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Interview with burlesque performer Danny Daire

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Danny Daire is a new male Burlesque performer from the UK. He is a Boylesque performer with a feminine twist. He performs all over the UK including: Basingstoke, Cambridge, Castle Donington, Dronfield, Glasgow (three times), Liverpool, London (eleven times), Manchester, Norwich (twice), Sheffield (twice). We have conducted an interview with him. What do you enjoy most about being a male Burlesque performer? I absolutely love being on stage and entertaining an audience. I find it so satisfying and it's fun to entertain people and show my own individuality as a performer. It gives me such a buzz when I am waiting backstage and to be announced onto the stage. Burlesque is an addiction and I can’t concentrate for ages after a show. But I do love to go to the audience at the end of the show, and chat with audience members, and thank them for their support. I never sleep very well after a show. My mind is far too busy for that! What are you thinking pre-show and duri...

Interview with comedian Fatlum Rexhepi

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Fatlum Rexhepi is a stand-up Comedian, actor, and human rights activist. To be more specific he is the first comic from Kosovo to perform in English. The founder of The Jewslim Show, a stand-up comedy show in Vienna and the founder of the Comic Union and Entertainment agency based in Kosovo. He lives in Vienna, Austria but originally he is from Kosovo. His comedy relies on self-jokes, race, religion, life etc. We have conducted an interview with him. As a stand-up Comedian and actor, where do you normally get your inspirations for your comedy? I get my inspirations from daily events. I grew up in a rebuilding country after the war in Kosovo, and everything you did during that time was a challenge. In a third world country, there's always enough to talk about, you just have to find the funny way of saying things. We laugh through pain, so I decided to tell my story in a funny way. I started out talking about my country but comedy is something that gives you space to...

Interview with Liv Kirby

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Australian actress, singer, dancer and model Liv Kirby was born in Queensland, Australia and recently she lives in the US. Her first experience in the arts was when she was 12 years old when she started stage and film classes at the National Theatre in the heart of Melbourne. From acting Liv then started exploring the world of dance and by the age of 15 she was dancing professionally. In 2012 Liv recieved her Diplomia of Modeling and Business of Modeling from the Model Academy and since has been involved in many photoshoots as well as had the opporunity to walk for L'Oreal. We have conducted a short interview with her. What inspires you into this world of dance before the age of 14? How did you finally choose this dance genre/specialisation?  It started as an after school thing once a week with one of my best friends, we wanted to do something and there was a little dance school everyone went to in our neighborhood so we began hip hop classes there. As soon as I star...