The Love Show, NYC's premier theatrical dance company, and special guests pay kick-ass homage to Liberty Belle, Zoya the Destroya, and all of the other heroes and heels of GLOW. Experience wrestling as you've never seen it before. Clotheslines and Kick lines! Suplexes and Soutenus! Boston Crabs and Bump 'n' Grind! Join us for one night only of piledriving dance, burlesque, comedy, and great, great music, as we turn back the clock to the '80s and transform LPR's stage into the squared circle of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling!
Starring:The Love Show Dancers!The Schlep Sisters!The Great Dubini!Chris Harder!Nobuya Nagahama!Anastasia René!
Thursday, August 23, 2018
7pm doors // 8pm show // 18+
Premium VIP Table Seating (first row of tables): $35 advance, $40 day of show
GA Table Seating: $25 advance, $30 day of show
Standing Room: $15 advance, $20 day of show
Tickets: http://bit.ly/theloveglow
More info: http://bit.ly/2vqhFqi
(le) poisson rouge
158 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
lpr.com
*not technically a ballet.
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The Love Show
The Love Show is a theatrical dance company that combines cabaret, ballet, contemporay, rock, comedy and theater into creative performances all over the US and beyond. The Love Show has entertained all audiences, rocking stages from The Hammerstien Ballroom to The Public's Shakespeare in The Park. The Love Show has been commissioned to perform original choreography for clients including Banksy, Veuve Clicquot, Vogue Magazine and TNT.
The Love Show's production work includes their very popular holiday show, "Nutcracker: Rated R", which ran for 7 sold out seasons in New York and also toured in Tokyo. The Love Show also has three other full length productions, "Dance Mayhem: A Grindhouse Ballet", "SEVERED: The Tragic Loves of Frankenstein's Monster" (premiered to a sold-out house at Highline Ballroom), and "Boomstick Ballet: A Rock Opera tribute to
Bruce Campbell".
The Love Show has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, PAPER Magazine, and TONY, and The New York Times sent a reporter to exclusively follow the troupe's exploits on Bastille Day. Recently, The Love Show performed at a resort in Egypt for a live and electronic music festival, premiered a cameo piece commissioned by
The Public Theater in their run of "Twelfth Night" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, danced in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, created exclusive choreographed and directed content for TNT Drama's season premiere party and performed a cabaret in Rome.
www.theloveshownyc.com
instagram.com/theloveshownyc
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THE SCHLEP SISTERS are burlesque performers of the Jewish persuasion! MINNIE TONKA and DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA are long lost sisters who found each other while tracing the roots of Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville on the Lower East Side. Inspired by Manischewitz, The Barry Sisters, and Rock n' Roll these ladies can cut a rug! The Schlep Sisters have been livin' it up on stage together and captivating audiences across North America since 2004 -- from the New York, Toronto, and Dallas Burlesque Festivals to the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas and the Key West Burlesque Holiday Extravaganza - to a month-long Australian Tour! The Schlep Sisters were both voted into the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2012 and are founding members and co-producers of Dangerous Curves Ahead: Burlesque on the Go-Go!, the USA's Premier National Touring Burlesque Troupe! These sassy sisters have so much love they schlep it all over the world!
www.schlepsisters.com
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Chris Harder--"The Raunchy Romeo of Burlesque"--is a NYC based burlesque performer, writer and adult film actor. Harder has stripped, shocked, and entertained in nightlife for the past 9 years and toured across the US and around the world with stops in L.A., San Francisco, New Orleans, Key West, London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, and Amsterdam.
Named "Best of the Naked City" by the Village Voice in 2011, Harder was awarded "Best International Male Performer" at the 2012 London World Burlesque Games and was also an American headliner for the Vienna Boylesque Festival (2015-2016), the Helsinki Burlesque Festival (2017), The World Buskers Festival (New Zealand, 2017) and a headline performer for New Orleans, Minneapolis, and Atlanta Gay Pride festivals.
Harder is also the writer and creator of the burlesque-drag-theater series, Nasty Drew and That Harder Boy as well as the writer of his one-man show, Porn to be a Star.
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Gregory Dubin, aka "The Great Dubini," has charmed audiences from the streets of New York City to the stages of Tokyo. He has performed regularly at Ripley's Believe It or Not!'s Sideshow Wonders, The Love Show, and the off-Broadway hit Sleep No More, as well as his own magic and variety show The Mystique Boutique.
www.DubiniMagic.com
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Nobuya is originally from Tokyo, Japan. He has been active as a dancer and choreographer in and around the New York area since 2006. For almost 20 years, he has trained in Hip Hop, Locking, Voguing, Popping, Breaking and House, in addition to over 10 years of experience in ballet, contemporary, and jazz. He has appeared in numerous dance showcases and TV shows including: SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE,
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, Carnival Choreographer Ball, THE MOVEMENT -A THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE, and many showcases presented by The Love Show. At the Season 5 Audition for SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE in 2008, the judges commented that they loved his amusing dancing style and funny character. He has won a rave review from The New York Times: "Nobuya is a scene stealer with his sinuous blend of popping and Voguing." He has also had the opportunity to dance with
Dave Scott in the commercial New Era. For many years he has performed the opening number at Carnival Choreographer's Ball, the biggest street dance showcase in New York, with the founders, Carey Ysais and Paulette Azizian. Additionally, in BOOM STICK, presented by The Love Show, he played the main character, Ash, and received positive praise from the audience. As an instructor, Nobuya teaches Hip Hop at Peridance Capezio Center in New York. As a choreographer, one of his students, Haruto Maeda won the Grand Champion in Apollo Theater Amateur Night with his choreography in 2015.
www.nobuyan.com
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Vocalist/Educator Anastasia René has toured with
Charles Neville (The Neville Brothers), Vince Welnick (The Tubes, Grateful Dead,
Todd Rundgren), Percy Hill, and The Assembly of Dust, as well as performing internationally with her own jazz quartet. She has worked with
Buzzy Linhart, The Zen Tricksters/Jam Stampede, Gent Treadly, Half Step, Reflections and Joe Gallant's Illuminati. She appeared with Kenwood Dennard (
Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter) & Tim Palmieri (The Breakfast, Kung Fu) at New York City's Iridium Jazz Club and with The
Gregg Allman Band at City Winery in 2016 and can often be seen performing with
Gregg Allman Band guitarist/musical director Scott Sharrard and his Brickyard Band.
She continues to work in myriad genres, recording and performing with local and regional jazz, rock, folk, R&B, reggae and funk bands and her recorded work includes Percy Hill Live, Reggae artist Taj Weeke's Love, Herb and Reggae, Baha'i artist Gwen Wahman's Certitude on Mike Longo's CAP record label, reggae artist Bigga Haitian's Sak Pase, rock band El Camino's Autobiotics, and Smooth Jazz artist Matt Marshak's This Time Around, and rocker Molly Ruth's upcoming CD amongst others.
www.facebook.com/Anastasia.Rene.Vocalist