Semi-Spoiler Alert.

If you haven’t gotten your tickets for my show tomorrow night, leave this blog now , and go take care of it. We’re definitely selling out for the show. Plus, you look cooler when you pick up tickets under your name.

Ok…you back now? Let’s proceed.

I’m incredibly excited for the show tomorrow. After visiting the venue yesterday, I am absolutely enchanted. It’s just the sort of place that feels like burlesque is at home there. Simultaneously intimate enough for us to share a secret wink yet providing enough distance for me to charm from afar. The furniture is lovely and meant to be admired. Antiques and vintage and handmade everything. The dressing rooms have space and mirrors and seating and everything! Luminarte Studios may have trouble getting Bubbles to leave ;).

But it’s not just the setting that already has me all starry-eyed for the show though it’s still 31 hours away…it’s the dances I’ll be doing and the way they felt completely right last night. To let you know I’ll be doing old and something new (in nothing borrowed and a few things blue).

Let’s go back a few days, to my magical workshop with Catherine D’Lish. I feel literally transformed from it. It wasn’t dance technique (Lucifer knows I can NOT dance in a setting of five people) or new music knowledge or information on costumes that I walked away with to cherish. I walked away remembering what it was that intrigued me about burlesque from the onset. And I’m happy to say this week has been a swirl of figuring out what it is that I need to be happy here in my art.

It is for these reasons that I will not be performing the number I originally thought I would be debuting tomorrow. I had planned on something a little more extreme. A little less bubbly. A bit more bad girl.

And completely not what I like to do when I like to do burlesque. When Ms. D’Lish asked each of us what it was that we set out to accomplish when we imagined doing our best performances, everyone’s answer was a little bit different. For some, they wanted to leave their crowd thinking. Others loved the thrill of a perfectly executed pose.

For me, I’ve realized this week, it’s very simple:

I want to look pretty. I want to have fun. I want to catch the attention of everyone. I want to be flirty. I want to just tease. I want to only share what I want to of me.

As Ms. D’Lish said in one of the MANY interviews I’ve read with her since falling head over sparkly heels this past weekend, I have a duty to entertain you. And that’s exactly what I’m going to do. I’m going to make you forget the things you don’t want to remember in the moment, and I’m going to sparkle with a smile for each and every one of you (and of course when I say everyone, I’m only talking to you… ;) ).

So for now, my bad girl (and I do have some bad girl) is going to stay in the bedroom. Because that part’s just for me and (_______).

See you tomorrow night, lovelies. I’ll be the sparkly one in your dreams.

(Now when I said spoiler, you didn’t think I was going to tell you what’s in store, did you? Darlings, this is the art of tease.)