Meet the jigglewatts...
Ruby Joule
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London’s 21st Century Burlesque Magazine named her, “the poised porcelain princess of tease,” and Clutter Magazine (NY) simply calls her “damn hot!” A classically trained dancer and professional actress, native Texan Ruby Joule has performed her award-winning acts all over North America from Montreal to Las Vegas to Bourbon Street. She is a founding member of the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue in Austin, Texas, and Austin Academy of Burlesque instructor. Recently crowned “Miss Tiki Oasis” 2014, Ruby won “Best Debut” and “Most Classic” at the Burlesque Hall of Fame, Las Vegas in 2012, was crowned “Texas Performer of the Year” 2011 by Hot Rods and Heels Festival, won “Best Costume” in 2009 and “Most Original” in 2007 at the Texas Burlesque Festival, and was named “2nd Runner Up” Queen of Burlesque at the New Orleans Burlesque Festival 2012 and “1st Runner Up” in 2013.
She has been featured in numerous festivals around the country and headlined at the Toronto Burlesque Festival, Alabama Burlesque Festival, Texas Burlesque Festival, Viva Dallas Burlesque, Bustout Burlesque in New Orleans, Peepshow Menagerie in L.A., and was named among the top 30 most influential figures in burlesque worldwide in 2011, 2012, and 2013 by 21stCentury Burlesque Magazine . She has appeared on the covers of Bachelor Pad Magazine, Pin Curl Magazine, Space Squid, The Austin Chronicle, Metro ANE, and in the pages of The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and Famous Monsters of Filmland in vintage inspired ads. A featured model for Timeless Trends Corsetry, Emily Clay Corsets, Dakota's Vintage, and Pony-Cha Paris, she’s “the gem you’d love to polish.” See more of her here. |
jolie goodnight
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Jolie Goodnight is a creative tour-de-force, an international jazz and rockabilly singer who is, “…steamy and seductive in a lovably old fashioned way.” (Knoxville News.) Hailing back to the days of glitz and glamour, Jolie Goodnight has dazzled audiences around the world with classic fan dances and sensational singing. Although she is hailed as “… a tender voice that could melt a stone heart,” (MOJO Magazine) Goodnight is well known for her dirty blues tunes and surprising audiences with a larger than life voice, a voice that’s been said to “drip from her mouth like sweet molasses.” She has been a member of the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue since October of 2010, after performing with Hell on Heels in San Diego from 2007 to 2009. She released her debut album "Say Goodnight Gracey" in 2011 and was Miss Tiki Oasis 2015, 2nd Runner Up Miss Viva Las Vegas 2012, and was the winner of "Best Tease" and "Audience Choice" of the Texas Burlesque Festival in 2011. Luxuriating always in a performer’s life, she is also the bandleader and singer for rockabilly band, Jolie and The Jackalopes, as well as Jolie Goodnight & Her Swing Band. She has toured nationally and internationally gracing the stages at The Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend, The Windy City Burlesque Festival, New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Southwest Burlesque Festival, Dallas Burlesque Festival, Houston Burlesque Festival and more!
Daughter of the legendary record producer Joe Gracey and singer song-writer Kimmie Rhodes, Goodnight was born in Austin, Texas into a world-wide showbiz life falling asleep in guitar cases backstage to the lullaby of the voices of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, rockabilly queens and cosmic country heroes. A classically trained actress and dancer at St. Edward’s University and The University of San Diego, she has performed in productions including “Footloose,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” and “The Way of the World.” As a pin up model she has been featured in Rockabilly Magazine, Retro Lovely, Pin Curl Magazine, Bachelor Pad, Pin Up Playing Cards, Texas Women with Texas Tattoos, and The Austin Post. Something Else Reviews describes her as “exactly the kind of voice us vocal jazz lovers hope to hear from the new generation,” simply put, she’s your beacon in the night. |
Something blue
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Something Blue started watching from the wings at the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue in 2011 as a stage manager and kitten, but couldn’t stay backstage forever. Following her first solo performance in July 2013 and graduation from the Austin Academy of Burlesque, Blue became a member of Naked Girls Reading-Austin and the Austin Burlesque Alliance. She joined the Jigglewatts as an official member in 2015, and has since she’s been on four west coast tours and a European tour including visits to France, Switzerland and Germany. As a soloist, Something Blue has performed at several burlesque festivals including Texas, Dallas, Colorado, Oregon, Mile High and Munich and has toured in New York City, Chicago and Paris. She’s something old, something new, she’s Something Blue.
Something Blue has a deep love for history, fine art, music and cinema. Blue has formal training in Jazz from Broadway Dance Center and Alvin Ailey Studios in New York City and ballet from the Florida Youth Ballet. She studied burlesque at the Austin Academy of Burlesque under the instruction of her mentor, Ruby Joule and legendary burlesque performer, Coco Lectric. She is also a classically trained Alto and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Bass Concert Hall and with the Austin Civic Chorus. In addition to dance and music, Blue studied cinema at l’Université de St. Denis in Paris and at the University of Texas in Austin. Her love of classic movies and iconic films has heavily influence her burlesque style. Whether it’s cinematic pastiche, historical tableau or an epic rock anthem, Blue’s education and interests shine through in her art. Her history on the boards has given her a love of the theatrical and grandiose which is strongly represented in her costuming and act construction. Her neo-classical style combines the nostalgic with a modern flare . “An adorable, wavy-haired brunette with cherubic cheeks” according to Jacob Mauldin of Piney Woods Live Magazine, Something Blue is more than just a pretty face. An insatiable tease, she’s “a glass of champagne with a floater of liquor; a high brow blue joke.” She’s something old, she’s something new, she’s Something Blue. |
Ruby Lamb
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Miss Ruby Lamb is part glitter-storm-cotton-candy tumbleweeds and part succubus warrior. With a background in conceptual performance art, she has been a Satan’s Cheerleader since 2001. Before joining forces with The Jigglewatts, she spent time as a dancer with Red Light Burlesque. She is a cast member of Naked Girls Reading Austin, an instructor for Austin Academy of Burlesque, and part of the Central Texas Queerlesque Community. Ruby has performed for a number of years at the Texas and San Antonio Burlesque Festivals, as well as Austin Pride. In 2017, she was a headliner for the second annual Texas Queerlesque Festival in Dallas. This naughty little lamb is an instigator of hijinks, an ambassador of fun. Ruby Lamb is soft as scarves and wicked as wool. See more of her here.
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Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Great is an international, award-winning aerialist, acrobat and boylesque dancer. Coming from a background in competitive dance and gymnastics, he is a member of the Jigglewatts, a co-producer for the Boiz of Austin, and an instructor at the Austin Academy of Burlesque. He has performed all over the US, the UK and Europe.
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Layna D'Luna
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Layna D'Luna is an international award winning performer and has been described as "the girl with the curves that'll send you over the moon!". This seductive tease from the south seas is a member of the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue and producer of Vava Doom Productions (a metal burlesque and variety show) in Austin, TX.
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Pearl Lux
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Pearl began burlesque in 2008 with The Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue. After moving to Los Angeles in 2013, she won the Gold Medal and Best Dancer awards at the Burlypicks International Burlesque and Variety competition. Pearl's style is heavily influenced by her dance background. Her routines combine kicks, splits, and spins with classic burlesque movements. After producing Speakeasy Soiree, a '20s style dinner theater show in Hollywood, California she returned to Austin where she regularly kicks up her heels again with The Jigglewatts.
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