Bonnie Fox, or Sharon Davis as she’s known to her friends and the swing dance
community, is an Australian-born dancer and performer now living in London. With a wealth of classic inf luences spanning genres and eras galore, Bonnie is set to take the UK scene by storm, one sparkle at a time. Retro cracks open a tinnie with the fabulous Ms Fox.
How did you get introduced to the burlesque scene in Australia? In 2006 I was at a dance festival in Sweden, and saw a burlesque performance for the f irst time. I adored it – the costumes, the playfulness, the retro vibe – but I'm a dancer, and even though the girls were beautiful, they weren't really moving their bodies. I was hooked but I wanted to do something different with it. That year I was travelling around the world and took in burlesque shows and festivals everywhere I could. I researched, read and collected vintage burlesque f ilms. And when I got home to Australia, I was excited to f ind out how I could get involved in burlesque there, and discovered none whatsoever. So A'dora Derriere and I star ted our own company – Sugar Blue Burlesque in Per th, Western Australia. We star ted with just three girls, all of us swing dancers, and over the next few years the company blossomed into a major enterprise, with a burlesque academy, large-scale shows, our own nightclub and a fulltime staff. In 2008 I left Australia and hit the road, when I star ted working internationally as a professional swing dancer. Since then I have been performing burlesque more often at jazz and dance festivals than burlesque clubs, but
this year I am settling down in London and I hope to get more involved with the burlesque community again.
What can we expect from a Bonnie Fox performance? Dancing! I'm on a mission to put dancing back into burlesque. I'm a professional dancer and I specialise in vintage dances from the 1920s to 1940s, including Charleston, Lindy Hop and Blues. My burlesque performances always have some element of dancing. Also there'll be sparkles. Lots of sparkles.
Your martini glass act is a hit online, will you be including it at the WBG 2012? Yes, it's true I have performed in a giant mar tini glass, but I don't think I'm renowned for that one, or that it's any kind of hit online, as far as I'm aware. I'd give more credit to A'dora Derriere on that one. The glass belongs to Sugar Blue Burlesque, not to me personally. I just had the honour to splash around in it a few times!
What has most inf luenced your act? The 1920s and 30s are my favourite eras, though I work a lot with 1940’s and 50’s styles
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