- Providing Accessibility Both On and Off the Stage: Producers and Instructors with Minda Mae
- Requesting Accessibility Both On and Off the Stage: Performers and Students with Minda Mae
- Creating Accessible Digital Performance Videos with Alexis Lucio
- The Virtual Reality: A Panel Discussion About Virtual Burlesque Shows
- Return To Stage: Captioning, Transcription and Non-Auditory Access Workshop with Sparkle Plenty and Kay Slater
- Burlesque Accessibility, Both on and Off the Stage with Minda Mae
INSTRUCTORS
Alexis Lucio is a queer latinx from Southern California currently residing on Southern Pomo and Kashaya land. She spends her workweek as the senior accessibility lead at a software development company, where she is responsible for the process development and implementation of best web accessibility (a11y) practices. In their spare time, they embrace the stage through Latin dance and drag performances. Last year, Alexis brought the a11y world to Oaklash, the Bay Area’s annual drag festival, by hosting a workshop and managing the captioning team for all digital performances. They are thrilled to continue sharing this work through the DisabiliTease Academy for 2022!
Known as The Mocha Mae West for her quick wit & sultry moves, Dahlia Kash is no wallflower!! She’s the producer of Black.Femme.Fierce, and one half of the production team at Portland’s D&D Productions, that brings you Melange: A Queer & POC Variety Show, as well as Crown Me, and Olympia’s Mischief: A Melanated Variety Show. San Francisco Bay Area born & raised, and burlesque performer since 2013, this queer fat femme is gonna rock your world!!!
Frankie Fingerling is an artist and producer based in Amiskwaciy waskahikan (“ah-miss-kwa-chee wah-skay-gun”), colonially known as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Their art helps them process lived experiences and trauma as a non-binary Chinese person living in the middle of a big wheat field. With hardy Capricorn blood coursing through their veins, Frankie rewrites the story of the unassuming potato and pushes for progress even when the climate isn’t ideal. If showing you their butt is what it takes to uproot power imbalances and create space for marginalized bodies and voices, then so be it. When they’re done with you, your pants will be so starchy, they’ll stand on their own.
Jacqueline has headlined and been featured in burlesque festivals across the world, including Vienna, Adelaide, Montreal, Minneapolis, and New York City. She has performed twice at The Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas, becoming the first performer to ever compete in a wheelchair for a title at the Tournament of Tease. Jacqueline has also taught burlesque workshops and lectured on panels about mindful movement and adaptive performance across the country. Her decades of experience include training in ballet, swing dance, bellydance, aerial arts, clowning, musical theater, and more. She is a proud member of the collaborative burlesque instruction group Essential Tease.
Learn more at www.missdisaburlytease.com and www.essentialtease.com
Minda Mae is the first wheelchair-using belly dance and burlesque performer in Minnesota. A fierce advocate for persons with different abilities, she works tirelessly to spread awareness and champions for change at every opportunity. She is the producer of the DisabiliTease Festival; the first professional festival exclusively for burlesque, circus, and drag performers with disabilities. She is also the founder of the DisabiliTease Academy, the first school specifically geared towards performers with disabilities and their allies.