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Annie Cherry

dance with me

About Me

bon vivant, dancer, singer, troublemaker, old soul, artisan, difficult, complicated, unpredictable, sensualist, ass kicker, name taker. you know... all that crap.

Pardon me, I blogged.

(above photos courtesy of phil peterson, alexander hogan, forrest macdonald, and your's truly, all 2006-2007.)
I teach ladies how to shake it. Also I have been known to shake it myself. And I like cake.
For burlesque classes please visit City In Motion School of Dance
For booking, information, or to be on my very exclusive mailing list, please contact me at [email protected]. Thanks a heap, Sweet Cakes!
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"What's wrong with me, ultimately and possibly tragically, is that my will to be entertained is stronger than my will to survive. That I have survived so far with this deficiency is evidence of the strength of my will to survive. Imagine, then, what I'll do to be entertained....Reputation, sanity, the respect of marriageable men--I'm always willing to risk these things." -Jo "Boobs" Weldon
"Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty." -Camus
“Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” -Frederick Douglass

My Interests

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of loveDance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of loveDance me to the children who are asking to be born Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn Dance me to the end of loveDance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love Dance me to the end of love

burlesque
digging
dancing
paleo-ethnic botany
the circus
belly dancing
dirt
greens
sideshows
magic
art
the shake and shimmy
herbs
mystery
dark chocolate
paper & ink
richness
flavor
building
tearing down
cooking
onions
roosters
psychology
energetic memory
books
skin
design
puzzles
songbirds
revolution
interior architecture
growing things
harvesting things
hot hot baths
dancing in a dark bar
pencils
lanterns
tiny boxes
animal magnetism
pheremones
legendary courtesans
geishas
pin up girls
jam
pie
ridiculous shoes
notebooks
paint
glue
subtlety
overtness
breath
making medicine
shamanism
ceremony
blackberries
juicy peaches
sandalwood
autumn leaves
the shapes of lips
the edges of things
medical terminology
singing
pool
bourbon
dreams
ettiquette
lack of propriety

I'd like to meet:

you'd better have a swagger...

"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." -C. Beaton

"Damn everything but the circus! Damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy, that won't throw its heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence..." -E. E. Cummings

Please visit POST SECRET . New secrets are posted every Sunday.

Also visit PRESENT MAGAZINE

Music:

gogol bordello
sxip shirey
devotchka
tarantella
the now time delegation
bowie
rolling stones
tom waits
nick cave
beirut
louise attaque
roscoe holcomb
eleni mandell
nina simone
slim cessna's auto club
munly and the lee lewis harlots
etta james
moto
american catastrophe
louis jordan
black sabbath
yann tiersen
billie holiday
the white stripes
woody guthrie
hank sr.
johnny cash
barbez
ella fitzgerald
dean martin
sex pistols
the runaways
woven hand
sixteen horsepower
james finch jr.

Movies:

dead man
short bus
science of sleep
down by law
brotherhood of the wolf
amelie
the women
delicatessan
fight club
hero
latcho drom
alice
idlewild
moulin rouge

Television:

carnivale
twin peaks
pbs brit com and documentaries
craig ferguson

Books:

authors:
isabelle allende
joseph campbell
pauline melville
gabrielle garcia marquez
alice walker
marion zimmer bradley
jeanette winterson
james ellroy
mother goose
david sedaris
susun s. weed
kahla wheeler
books:
wicked
the secret life of inanimate objects
seductress
she's come undone
liar's moon
the bloody chamber
grimm's fairy tales
the ventriloquist's tale

Heroes:

burlesque performers of the past, present, and future!
my mom
my dad
josephine baker
eleni mandell
mae west
susun weed
kahla wheeler
my son
rosemary gladstar
joseph campbell
single parents
teachers
artists and musicians

My Blog

Excuse me, I blogged.

http://anniecherry.wordpress.com/
Posted by Annie Cherry on Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:55:00 PST

***We’re putting the FRINGE back in FRINGE FEST!!!***

Oh, yes we are!!!Presenting Cherry's DeLuxe: A Burlesque and Variety Show !!!!THE GAME SHOW EDITION!!!!At this year's Kansas City Fringe FestivalCome see as we turn your favorite game shows upside do...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:51:00 PST

son of a beach!

Oh, Random Internet Quiz, if only I knew myself as well as you seem to know me... .. ..TR> What the Beach Test Says About You  You are a loner, and you're fine with that. You find the most ful...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 02:59:00 PST

apologies to my (real life) friends...

Hello, friends. I'd like to apologize if my behavior as of late has been off putting in any way.  I'm not even sure if it is, because I find it very hard to be objective.  There are a l...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Thu, 29 May 2008 02:41:00 PST

moth

i think it is not grace lacking in it's flight but restraint
Posted by Annie Cherry on Wed, 28 May 2008 06:03:00 PST

Are you my therapist?

Everything happens for a reason.  I don't suppose that means we have to like it all the time though... I am not okay right now.  Jenn says I should open up to someone.  So here I am... ...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Thu, 22 May 2008 10:44:00 PST

The Doctor’s Advice

Words of wisdom from the amazing Dr. Lucky (www.lukki.com)Dr. Lucky's Top 10 Tips for Budding Burlesque Babes:So you wanna be a burlesque babe? Take the following with a grain of salt; I offer these...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Thu, 15 May 2008 07:02:00 PST

Pay special attention to numbers 22, 44, 53 and 58. I dont give a damn about number 4.

A Man Should Be Able To: 1. Give advice that matters in one sentence. I got run out of a job I liked once, and while it was happening, a guy stopped me in the hall. Smart guy, but prone to saying t...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Wed, 07 May 2008 04:25:00 PST

6 reasons the Irish aren’t so lucky...

Six reasons the Irish aren’t so lucky...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:33:00 PST

heh.

It's not all glamour...
Posted by Annie Cherry on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:45:00 PST