I found Nataly D. Lovely on her modelmayhem.com site and approached her about performing at our Spring/Summer 09 fashion and Burlesque show for Lady Like.
She agreed and when I saw her in action I was glad she did!
She did a balloon number, popping the balloons off herself until she revealed an amazing corseted outfit and taunted and teased the audience to their glee and wore saucy vintage glasses, in a playful sexy librarian gone wild kind of way.
She makes for an amazing act and is a delightful person.
She also did a number with her troop, The Hot Club Cabaret, a dream girls like choreographed dance number in sequined dresses with bee hives...the crowd went wild.
As with a lot of Burlesque performers, (they make their own costumes), She makes her own detailed, ornate pasties, you can find her hand made pasties around Montreal at L'Arterie in the Mile end at 176 Bernard West.
What do you do?
Nataly D. Lovely is the founder of the Hot Club Cabaret: THE cabaret/burlesque troop in Montreal since 2006!
The Hot Club Cabaret is a unique and entertaining troop, whose cabaret dancing and singing style is combined with the comedy, satire and glamour of burlesque.
The Hot Club Cabaret presents unique, quality and sensual numbers and integrates striptease into blowing, and conceptual performances. With artists coming from various artistic backgrounds in singing, dancing, circus and theater, the Hot Club Cabaret pushes the traditional burlesque boundaries to create entirely authentic and quality acts.
What inspires you to do what you do?
“Movies inspire us a lot. Some of our best performances have been created based on movies like Ed Wood, Young Frankenstein or Indiana Jones! In addition, cartoons, like Bugs Bunny (Chuck Jones era), music from Carl Stalling, nursery rhymes, Bob Fosse, musicals, weird music and videos, comic books, history, old Playboy, and our own lives are all great source of inspiration!”
How did you get started?
Nataly D. Lovely first got inspired when she saw two burlesque troops from Toronto at La Sala Rossa. “I knew about burlesque (Quebec’s style)…but not THAT type of burlesque!! It blew my mind! What a great and different form of performing art! And I laugh so much! I thought I wanna do that too; I CAN do that! It reunited all my interests in dance, costuming, retro music, theatre, comedy and that new ingredient striptease.”
“Later at the New York Burlesque Festival, I saw this spectacular performance by the Bombshell Girls called The Mirror. The story was that of a girl in an enchanted place who, when she found herself in front of a big mirror, got bewitch by her reflection and trapped for eternity behind the mirror. This performance was so different than anything I saw in burlesque before. Most of the time, a girl with whatever costume comes on stage and strip. But The Mirror was actually telling me a story and that is what I really like about it. Since then, for me the challenge in burlesque is to introduce the nudity aspect in a plausible story.”
Most of D. Lovely ideas involved group effect and dance: so she wanted to create a burlesque troop and not be a solo artist. Also, she wanted to find girls with a certain background in dance and theater. So she started auditions but it’s through words of mouth that she found her crew.
What advice would you give to someone else trying to make their ideas a reality?
Nataly D. Lovely is the founder of the Hot Club Cabaret: THE cabaret/burlesque troop in Montreal since 2006!
The Hot Club Cabaret is a unique and entertaining troop, whose cabaret dancing and singing style is combined with the comedy, satire and glamour of burlesque.
The Hot Club Cabaret presents unique, quality and sensual numbers and integrates striptease into blowing, and conceptual performances. With artists coming from various artistic backgrounds in singing, dancing, circus and theater, the Hot Club Cabaret pushes the traditional burlesque boundaries to create entirely authentic and quality acts.
What inspires you to do what you do?
“Movies inspire us a lot. Some of our best performances have been created based on movies like Ed Wood, Young Frankenstein or Indiana Jones! In addition, cartoons, like Bugs Bunny (Chuck Jones era), music from Carl Stalling, nursery rhymes, Bob Fosse, musicals, weird music and videos, comic books, history, old Playboy, and our own lives are all great source of inspiration!”
How did you get started?
Nataly D. Lovely first got inspired when she saw two burlesque troops from Toronto at La Sala Rossa. “I knew about burlesque (Quebec’s style)…but not THAT type of burlesque!! It blew my mind! What a great and different form of performing art! And I laugh so much! I thought I wanna do that too; I CAN do that! It reunited all my interests in dance, costuming, retro music, theatre, comedy and that new ingredient striptease.”
“Later at the New York Burlesque Festival, I saw this spectacular performance by the Bombshell Girls called The Mirror. The story was that of a girl in an enchanted place who, when she found herself in front of a big mirror, got bewitch by her reflection and trapped for eternity behind the mirror. This performance was so different than anything I saw in burlesque before. Most of the time, a girl with whatever costume comes on stage and strip. But The Mirror was actually telling me a story and that is what I really like about it. Since then, for me the challenge in burlesque is to introduce the nudity aspect in a plausible story.”
Most of D. Lovely ideas involved group effect and dance: so she wanted to create a burlesque troop and not be a solo artist. Also, she wanted to find girls with a certain background in dance and theater. So she started auditions but it’s through words of mouth that she found her crew.
What advice would you give to someone else trying to make their ideas a reality?
“Life is too short to ask yourself: can I do this? Just do it and give it a try. Work hard, don’t get discouraged, don’t forget why you want to do it, have fun, be professional, be authentic!”
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