Explore how drag, burlesque’s sister artform, can elevate your performance style and bring new depth to your stage presence. This class will cover the history and distinct elements of each art form, exploring what makes drag drag, and what makes burlesque burlesque. Learn how to make impactful creative choices around lip syncing, reveals, costume, and makeup, plus get insider tips on navigating the different performance scenes, show formats, and booking styles.
Impulse Purchase draws on her insight from both worlds to guide students in combining the two artforms in a way that is authentic and purposeful. The class wraps up with a fun and friendly Draglesque lip sync battle, giving everyone a chance to shine.
Students Should Bring:
Notebook and pen
About the Austin Academy of Burlesque:
The Austin Academy of Burlesque is dedicated to the instruction of burlesque performance and history. We teach movement, character development, performance development and fitness in a positive, diverse, and welcoming environment. We resolve to build the local burlesque community by creating a safer, inclusive space, and uphold the values of a just, feminist, and humanist society.
About Your Instructor:
Impulse Purchase is a local Austin drag queen and multitalented performer, better known in the burlesque world as Zenyth. She has been performing burlesque since 2013 and drag since 2017. A graduate of the Austin Academy of Burlesque, she works burlesque skills and style into her drag performances. Impulse has teased and lip synced all across Texas and beyond, including Austin International Drag Festival and Austin Pride. Specializing in makeup, creativity, improvisation, and serving cunt, she’s also a drag mother, an activist for queer rights, and a really good time.
48-hour Class Cancellation Policy
You may cancel your registration and get a full refund when you contact the Academy more than 48 hours before the start of class. When you contact us with less than 48 hours notice, your fee is not refundable. You may however, transfer your spot to a friend or donate your spot.
A 3 student minimum will be required for a class to take place. In the event a class needs to be canceled due to low attendance, students and will be given 48 hrs notice and will be fully refunded.
