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Burlesque show heats up Open Space A Vashon girl dances back into town The saucy soiree that is Burlesco Notturno will return to the Open Space for Arts & Community at 8 p.m. Saturday. The burlesque series, created and hosted by Open Space founder and performer Janet McAlpin, will this time boast the title “Exotica,� and McAlpin promises a show complete with peacock feathers, leopard spots and tiger stripes. Fuscshia Foxxx — dubbed a “hot pink habanero� by The Stranger — will bring bellydance and burlesque to the stage, and leggy, 6 foot 2 inches tall Syndi Deveraux, who bills herself as “the Golden Glamazon,� will also perform. Both are beloved fixtures in Seattle’s burlesque scene. Aerialist and Moisture Festival favorite Jonthan Rose will also bring his circus skills to the show, and islander Thomas Pruiksma will perform magic both from the stage at the tables of audience members. An acrobatic duo, Bohemian Acro, will also be a part of the show. Music will be provided by The Love Markets, a Seattle band that plays songs inspired by the decadent era of Weimar Berlin. The group will also play at a 9:30 p.m. dance party after the show. Michael Whitmore will also spin records at the party. Tickets to the show and dance party, $25, are on sale at Vashon Bookshop and www.brownpapertickets.com. Tickets to the dance party alone are $10.
Vashon Allied Arts long-running New Works series, which presents premiere works by local artists, will open a new season on Saturday, when island dancer Elise Ericksen brings her five-member PDX Dance Collective to a performance at the Blue Heron. Ericksen’s dance concert, called “Earth, Air, Water, Fire ‌ Dance,â€? will feature her five-person troupe backed by a group of island musicians and Will Forrester, a local artist who will paint live during the show. Seating for the audience will be in-theround, with chairs and walls moved back to give the dancers more room. “Our goal is to push the boundaries for this show,â€? said Ericksen, who grew up on the island and now lives and works in Portland. Her troupe has participated in the Dance Coalition of Oregon and regional festivals. Island musicians in the show will include Jack Barbash on piano, Gaye Detzer on viola, drummer Graham Hazzard, flutist Nancy Morgan and vocalists Jean Richstad, Jasper Forrester, Dick Paulsen and Mark Wells. Marita Ericksen, mother of Elise and a fixture in Vashon’s choral and com$PVSUFTZ 1IPUP
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Vashon Events, a new music promotion service and website, will bring the Portland duo Sidestreet Reny to Nivana at 9 p.m. Friday for a free show.
(P VQ VQ BOE BXBZ XJUI B NPWJF Deborah Anderson, who organizes a free family film series on Vashon, is inviting all islanders to a free Mother’s Day screening of the Pixar film “Up!,� scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. Sunday, at the Vashon Theatre. Printed invitations, which are necessary to gain admission to the show, are available at Vashon Bookshop and the theater’s box office. The muchloved animated film tells the story of a 78-year-old widower who floats away in his house.
The band blends blusey, funky fingerstyle and slide guitar with original songwriting, incorporating the sounds of pre-war blues, roots and folk music as well as a bit of old school rap and dance hall reggae. The group has appeared several times on Vashon, always drawing appreciative audiences. For more information about the group and other upcoming show, visit www.vashonevents.com.
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Elise Ericksen, Rachael Brown and Katelyn Kollinzas are three of a five-member troupe. munity theater scene, is the evening’s music director and vocal soloist. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Blue Heron. Tickets, $12/$15, are available at the Heron’s Nest, www.vashonalliedarts .org or by calling 463-5131.
A variety show will benefit local festival “The Mother of All Shows,� IsleWilde’s annual variety show, will be presented on Mother’s Day eve, at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Red Bicycle Bistro. This year’s lineup includes plenty of musicians, including bluesman John Browne, The Modern Front Porch Blues Band, featuring Andre Sapp and Pat Reardon, and the duo of Iris Spring and Rob Strausser. A local circus act, Duo Finelli, will headline the show, bringing circus antics, comedy and accordion music to the proceddings. Other performers include poet Janessa Wight, Steve Lipke, Einstein impersonator Patrick McManus and Seattle actor SeanJohn Walsh.
Tickets to the show are $10, with free admission for anyone 18 and younger. All proceeds from the show will go to support Islewilde, a DIY summer arts festival that has taken place on Vashon for the past 20 years. The festival is a chance for islanders to come together to create all the different aspects of a community festival, from start to finish, over the course of three weeks in August. This year’s edition will begin the weekend of Aug. 2 with mask-making workshops and culminate the weekend of Aug. 23 with a traditional lantern walk at dusk on Friday and a high-spirited pageant on Saturday.
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