Welcome to Team Burlesque - a network of Montreal-based burlesque performers!

This site highlights the appearances, performances and productions of a select group of Montreal-based burlesque performers - including Team Burlesque founding members L. Diablo, Miss Sugarpuss and Seska Lee.

Many of us work as independents while others belong to specific troupes. What we have in common is a desire to make Montreal's burlesque scene a vibrant and diverse one.

We also would like to encourage other Montreal performers and troupes so you will see their events and activities listed in our News section. Our offfical Team Burlesque events as well as those events in which Team Burlesque members are participating can be found both in the News section and in the Events section.

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News

July 23rd, 2008

Team Burlesque to Perform at Shazamfest

Team Burlesque will be heading to the great outdoors for Shazamfest - a festival of music and culture in beautiful Way's Mill's Quebec. Miss Sugarpuss, L Diablo and Seska Lee will take to the stage Saturday August 2nd at 12:30am (technically Sunday).

July 11th, 2008

L Diablo Performs Tonight at the Toronto Burlesque Festival

L Diablo will be performing tonight at the Opening Gala of the Toronto Burlesque Festival.

Friday July 11th, 2008
Doors at 9pm / Show at 9:30pm
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen st. West
$30

June 30th, 2008

Team Burlesque Co-Founder L Diablo to Perform at Toronto Burlesque Festival

L Diablo will be performing at the Opening Gala of the Toronto Burlesque Festival.

Friday July 11th, 2008
Doors at 9pm / Show at 9:30pm
The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom
1214 Queen st. West
$30

June 22nd, 2008

Team Burlesque Performed at the Montreal Fringe Festival's 13th Hour

Team Burlesque members Miss Sugarpuss and Seska Lee opened the 13th Hour's Zombie party with a variation of a number Seska Lee perfomed at the Spookyspooktacular in October 2007. The organizers of the Montreal Fringe captured it on video.

June 19th, 2008

Team Burlesque Mentioned in the Montreal Gazette

Riding the burlesque wave
Art form is 'massive globally' and at local fest
PAT DONNELLY, The Gazette
Published: Thursday, June 19

Burlesque is back.

Not just at the Montreal Fringe Festival, which is celebrating the art form tonight at 10 at Club Coda with The Summer Games: Bingo Edition, presented by Team Burlesque, but around the world.

So says Fringe general manager Patrick Goddard. It all started to happen in the late '90s at loft parties in New York, he explained: "It spread out from there. It's absolutely massive globally. I saw tons of that kind of work at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year."

He and Fringe producer Jeremy Hechtman produced their own take, Johnny Canuck and the Last Burlesque, in 2006.

But the Fringe's first real burlesque show was Miss Sugar Puss's Burley-que Revue, in 2005, he said. That was the beginning of Team Burlesque, which has been a resident company at the Mainline Theatre, the festival's home digs, over the past year. "It's great to be able to say, 'I run a theatre where we have our own burlesque troupe in residence,' " Goddard said.

Full article here.

June 14th, 2008

Team Burlesque Co-Founder Performs in The Dragpiper at Montreal Fringe Festival

Come see Seska Lee in a special role in The Dragpiper - a play about a quest in high heels where two spirited lipstick prophets tell secrets while Celtic hearts and blaring pipes escort you down the lost highway.

photo by DannyGirl Photography

Saturday June 14th 22h30
Sunday June 15th 20h45
Tuesday June 17th 22h15
Thursday June 19th 13h30
Friday June 20th 17h30
Saturday June 21st 22h30

$9 + $2 (service fee)
$6 + $2 (service fee) for those 16 and under with ID
Venue 10 Theatre La Chapelle (3700 St-Dominque)

June 13th, 2008

Team Burlesque Friends from Boston at Montreal Fringe Festival

Team Burlesque friends Big Moves are the only produing and training organization in the USA dedicated to creating high quality multi genre dance productions featuring performers of all sizes. They will be in Montreal performing their muscial comedy Lard (like grease bu thicker).

Saturday June 14th 22h30
Sunday June 15th 20h45
Tuesday June 17th 22h15
Thursday June 19th 13h30
Friday June 20th 17h30
Saturday June 21st 22h30

$9 + $2 (service fee)
$6 + $2 (service fee) for those 16 and under with ID
Venue 10 Theatre La Chapelle (3700 St-Dominque)

June 12th, 2008

Team Burlesque Friends from Germany (via Australia) at Montreal Fringe Festival

Team Burlesque friends Die Roten Punkte will be performing at this year's Montreal Fringe Festival.

"inspired, brilliantly executed lunancy...sonic collision between Plastic Bertrand, Kraftwerk and early Ramones"
The Gazette, Montreal

"It's got a good beat and you can dance to it."""
Seska Lee

"a diapasonal cacophony rich with Germanish undertones and punkish overtones. Otto's lipstick application is unrivaled!"
Miss Sugarpuss

Friday June 13th 21h15
(Be one of the first ten people at the box office to say ‘I Am Not A Robot’ and get in for free!)
Monday June 16th 19h45
Wednesday June 18th 21h15
Thursday June 19th 16h
Friday June 20th 18h
Saturday June 21st 23h

$9 + $2 (service fee)
Venue 5 Just For Laughs (2109 St-Laurent blvd.)

June 11th, 2008

Team Burlesque Friends from Japan at Montreal Fringe Festival

Team Burlesque friends from Japan - Shoshinz (Japanese site) - will be performing at this year's Montreal Fringe Festival.

Shoshinz and Cherry Typhoon are some of the most delightful, powerful performers in Tokyo!!! They will dazzle you with their hilarious stage antics without words - but with voices, bodies, and magical souls!!! You will want to put all 3 of them in your pocket after watching their show.

Sunday June 15th 23h30 (2 for 1)
Monday June 16th 18h (volunteers)
Tuesday June 17th 21h30
Wednesday June 18th 19h45
Friday June 20th 24h
Saturday June 21st 20h30

$9 + $2 (service fee)
Venue 8 Santa Cruz (60 Rachel Ouest)