Super Slicer Racy Lacey

Name: Super Slicer Racy Lacey
From: New Jersey
Interests: Slicing, Big Knives, Blood baths, Haunted Houses, Zombie  Proms
Favorite Movies: Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, The Exorcist
Favorite TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Dexter
Favorite Books: Bram Stoker’s Dracula & The Shining

Why I love DD: Because it makes me feel gorgeous!

Jo “Boobs” Weldon

 

 

Name: Jo Boobs Weldon
From: New York City
Interests: Burlesque, and Sex Workers’ Rights
Favorite Movies: A Wink and a Smile, Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hellraiser, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Favorite TV: Dexter, Madmen, Dr. Who, Rescue Me
Favorite Books: The Last Unicorn, and The Handmaid’s Tale

Why I love DD: Of course it’s gorgeous, but what gets me isThe Fit! It’s just impossible to feel sexy in something that doesn’t fit, no matter how beautiful it is. Dirty Dolls fits so well you feel loved!

Want to see more of Jo, check out her upcoming projects: How to Strip Out of a Wedding Dress DVD, and Pink Light Burlesque, a burlesque troupe of breast cancer survivors and patients.

Bio
Jo Weldon is the Headmistress and Founder of the New York School of Burlesque, and is one of the most recognized burlesque instructor in the world. She has been interviewed for or mentioned in countless major press articles, films, documentaries, news items, and television shows. Internationally renowned as burlesque personality Jo Boobs, she’s rounded her heels on stages from Coney Island to Sydney Harbour. She was recently voted one of the Top 3 Burlesque Performers in the World. She’s taught thousands of women (and men!) to twirl tassels, and has conducted performance workshops producing some of the most respected new performers in burlesque. She recently taught burlesque to disabled performers at DaDaFest in Liverpool. She’s the winner of such exotic titles as Best Bump N Grinder, Best Teacher and Mentor, and Biggest Cougar in Burlesque! She has worked with performers from Leonard Cohen to Spinal Tap, and has been featured on television shows from CBS Sunday Morning to Gossip Girl. She’s taken it off in the grimiest strip clubs and at the most esteemed venues, including The New York Public Library, and has performed and headlined at dozens of festivals all over the world. She is Co-Director of Education at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, Co-Curator of Burlycon, and conducts the Master Class in Burlesque at Coney Island USA. She has released three acclaimed how-to burlesque DVDs, and her book The Burlesque Handbook, with a foreword by Margaret Cho, is the first book ever published on how to create burlesque routines.

Beckarina


Name: Beckarina
From: Brooklyn, NY
Interests: fashion, art, music, dance, graffiti, toy design, make-up, shopping and yoga
Favorite Movies: exit through the gift shop, true romance, black swan, goonies, mean girls, and pee wee’s big adventure
Favorite TV: mad men, true blood, criminal minds, dexter, 30 rock, and chelsea lately
Favorite Books: Star magazine – does that count! :)
Why I love DD: Because not only is it beautiful, sexy and unique, it makes you feel beautiful, sexy and unique when you put it on!!