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Barbed wire, feathers and fire: Cabaret of Curiositease Live Review
Cabaret of Curiositease was Berlin Burlesque Week’s Friday show, freaky and strange, odd and fantastical, political and dark, this cabaret was a unique addition to the week. Taking place in Toast Hawaii, a venue filled with wonderful oddities like a unicorn and...
Tease your eyes this Berlin Burlesque Week at The Cabaret of Curiositease!
With Berlin Burlesque Week fast approaching (7th-13th May), we get together with Fifi Fantôme, performer and organiser of Friday 11th’s big Cabaret of Curiositease to get an insight to what this exciting show will entail. Including burlesque, drag and circus acts, we...
11th British Shorts Film Festival starts next week!
From 11 until 17 January 2018 the 11th edition of the Lichtspielklub short film festival will be celebrated. Nearly 200 films, 7 days, 5 venues! For the first time the opening will take place at HAU Hebbel am Ufer and besides the home base Sputnik Kino, screenings and...
Yuletide vs Xmas – 11 Reasons why you’re allowed to party whatever your beliefs
Now I know that there's a lot of cynicism about Christmas. Due mainly to the massive commercialisation of the whole thing; due to the fact that not many of us are Christians anymore, as it reduces itself bit by bit to the status of a weird cult that got big in the...
Getting your Tassels to twirl – It’s Week 3 at the Burlesque Course
Over half way through my Berlin Burlesque academy experience and the girls and I were hit with our hardest challenge - nipple tassels. Now it's one thing to strip down to a bare minimum in a room full of women, it's another to successfully get your tassels to twirl....
Latent Dreams at English Theatre Berlin
IndieBerlin reviews a play from Katrine Turner titled Latent Dreams. So how would world without capitalism look like? The English Theatre Berlin is one of the city's most untapped resources for theatre and performance art. They often produce hard-hitting pieces or...
Alternative Berlin Fashion World Fit for Duty – at Arena this Sunday
After the BAFW being cancelled last minute during the Fashion Week, all the amazing and inspiring talent of Berlin's up and coming scene of independent fashion designers were left with models all dressed up and nowhere to go...but they're not going to take that sort...
Chloe Gale does Bread & Butter with dollops of jam
There's nothing more wonderful than receiving a press pass for an event you've been dying to go for. And Bread & Butter did not disappoint. The Zalando team pulled out all the stops to ensure it was the coolest and most stylish event of the Berlin calendar. I...
The Burlesque Academy opens its doors…win a Perfect Seduction Workshop
The celebrated and renowned Marlene von Steenvag, owner and director of the new school, has dedicated much of her life to the art of burlesque and strip tease. Known to the world as the Queen of German Burlesque, you'll truly be placing yourself in the best of hands...
Berlin Burlesque Week #3: Essential, quintessential burlesque and a giant penis, it’s the Full Moon Cabaret!
The wild, the whit and the full-blown madness. A night of flawless burlesque. The Full Moon Cabaret lives up to its reputation. Down a quiet alleyway off Mehringdamm and up three flights of stairs, Freudenzimmer is well hidden away, but tonight's fierce performers...
Berlin Burlesque Week in full swing! Report & Pics from BIG Tickle & Der Grüne Engel
Mondays are generally pretty shit, right? Tuesdays are hardly better. Well they certainly weren't this week with the grand opening of the Berlin Burlesque Week 2017. We sent Chloe with her quill to the Ballhaus, confident that the Big Tickle would deliver on its...