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 around the world, from Europe to Australia and across North America. She is a founding member of the Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue in Austin, Texas, and Austin Academy of Burlesque instructor. A three time award winner at the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, she was also crowned "Miss Tiki Oasis."
She has featured in and headlined numerous burlesque festivals around the world including Ibiza, Munich, Toronto, Montreal, Minneapolis, Alabama, Texas, Houston, and San Antonio. She has also headlined Ohh! La La! Cherie! In Zurich, Trés Honoré in Paris, Viva Dallas Burlesque, Bustout Burlesque in New Orleans, and Peepshow Menagerie in L.A. 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 an international award winning burlesque headliner, jazz singer, and pioneer of the Singing Striptease of the Modern Burlesque Revival. Hailing back to the days of glitz and glamour, Goodnight has dazzled audiences around the world specializing in Live Band Burlesque, Classic Fan Dances and a passion for the Singing Striptease that Music News Magazine describes as, “if she sang the phone book to you it would sound sexy.”
Although she is hailed as “... a 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.” In 2017 she starred as Texas Burlesque legend Candy Barr in "STRIP! The Musical" as well as New York burlesque legend Honey Harlow. She released her debut album "Say Goodnight Gracey" and sophomore album “First Time Again!” to much critical acclaim, and is the winner of “Audience Choice" and “Best Tease” at the Texas Burlesque Festival as well as runner up Miss Viva Las Vegas. Growing up in a showbiz family, Goodnight has shared the stage with stellar music icons as Willie Nelson, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Chris Stapleton, Sam Palladio, as well as modern and legendary icons of burlesque. She’s is a Co-Producer of the Award-Winning Jigglewatts Burlesque Revue and Producer of the Stardust Burlesque Revue in Austin, Texas as well as the creator of podcast “Made of Stardust” and front-woman for rockabilly band Jolie and The Jackalopes and swing band, Jolie Goodnight & Her Stardust Band. As your “Beacon in the Night” Jolie Goodnight has toured nationally and internationally and has performed at Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekend (BHOF weekender,) Colorado Burlesque Festival, The Windy City Burlesque Festival, New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Southwest Burlesque Festival, the Perth Fringe Festival in Australia, and more! |
Something blue
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Something Blue started watching from the wings at the Jigglewatts Burlesque 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 Jiggle-ette and member of Naked Girls Reading-Austin. In 2015, Blue officially became a Jigglewatt. She has formal training in Jazz from Broadway Dance Center and Alvin Ailey Studios in New York City. She is also a classically trained vocalist and has performed at Carnegie Hall and with the Austin Civic Chorus.
Blue demonstrates her love for something old through her sense of history and antique style. Her acts range from cinematic pastiche and historical tableau to epic rock anthems and tongue-in-cheek humor. With her refined sensibilities and deep curves, she’s the kind of girl you can take home to your mother - but don’t let your father near her! Something Blue’s history on the boards has given her a love of the theatrical and grandiose. She strives to bring something new to the stage with each performance and invites audiences into her world of elegance, fire and mystery. Whether a Kiss From a Rose in a ball gown and gloves or a trip to Ancient Greece accompanied by the blues, 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 well worded blue joke. Girls like this only come along once in a blue moon. She’s something old, she’s something new, she’s Something Blue. |
Ruby Lamb
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Ruby Lamb is part glitter-storm-cotton-candy-tumbleweeds and part succubus-warrior. She’s soft as scarves and wicked as wool, and her past is steeped in bubbles and performance art.
As a Satan’s Cheerleader, she has done good in the name of evil since 2001. She is a frolicsome creature who danced with Red Light Burlesque, Austin’s original burlesque revival troupe; engaged audiences with Naked Girls Reading Austin for six years; wiggled and teased at the Austin Pride Festival for seven years; was a headliner for the 2017 Texas Queerlesque Festival in Dallas; and was a two-time nominee for Best Burlesque Performer in the Austin Chronicle Best of Austin Poll. Lamb joined Mistress of Musicality Productions for The Purple Party, a series of burlesque tributes to Prince. In addition to cavorting on the main stage, Ruby is a seasoned producer, instructor at the Austin Academy of Burlesque, actress, model, and the first subject for Dr. Sketchy’s Austin, an alternative visual art event. One of Austin’s persistent eccentrics, this naughty gamboling sheeplet is an instigator of hijinks, an ambassador of fun with an appreciation for the sexy and the absurd! See more of her here. |
Alexander the Great
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Alexander the Great is an international, award-winning aerialist, drag artist, and burlesque dancer who has been spotted on stages across the US, the UK, and Europe. He's been featured in more than 20 drag and burlesque festivals in 6 different countries, and he holds titles of Mister Austin Pride 2022 and Mister Austin Entertainer of the Year 2023. A two-time finalist for "Austin's Best Drag Performer" by the Austin Chronicle, he stars on Season 1 of the world’s first reality TV competition for drag kings, “King of Drag”.
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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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Selma Bawdy
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Rolled in all the trappings of old Hollywood glamour, Selma Bawdy is a triple threat: a chanteuse, a classically trained dancer, and full of enough outrageous stories that she may as well be an actress. All the shapeshifting of Selma Bawdy represents classic female impersonation at its finest.
As an outrageous Femme-Cee, Selma has steered the likes of many shows including Dallas All-Con, The Boiz of Austin, Red Hots Burlesque, the International Smoky Mountain Burlesque Festival, and many others. Selma and Bobby Barnaby, the man behind the corset strings, are the creators of the Phishnets, San Francisco's all-drag chorus line, Barnaby's Babes, The F Show, Barnaby's Boys & Brunch, and have performed in 15 US States, 13 Countries, and over 40 burlesque, drag, and circus festivals worldwide. 36-24-36: the numbers don't lie, and as always, standard rates apply. |
