2020 is the year of celebrating all things Canadiana at the
Vancouver International Burlesque Festival.
Meet our Headliners, Burlesque Legend and Featured Performers for this year!
Meet Our HEADLINERS
Co-director of the Vancouver Burlesque Centre, member of Sweet Soul Burlesque and an internationally recognized, award winning performer - Lola has headlined festivals from Chicago to Stockholm, been voted into the Top 50 of Burlesque Figures 8 years running, and holds the title of 2nd runner up Miss Exotic World 2013. As a rock'n'roll flapper, Lola is best known for her intense slow burn and combining her anachronistic styles of vintage and modern, a 1920’s starlet with a kiss of Ramones grit.⠀
This beautiful bombshell of Montreal is the epitome of elegance and sensuality. The Foxy Lexxi is an International burlesque performer from Montreal. A renowned artist, she is the first Canadian to be crowned Miss Viva Las Vegas in 2018. In 2019 she was crowned Miss Starlet Hollywood and Best Burlesque Arizona.
Ever wanted to have sex in the Chrysler Building? Known as a “Tall Glass of Bad Ass”, The Lady Josephine is an award-winning burlesque performer, teacher, and entrepreneur. Her burlesque performances are unrelenting explosions of high fashion and drama... dipped in sex. She has been selected to perform at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas 3 times and voted Number one in Canada's top ten burlesque performers in 2019.
Co-director of the Vancouver Burlesque Centre, member of Sweet Soul Burlesque and an internationally recognized, award winning performer - Lola has headlined festivals from Chicago to Stockholm, been voted into the Top 50 of Burlesque Figures 8 years running, and holds the title of 2nd runner up Miss Exotic World 2013. As a rock'n'roll flapper, Lola is best known for her intense slow burn and combining her anachronistic styles of vintage and modern, a 1920’s starlet with a kiss of Ramones grit.⠀
2020 Legend
Once upon a time, a small Ontario farm girl needed a job to help pay for university...so she answered an ad, "Topless Go-Go Girls, no experience necessary" and a stripper was born!⠀ ⠀ For 17 years she traveled around the world, Alaska to New Zealand, Guam to Halifax, crisscrossing USA and Canada, performing and honing her craft, learning her trade everywhere from high-class nightclubs to small-town beer parlours and Honky Tonks as a working stripper. ⠀
But as life in the fast lane, everyone has a time to retire and so she did --Hanging up her G-string to pursue a small-town life, love of skiing and sewing.⠀ ⠀ But a chance meeting at The Burlesque Hall of Fame found herself acclaimed a Legend of Burlesque and once again found herself in a myriad of feathers and rhinestones at her very first Burlesque Festival VIBF in 2008 as The Canadian Legend of Burlesque.⠀
Since then she has headlined across Canada, USA, Finland, and New Zealand, performing, teaching, and mentoring as she travels and proudly representing Canadian Burlesque as The Grand Beaver of Canadian Burlesque!
Once upon a time, a small Ontario farm girl needed a job to help pay for university...so she answered an ad, "Topless Go-Go Girls, no experience necessary" and a stripper was born!⠀ ⠀ For 17 years she traveled around the world, Alaska to New Zealand, Guam to Halifax, crisscrossing USA and Canada, performing and honing her craft, learning her trade everywhere from high-class nightclubs to small-town beer parlours and Honky Tonks as a working stripper. ⠀
Feature Performers
Dee Twenty is Vancouver's own Gender Chaotic Chameleon and all-around Supportive Father Figure. They are one of the founding members of the Trans and GNC production company, Ghost Light Vaudeville Society, and is currently Vice President of the Screaming Chickens Theatrical Society. Daddy Dee is proud to have brought their own special blend of queer clowning, drag, and burlesque to many stages around BC and across Western Canada.⠀
The Darlings are a multidisciplinary, non-binary drag performance collective based in Vancouver, BC. Their work challenges the boundaries of conventional drag, and explores genderqueer, non-binary, and trans experience through the use of movement, poetry, performance art, theatre, and immersive/interactive installation. The Darlings are Continental Breakfast (Chris Reed), PM (Desi Rekrut), Rose Butch (Rae Takei) and Maiden China (Kendell Yan).
The Triple B With The Double D's And A High C is a curvy, campy, queer cutie with a fever for glamour and a fetish for beauty. ⠀ ⠀ A true triple threat treat, this award-winning high femme has dazzled stages from Montreal to Vancouver, from New York to L.A, and many places in between. ⠀
Dee Twenty is Vancouver's own Gender Chaotic Chameleon and all-around Supportive Father Figure. They are one of the founding members of the Trans and GNC production company, Ghost Light Vaudeville Society, and is currently Vice President of the Screaming Chickens Theatrical Society. Daddy Dee is proud to have brought their own special blend of queer clowning, drag, and burlesque to many stages around BC and across Western Canada.⠀
The Buffies
Wednesday, April 1
Friday, April 3
The Glamorama Gala
Vancouver, BC
Calgary, AB
2020 Fresh Face Feature Vancouver, BC
Vancouver BC
New Orleans, LA
Chicago, Il
Toronto, ON
Vancouver, BC
Philadelphia, PA
Edmonton, AB
Vancouver, BC
Ottawa, ON
Portland, OR
Vancouver, BC
Burnaby, BC
Sacramento, CA
Vancouver, BC
Montreal, QC
Olympia, WA
Port Moody, BC
Toronto, ON
Saturday, April 4
The Showpony Soiree
Vancouver, BC
Calgary, AB
Fresh Face Feature Montreal, QC
Vancouver, BC
Chicago, IL
Calgary, AB
Berkeley, CA
Phoenix, AZ
Vancouver, BC
Chicago, IL
Chicago, IL
Vancouver, BC
North Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Edmonton, AB
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC
Chicago, IL
Montreal, QC
Edmonton, AB