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SUMMARY:Slow & Sensual: Accessible Burlesque
DESCRIPTION:Slow & Sensual is an accessible burlesque movement workshop that invites performers to slow down\, deepen their sensual presence\, and build erotic charge through gaze\, breath\, delay\, touch\, stillness\, and intentional movement. Developed by Alyssa Kitt\, the workshop brings together striptease technique\, somatic movement\, disability dance\, crip time\, and sensual pacing to explore how tease can emerge from each performer’s own bodymind rather than from able-bodied expectations of speed\, stamina\, verticality\, or virtuosity. Through guided movement\, reflection\, and practical slow-burn exercises\, Slow & Sensual treats access as a creative method and celebrates slowness\, pleasure\, fatigue\, rest\, and non-normative movement as powerful aesthetic and erotic resources. \nDate: Sunday\, August 16\, 2026\, 2-3:50 PM \nEvent link: http://schoolofburlesque.com/alyssakitt.shtml \nOPEN LEVEL WORKSHOP \nAccess note\nThis workshop welcomes Deaf\, blind\, disabled\, chronically ill\, neurodivergent\, and mobility-device-using participants. ASL interpretation available by request. Movement material will be verbally described and adaptable across standing\, seated\, reclining\, floor-based\, still\, resting\, and mobility-device-based options. Participants are welcome to bring any mobility devices\, comfort props\, or access tools they use.\nDress for movement and comfort. \nAbout Your Instructor\nAlyssa Kitt Hanley is a burlesque performer\, teacher\, researcher\, and Disa-burly-teaser whose work explores striptease\, sensuality\, disability\, and the politics of performance. Known as the “Siren with the $7 million smile\,” Alyssa began her burlesque career in Australia in 2007 and has spent nearly two decades developing work around tease\, stage presence\, slow-burn sensuality\, and embodied performance practice. Her teaching invites students into burlesque as a practice of erotic self-authorship\, confidence\, pleasure\, and embodied agency\, with a strong commitment to access and bodily difference. Alyssa is an award-winning performer\, producer of Mx Burlesque Australia\, Director of the Australian Burlesque Museum\, a Social Practice CUNY Faculty Fellow\, and a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center\, where her research focuses on erotic performance\, burlesque\, disability\, and dance. She is also a cancer survivor and beauty activist championing facial difference\, and is passionate about creating burlesque spaces where sensuality\, difference\, and self-directed movement are celebrated as sources of power. \nWorkshop fee: $40.00\nSliding scale available for access reasons\, including disability\, chronic illness\, low income\, student/unwaged status\, or financial precarity. \nLocation: Playwrights Horizons\, 440 Lafayette\, Fourth Floor\, Studio 4A. Greenwich Village 10003\nIf you have trouble with the buzzer or elevator call 212-564-1235 \nIn Person in New York City!\nClass size is strictly limited. \nPrepayment to register required\, so please sign up with the Venmo button below the class description. If Venmo doesn’t work for you\, please email Alyssa Kitt (alyssa_kitt@hotmail.com) to make other arrangements. \nThis workshop has been developed with support from Social Practice CUNY.
URL:https://socialpracticecuny.org/event/slow-sensual-accessible-burlesque/
LOCATION:Playwrights Horizons\, 440 Lafayette Street\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alyssa Kitt":MAILTO:alyssa_kitt@hotmail.com
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