Classes & Workshops
PRIVATE SESSION
Private sessions are for anyone, novice or experienced, who needs a little guidance with anything burlesque related. If you need help with act development, choreography, costuming, polishing an act or maybe even a fun little striptease for your partner to spice things up. Book a one on one session with Vivian today.
$50/ hr
CONSTRUCTING CHOREOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
The struggle to come up with choreography is all too common. How to deliver your story, come up with moves and expressions that are cohesive, and finding the right movement for your body. Join Vivian Brass in this 1.5 hour workshop to learn skills and tricks to help you in building burlesque routines that will be sure to captivate your crowd.
YOU VS YOU STUDIOS, CASTLEGAR
SUNDAY FEB 23 11:30AM
35$
HOW TO BE 10 Feet tall on stage WORKSHOP
This workshop on stage presence will cover how to be authentically you and the center of attention. Finding ways to confidently project, pose and peel, slowing down and having fun. Learn the secrets of how the 5 feet tall Daring Darling tricks her audience into thinking she is 10 feet tall.
TBA
Burlesque for beginners
Join international traveling showgirl Vivian Brass for this 3 hr. crash course in burlesque. Learn a brief history, classic bump and grind movement and a seductive choreography. Whether to launch into your burlesque passion or for a fun weekend outing this class is guaranteed to make you feel sexy.
TBA
STAGETTE PARTIES
Make your bachelorette party an exciting and unique experience in a 2 hour burlesque session. During this time you and your divas will explore the art of striptease, play with feather boas and learn a fun lap dance choreography to perform for your lover at your honeymoon.
**Limited Availability
$300 for group of 8 (additional $50/ extra person)
Vivian Brass'S teaching Career
Growing up Vivian Brass explored many different artforms. Learning and performing in theatre, jazz ballet, ballroom dancing, singing and playing trumpet in a marching band. Many skill which she has applied to her burlesque career since starting in early 2019. Learning from some of the best through the Vancouver Burlesque Company and Screaming Chicken Theatrical Society. She continued to enrich her knowledge of the art of seduction through the years by taking as many classes and workshops as possible and listening to the tips and tricks from seasoned performers backstage.
In 2022, Vivian taught her first class and fell in love with sharing her passion. That year she co-produce the first burlesque student showcase in Nelson BC. She has taught progressive classes where some of her students performed in the Queen City Burlesque: Vaudeville Affair. In those years of teaching Vivian has given private coaching and lessons to multiple performers and continues to teach workshops and mentor students in the West Kootenays where she resides. Vivian Brass is strongly against gatekeeping and loves watching people around her grow and thrive inside and out of burlesque.