Ursula martinez biography
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Ursula Martinez (UK): Beyond Burlesque!
About
Beyond Burlesque! is a four-day workshop designed primarily for actors and performers with some professional stage experience. The aim is to create a short cabaret act or performance piece that can be presented in a professional cabaret / live performance context.
The workshop will draw on traditional cabaret performance languages (music, singing, dancing, drag, stripping, etc.) and explore ways in which these can be combined with contemporary notions of sexuality, provocation, popular culture and queer sensibility.
Because of her use of nudity, Ursula Martinez is often described as a “burlesque” performer. However, Ursula finds the recent resurgence of “traditional burlesque” to be creatively limiting, and thus a pure exploration of this genre in the workshop will be discouraged.
Biography
Ursula Martinez is a writer, performance artist and cult cabaret diva.
She studied French and Theatre at Lancaster University and began her performance career working with experimental theatre companies such as Forced Entertainment and The Glee Club.
In the mid 90s, she began performing solo on the London club/cabaret circuit and very quickly made a name for herself.
A few years later, Martinez comb
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Ursula Martinez
British entertainer
Ursula Martinez (born 1966) is a British theatre maker, performer and director. She grew up in South London, the daughter of an English father and Spanish mother, both teachers.
After graduating in French and Theatre at Lancaster University, she began performing cabaret turns on London's club circuit, in particular the iconic queer performance club, Duckie. After much success as a cabaret performer, Martinez went on to create theatre shows, both solo and collaborative.
Three shows in which she starred, C'Est Duckie, La Clique and La Soirée, have won Olivier awards.
Cabaret
[edit]In one of her early cabaret acts, Viva Croydon, Martinez drew on her Anglo-Spanish heritage to create 'a flamenco skit on the joys of South London multiculturalism, where Cordoba meets Cor Blimey.'[1]
Martinez followed Viva Croydon with her most famous act, Hanky Panky. Combining magic with striptease, Martinez repeatedly makes a red handkerchief vanish and re-appear from an item of clothing, which is then removed until she is naked.
Hanky Panky was described in the Daily Telegraph as 'one of the most inventive striptease routines ever devised'.[2] The act brought Martinez international notoriety after she perform