdam.
I said thank you!

April 8, 2:30 pm--The Art and Craft of Burlesque!
A dance class for ladies who want to learn to bump, grind, peel, an twirl!
Click here for all the info!

April 8, 8 pm--Student Showcase! New York's Newest Performers!
Students who've attended my workshops are ready to bring it on!
I've been teaching the bump n grind, the shimmy, the tassel-twirl, and the big reveal for over two years.
Come to see what my students have learned!
All my students will show off the skills they've acquired, at the beautiful Slipper Room!

Late Night, April 8--Triple Threat!
I'll be performing, go-going, and teaching at the Slipper Room!
I'll be bringing members out of the audience to teach them tassel-twirling.
Participants get a free pair of pasties for their efforts!
This show tends to run late-night, beginning after 11 pm.

Saturday, April 15, midnight
Badass Burlesque!
Unconventional performances from New York's downtown art stars!

Tuesday, April 18, 7:30
Ducky Doolittle's Book Release Party at Babeland!
Come on, peel me a grape!

Wednesday, April 19, 11 pm
With Honi Harlow at Mo Pitkins!
If you thought the 80s were tacky in the 80s, wait till you see them tonight!

March 23-April 21
My photos will be mounted and for sale at Crime Scene Bar and Gallery!

Burlesque Classes June 4, 11, 18, 25--Click here for details.

Wednesday, June 7, 10 pm--Surf Burlesque!
Burlesque is back on the Bowery! A great mix of live music, performance art, and the best of New York Burlesque.
Featuring Honi Harlow, Lukki, and the World Famous Bob!
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleecker $10

Wednesday, June 10, 8 pm, at the Slipper Room!
Don't miss the student showcase! Some of New York's newest performers will be gracing the Slipper Room stage. If you've been thinking about takinga burlesque class, this is a perfect opportunity to see what my students have been learning!
Afterward, I'll be performing, go-going, and maybe even teaching some tassel-twirling!

Sunday, June 11, 10 pm, at Rififi!
With Sweet N Nasty

Friday June 16, 10 pm
All-Fan-Dance Burlesque with Pinchbottom!

Wed., June 21, 10 pm
At the Slipper Room!

Thursday, June 22, 10 pm
At Starshine Burlesque!

Fri, June 23, 8 pm
At Shock and Awe A-Go-Go!

Sat., June 24, midnite
At The Delancey!

Mon., June 26, 7 pm
At The Cutting Room!

Wed., June 28, 11 pm
With Honi Harlow!

July 5, 7 pm
With Margaret Cho's The Sensuous Woman!

Monday, April 24th, 10 pm
SCHWAG!
Nancy Balbirer's monthly Wingding Love-Pageant presenting Original Stories, Songs, Sketches and Stripteases, with NYC's hottest performing artists, literati, and p.o.’d pranksters. Starring: Julie Halston, Mike Albo, Cintra Wilson, PuPu Platter, ASH-X, and the sensuous stylings of Burlesque star, Jo Weldon. Featuring The Schwag Band. A post-modern "Laugh-In" for the Ritalin crowd, SCHWAG! Is a gift bag of goodies for our beleaguered souls!
With: Mike Albo, Nancy Balbirer, Edward Burke, Peter Frechette,
Julie Halston, Risa Mickenberg and Joel Shelton from “Jesus H. Christ”
Bob Morris, PuPu Platter, Jo Weldon, Cintra Wilson
Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction, 34 Avenue A between 2nd and 3rd
How Much: $15 cover; 1 cheap drink!
Reservations: 212-777-5660
Why: BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT!

Saturday, April 29, 3-4 pm
Burlesque Class
Details

Saturday, April 29, midnight on
Dirty Bomb!
Details

Wednesday, May 3, 10 pm--Surf Burlesque!
Burlesque is back on the Bowery! A great mix of live music, performance art, and the best of New York Burlesque.
Featuring Bambi the Mermaid, Bunny Love, and Remy Vicious!
The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery at Bleecker $10

Saturday, May 6, 3-4 pm
Fan Dance Burlesque Class
Details

Thursday May 11th, 10 pm

Exotic World Benefit at Starshine Burlesque!

Friday May12th, 10 pm
Burlesque at the Beach at Coney Island!

Saturday, May 13, 3-4 pm
Burlesque Class
Details

Saturday May 13th, 11 pm
With Honi Harlow and Scotty the Blue Bunny at The Vital Theatre!

Saturday May 16th, 7:30 pm
An Evening at the Grindhouse!

Friday May 19th, 10 pm
Science Fiction Burlesque with Pinchbottom!

Saturday, May 20, 3-4 pm
Burlesque Class
Details

IN LAS VEGAS
Friday May 26-Sunday, May 28, 2006
Miss Exotic World 2006 Pageant and Festivities!
With the Tease-O-Rama Convention!

Wed, Aug 2, 10 pm, Bowery Poetry Club
My birthday party at Surf Burlesque!

Tuesdays, August 8, 15, 22, Burlesque Master Class in Coney Island!

Saturday, August 12, Student Showcase, Slipper Room

Sunday. August 13, Kitty Nights!

Friday, August 18, Bambi's Blacklight Spectacular at Coney Island!

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Saturday, Aug 19 DOUBLE HEADER
Orginal Cyn, Park Slope
Bad Ass! at the Bowery Poetry Club

Sunday, August 20th at Galapagos Art Space
FROM UNDERGROUND
A night of strange and varied entertainments celebrating the release of Jeff VanderMeer's new novel Shriek: An Afterword 70 N. 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (directions) Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; things start rolling at 7:30 and close down by 11. $7 admission.

Wednesday, August 23
Runaround Sue's Show at KGB Bar!
Sugar Shack Burlesque

Friday, August 25, Follies Fromage!
New York Stripcheese at it's Dairy Best!

Satruday, August 26, Go-Go at Dirty Bomb!
At the Delancey, at Delancy and Attorney Streets

August 27, Ask the Experts
With Bambi the Mermaid and Julie Atlas Muz

Friday, September 1, 2-4 pm.
"Getting Your Act Together"
This is not a class, but a true workshop! Bring your acts and/or ideas to this event and get input from veteran performers including Miss Indigo Blue of the Academy of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World 2005 Michelle L'amour (of "America's Got Talent" fame!), Jo "Boobs" Weldon of the New York School of Burlesque, and Torchy Taboo, of Torchy Taboo's Traveling Charm School! This is not intended to be a critique but simply an opportunity to get support and input from experienced performers in taking your act where you want it to go. You can bring an idea, a costume, or even perform your entire act for the panel and the other members of the class, and receive positive and knowledgeable suggestions to make your act the most effective it can be! DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED.

September 1-3
The New York Burlesque Festival!
Presenting the first-ever performance of my troupe, the Belles of the Bowery, in a salute to Jethro Tull!

Wed, September 6
The First-Ever Belles of the Bowery Show!
With a reprise of our shocking number from the New York Burlesque Festival
Featuring Belles: Fem Appeal, Burgundy Brixx, Miss Clams Casino, and Honi Harlow
Plus special Luminary Guests Torchy Taboo and Pa-Ooh-La the Swedish Housewife!Bowery Poetry Club

Thursday, September 7, Joe Coleman's opening at the Tilton Gallery. Details

September 9, 10, 17, 23
The New York School of Burlesque is in session!
Learn to bump, grind, shimmy, peel, and twirl tassels! Two hour workshop, plus 3 one-hour classes. With each two hour workshop, you'll receive a copy of my 30-page handbook. Pastie-making kits will be available so you'll be able to create your own round, heart-shaped, or star-shaped pasties.

September 13
With Honi Harlow!

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September 20
Den of Cin!

September 28
Starshine Burlesque!

September 30
Dirty Bomb!

Sunday, November 12, 10 pm
After an action-packed weekend of teaching burlesque classes, I'll be performing Sunday night at Rififi in Sweet N Nasty Burlesque!
10 pm at 332 E. 11th St. between 1st & 2nd Ave., $5
http://www.sweetandnastyburlesque.com/
A night of glamour and clamour hosted by my secret love, Scotty the Blue Bunny.

Paperback Burlesque is sponsored by:
Dirty Book Art
Exit 9
The Pleasure Chest
The Slipper Room
The School of Burlesque

I can't wait!
Thursday, October 19, 8 pm
Shock and Awe A-Go-Go!
Don't miss this unique show! It's one of my faves!
The Cutting Room, 19 W. 24th St. Bet. Broadway and 6th Ave.

I can't wait!
WORLD FAMOUS BOB HOSTS!
The Belles of the Bowery will be performing "Big Balls" by AC/DC
and "Aqualung" by Jethro Tull at the Slipper Room, October 25.
167 Orchard at Stanton 10 pm $5
Belles Website
The unbelievably cute Gigi and Pop
open for us at 9 pm.

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Micro G-Strings and Bullet Bras!