Lincoln center presents
Spotlight:
Bounce house:
A Burlesque celebration of
body abundance
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December 19 at the david rubenstein atrium at lincoln center
virtual program
Thanks for joining us for an evening of burlesque and live performance. We're thrilled to have you! This is your virtual playbill, and our stars are all profiled below. Please know this show is packed with adult themes, and people will be taking off their clothes.
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YES: feel free to cheer and clap when you see something you like!
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NO: flash photos, and no touching any performers (or anyone, really) without express consent. To be clear: we have zero tolerence for any harassment or unwanted touching.
A note: as in drag, gifts of generosity are time-honored traditions at burlesque shows. This is welcome but not required! If you feel inspired, for this show we ask that you gift via Venmo or Cashapp. Anything offered will be divided equally among the performers & the stage kitten following the show. Thanks in advance for all your love!
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Venmo LillianBustle (last 4 digits 0388)
Cashapp $lillianbustle
​​​OUR FABULOUS CASt in order of appearance​​​​
She is "The Girl Who'll Make You Stiff". Regal Mortis is a fat-positive Latina who has contributed her brand of Glitter Gore to NYC burlesque since 2015. She was a nominee for the Master of Macabre award (2018), Blood Feast Award (2021) at The White Elephant Burlesque Silver Tusk Awards, and Best Plus Size Burlesque (2023) at the Philly Phatty Awards. She is a member of Snacc Time Revue, an all-plus-size troupe based in Philadelphia. Regal has performed in productions nationwide and internationally, including the Ohio Burlesque Festival in Cleveland, Ohio, Take it Off Fat Burlesque Weekender in St.Paul, Minnesota, and Burlesque-ival in Edinburgh, Scotland!
Regal is also a photographer and founder of Regal Pictures, a body-positive/fat-positive boudoir photo studio in Brooklyn, NY, as well as the resident photographer for the bi-national dance company, Danse Theatre Surreality based in Paris & NYC.​
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Lily lavalocks​​​​​
Originally hailing from Denver, Lily relocated to New York to chase her showgirl dreams one tassel twirl at a time. Lily is a stripper who loves a good tipper! While she is known for glamorous grace in her burlesque endeavors, she thrives on being a slutty seductress and has always been a bad girl at heart!
Susie Dahl is a New York City-based plus-sized pin-up model and burlesque performer who’s been featured in Refinery29 UK and The New York Post. Known in the burlesque scene as “The Big Apple Babydoll Who’s Juicy and Sweet”, Susie has been gracing the pin-up world for nearly a decade. In addition to being a performer, Susie is now adding “producer” to her titles with the creation of “Susie Dahl’s Heaving Bosom - A Romance Themed Burlesque Show”. Combining classic vintage glamour and unabashed sex appeal, this pin-up princess is moving from the magazine page and strutting right into your heart.
Fat, freaky, and a little flamboyant, Muscles Monty is a multi-GLAM award nominated drag king, emcee, and co-producer of The Cake Boys, a NYC collective which highlights the art of drag kings, musicians, and queer performers. With big brains and an even bigger butt, Muscles uses his drag to foolishly interrogate the space between the binaries: the masculine versus the feminine, the glamourous versus the grotesque, and the bodily emotions versus the bodily emissions.
She's a Jersey Girl with a heart of gold, and she's ready to shake things up! This gutsy broad is a Burlesque performer, singer, MC, public speaker and gleeful loudmouth about body politics. You've seen her on festival stages from Anchorage Alaska to Austin, Texas, and she currently hosts and co-produces Bounce House, A Burlesque Celebration of Body Abundance.
Messages from her TEDx talk, Stripping Away Negative Body Image, have been shared by millions worldwide, and she has been profiled by media outlets like Refinery 29 and People.com.
In 2019, Lillian received the Women of Action award from Jersey City for her free speech advocacy, and completed a fellowship with the Index on Censorship to receive training and mentorship to continue challenging censorship and championing freedom of speech.
Lillian has presented on the topics of intersectional feminism, fat discrimination, and body image to institutions across the country. She also teaches workshops that explore movement and body awareness through the lens of Burlesque performance. You can hear Lillian on All The Fucks, a podcast about caring too much, with actor and writer Jen Ponton.
Although her first Burlesque performance was in 2012, she made her nightclub debut at the age of 14 as a singer in a drag show. She's been covered in glitter and boas ever since, and her mission is to help us all redefine the word "beautiful. “
Abby Fantastic, The Chocolate Milf-Shake of Burlesque, is an around the way girl from Queens, NY now spreading love the Brooklyn way. She got her start in the NYC burlesque scene in 2012 and became a MILF in 2013! She was 2024's Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend opener as part of the Movers, Shakers and Innovators Showcase. Abby has performed on both national and international stages and will be off to Strasbourg, France in January! She is so proud to be the Co-Producer of Bounce House Burlesque and an expert at bra tossing. Blending Blackness, Queerness, Humor, Hotness and Mom-ness into one plus-sized package, watch your head... you never know where the clothes will go flying!
Esmerelda is a multi award winning Burlesque Performer and multi award winning Cosplayer hailing from dirty NJ. As the producer of K-Pop That Pastie, (a Burlesque Variety Show set to kpop music), a co-producer of Cosplay Burlesque, member of White Elephant Burlesque, and Philly's Darkside Burlesque and all plus size Snacctime Review; this plus size latina performer has been performing across the US bringing her brand of nerdy, kpop, neo, metal, and classic Burlesque to stages everywhere for 15 years (this January). Esmerelda is always looking to mix all of their many interests into their art by adding a special sparkly/gothic twist to all they do!
Harlem Nyte (she/they) is a Chicago by-way of New York City based burlesque performer, choreographer, host and producer. She is an ensemble member of the Black-owned, POC burlesque troupe; Body Confidence For Queens. Since making her debut in 2022, Miss Nyte has performed in more than 30 cities and 3 international countries, most recently London, UK. Notable performances include the London Black Burlesque Festival, Ohio International Burlesque Festival, Chicago PrideFest, Panama International Burlesque Festival, The Juneteenth Jumpoff and Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater. In 2024, Harlem was awarded the Silver Tusk Award for outstanding burlesque newcomer. She’s since founded a production company. ‘Nytes In Harlem Production Co.’ Her mission is to curate shows and events dedicated to artists of color, typically the most underpaid and underbooked in the performing industry. Her original concept ‘R & Burlesque’ has grown from a concept, to a live show.
Broody Valentino, the “Teddy Bear With Claws,” Is a graduate of the New York School of Burlesque, Broody enjoys challenging the concepts of masculinity and body image through the use of humor, sensuality, and style - showing audiences that the big guys can sparkle with the best of them! His mixture of the classic and irreverent has earned him invitations to perform worldwide including the 2018 Life Ball in Vienna, Austria, VHOF 2020 & 2021, as well as the titles King of New Jersey Burlesque, Burlypicks 2018 World Championships Legends Award, the Golden Tassel for Best Boylesque at the Philadelphia Burlesque Awards, and the Beautiful Weirdo Award at the Alternatease Neo-Burlesque Festival.
Bleu Zephra Santiago aka Bleuberry Fields is a multidisciplinary artist who creates, performs and stage manages different intersections of burlesque, drag, performance art, spoken word and theater.
Cultivator, Coordinator and Connector, Monifa Brown is currently sprinkling her magic at New York's Lincoln Center. 2024 marked the debut of her Spotlight Burlesque Series at the David Rubenstein Atrium. This season's offerings are designed to showcase Burlesque. A unique opportunity to honor its beauty, its necessity, its past, its present and its future. The Spotlight : A Night at the Atrium Series will continue to ignite us.
Zipper Bags! All-Over Print Totes! Clocks, Notebooks, so much more! Check out our vending table for limited-edition souvenirs that are only avaible tonight.
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