Introducing La Salonnière, our new queer-friendly variety show.
La salonnière: A woman who hosts a salon.
This is the second edition.
La Salonnière: The Dance Edition
Hosted by the fabulous Amy Neilson-Smith, a stalwart of the LGBTQ+ scene. She has hosted nights at Velvet Tongue – Kick Bar Shoreditch & the Poetry Brothel London/featured in London TIMEOUT – Hackney Empire, The Arts Bar/Theatre – West End, Vout-O-Renee’s – private members CRYPT, playing Scarlet Orb Widow.
Our incredible performers include:
- Amy Neilson Smith (spoken word/compère) will be your hostess.
- Faustina Fahrenheit (belly dancing) Originally from New York, she is now based permanently in the UK. She performs a wide range of acts from belly dancing to burlesque inspired by pop culture.
- Tove-Mari Odderdal (butoh) is a visual artist and activist from Norway. She works mainly as a creative visual artist and as an organiser for queer art, and is a driving force for queer artistic voices. She helped establish the organisation Pride Art Oslo where she sits on the board, and is involved in the various projects that result from Pride Art and the art festival "Wunderkammer".
- Emme Hayward (burlesque) is a professional multi-skilled performer - including dance, fire, aerial hoop, burlesque & more. She trained at a performing arts college for three years, where she loved every second of it. She is lucky enough to have traveled the world to places such as Ibiza, India, Marrakech, Dubai, Nigeria, Monaco and many more doing what she loves.
- Xenia Black (dance) is a Sicilian warrior lady who spent time living in the hardcore city of Rome as well as the party city that refuses to grow up, Berlin, where she had the right inspiration to create her artistic path to focus on her photography, painting and pole dance. Professional model and pole dancer for seven years, she placed at Pole Art Croatia and performed at Pole Art Bordeaux, Exotic Goddess Rome, Unleashed Amsterdam, German Fetish Ball Berlin, Fox&Badge, Klub Verboten and Torture Garden in London, where she currently lives.
- Anna Kii and Ania Psh (shibari) are London based multidisciplinary artists. Their main interests are shibari and aerial performance as well as installations and immersive experiences with the audience. They are well-represented on the kink and fetish scene in London.
We are looking forward to hosting you!
Bisous,
Queen LaLa aka Jo Webber, the producer
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
The upstairs Show Room is up a number of stairs, so is unfortunately not accessible.
Seating is available on a first come first served basis.
Optional: Proof of a negative Lateral Flow Test taken within 24 hours of the event for entry to the show.
You can prove this either via the government track and trace site or a time stamped picture on your phone.