2025 Features

  • Prance Dashing

  • Vanessa The Witch

  • Portia Favro

  • Tas Al-Ghul

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Prance Dashing

They're Mischief with a Mustache!

All the way from Minneapolis, Minnesota !

Prance Dashing is coming in hot! With their signature mustache and mischief, they may steal your heart and never give it back. They love to make drag because it’s political, vulnerable, larger-than-life, and accessible. You can catch them on Instagram @PranceDashing or out on a dance floor near you.

Portia Favro

Portia Favro is a classically-trained dancer, turned pin-up who has plunged into Vancouver’s rich burlesque scene.

She’s the winner/choreographer of Best Large Group 2023 at the Burlesque Hall of Fame with her troupe, the Pin-Up Posse.

Truly the traveling showgirl, Portia's performed from Berlin to New Orleans, Whitehorse, Yukon to San Diego, Montreal to Phoenix and many places in-between with no plans to stop high kicking over as much of the world as she can travel her tassels to!.

Portia is a powerhouse dance and burlesque instructor - you'll find her regularly teaching heels, floorwork, retro go-go and more in both Vancouver and beyond.

Vanessa The Witch

She is "Equal parts cats and magic"!

This Cuban mama was born on a Saturday night in Hollywood, CA. She has been performing for 20+ years in many different incarnations including singing, acting, dancing, film, & improv comedy, and has worked offstage as a choreographer, producer, stage manager, theater tech & admin.

Currently, she produces Olympia's first Improv Burlesque show Strip! at the Crypt! with Ms. Hattie Hotpants, and 1/3 of the all Latinx performance trio @papayamagiccabaret

with Dulce D’Jour & Latina K. Turner D’Ho. She also collaborates musically and otherwise with many talented performers in the PNW!

Tas Al-Ghul

Known as "The Bengal Bombshell" and "The South Asian Siren"!

With caramelized curves and mile high legs, it's no wonder they hypnotizes audiences all across the country. They are an award-winning queer South Asian performance artist and activist who is here to seduce your heart, your mind, and your wallet. She's the Bengal Bombshell and you can catch her performing regularly in Southern California with Babylon Cabaret (@babyloncabaret) at El Cid in Los Angeles and with Muse Burlesque (@museburlesque) at The Copper Door Santa Ana!

She's also the creator of Silk and Spice Arts (@silkandspicearts), the new nonprofit behind Silk and Spice Rising, a pan Asian performance arts festival that just launched in May 2024 and was a fabulously diverse and inclusive celebration of Asian performance artists of all shapes, shades, sorts, and sizes.