Welcome to the wonderful world of Vavavavoom!
"There's darkness at the edge of town but always a warm welcome at Vavavavoom!"
In this - Vavavavoom’s 11th year - we are celebrating being one of the foremost Neo Burlesque companies in the UK, incorporating dance, music & theatre, as well as festival & corporate entertainment work. From modest beginnings in 1997, we quickly grew from a small cabaret show to a large scale theatrical troupe of performers, complete with our own Big Band of world class musicians - The Dimestore Jive Revue!
Under the guidance of creative director Stella Starr, who also performs & sings with the band, the Vavavavoom! enterprise is going from strength to strength - developing exciting new touring theatre shows for 2008 & beyond!
With Special Thanks to our wonderful choreographer & guest tutor - Fifi de Maintenon!
The Vavavavoom! Burlesque company has been at the forefront of the New Burlesque explosion since we began in 1997.
The Vavavavoom shows are produced and directed by renaissance woman extraordinaire, Stella Starr, who is one of the first of the New Burlesque performers in the UK.
Stella started out as a child star of her father's films - he being the infamous Underground British filmmaker and artist Jeff Keen. From such Bohemian beginnings, Stella went on to be a comic book artist and perform in various bands, most notably as a drummer in low-fi punky pop band SEXLOVEBUSTERBABY!
Stella has been performing in cabaret since 1994 when she was running and performing in the weekly Brighton Zap Club shows - "Andy Walker's Fame Frame" & "The Billy Silver Show". Here she started working with the inimitable Fezman Bob E. Gold and amazing choreographer Fifi de Maintenon! From an enduring love affair with Vintage Glamour, Burlesque, Pinups, Jazz & Rockabilly/Voodoo Blues, B-Movie Trash, Punk aesthetic and the Golden Age of Hollywood - so "Vavavavoom!" was born in 1997 and has been going from strength to strength ever since...
Our shows range from fantastical themed Cabaret Nights to spectacular Theatre Shows, Festival acts and so much more. Stella not only runs the show with her fabulous troupe of talented performers, but also performs herself with Burlesque acts and torch songs - all singing, all dancing, all shakin' up a storm! We were proud to be part of the first International Burlesque Festival TEASEORAMA in New Orleans in 2001! Stella Starr has been nominated for an Erotic Oscar + we have also shimmied across the stages of the Spiegeltent and many other exciting venues.
If you require entertainment for a party, club night or corporate event you may hire specific burlesque dances, cabaret acts, our big band and singers, or the whole Vavavavoom! show!
Let us arrange the party for you!
Contact Stella Starr for full details on all your event needs (corporate or private) - email: [email protected]
or tel: 07989 393891
Sit back and be dazzled with extraordinary and imaginative exotic dances, sizzling hot live tunes from our very own Big Band "The Dimestore Jive Revue and stunning meet'n'greet characters of every description!
Vavavavoom! have been delighting audiences here and overseas for the past 11 years with their saucy burlesque routines and gorgeous party nights.
"They have classy strippers and cigarette girls, all that stuff – it’s very glam!"
Vavavavoom regular, actor Joe McGann interviewed in New Woman Magazine
"Club renaissance staking a high heel through discoland."
Loaded Magazine
"This was glamour beyond my wildest dreams!" - Vavavavoom regular
Quotes for events available, please message us for more information.
Stella Starr presents a world of glamour....
Burlesque dancers.....
and live music!!
Live music from Vavavavoom! Big Band 'The Dimestore Jive Revue', with sultry chanteuse Stella Starr, Sinatra style crooner Rory Cameron & rock 'n roll singer Mark Stollar.
"A vision of old style decadence…"; "chanteuse and exotic dancer Stella Starr switches the glamour controls to maximum for a celebratory night… ..kitty girls and cigarette girls are on hand to point you to the buffet or mop your brow after you have witnessed the dancing bear, white rabbit on stilts or any of the other glitter-clad cabaret acts."
The Guardian Guide
