North Star Nerdlesque: Body Language for Mobility Restrictions

North Star Nerdlesque: Body Language for Mobility Restrictions

The Rabbit Hole: Minnesota Performing Arts Cooperative (MPAC) presents this year's North Star Nerdlesque Festival classes!

About the class: Every human on the planet will become disabled if they live long enough which means we will all experience mobility restrictions in our lives! This class will explore performing in partnership with your body during these times rather than battling against it. Jacqueline Boxx guides attendees through an introduction to mind-body awareness and mobility restrictions using group discussion, guided visualizations, and movement/dance practice with an emphasis on adaptation for injury and disability. This workshop is designed to be fully accessible and to lead to fully captivating performances!

About your teacher, Jacqueline Boxx: Jacqueline Boxx's mobility aids are as enticing as her activism, and she packs an aesthetic and emotional punch, whether she brings classic tease, nerdlesque, or neo-burlesque to the stage. She is a devoted burlesque performer, instructor, show producer, and disability activist, and has taught workshops and lectured on panels about mindful movement and adaptive performance across the world, headlining in Adelaide, Vienna, Montreal, and more. She is a founder and core instructor at the Baltimore-based burlesque teaching collective Essential Tease which regularly teaches both online and in-person classes and produces student showcases.Jacqueline has competed and been featured at the Burlesque Hall of Fame four times in total and, in 2017, she became the first performer to ever compete in a wheelchair for a title at the Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender. She was the 2023 Monarch of Pacific Northwest Burlesque and 21st Century Burlesque Magazine named her one of the top 50 most influential burlesque performers in the world in 2022. She is: Miss Disa-burly-TEASE!

To enter the class, please go to the front of the building and follow the directions on the posted signage! Closer to the day of classes, we will send out additional information about entering the building if use of an elevator is required with pictures, as well as a contact number if you have any questions!

Street parking is available, please pay attention to signage as meters may be active.

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