About the Festival

The Perth International Burlesque Festival is an annual Burlesque event held in Perth, Western Australia. The festival will feature 4 days of shows, late-night parties, markets, workshops, and other Burlesque related activities and entertainment in Perth and also will include a regional tour to Mandurah, Bunbury and Albany.

Immediately following the Australian Burlesque Festival, the Perth International Burlesque Festival brings world-class international, interstate and local Burlesque acts to the Perth audience. A rare experience for the world’s most isolated capital city, the festival affords show go-ers the opportunity to experience Burlesque performance in styles that vary greatly and fantastically across nations, scenes, and personalities, and to support and engage with the local Burlesque scene in the process.

Presented by Sugar Blue Burlesque, the Perth International Burlesque Festival aims to both celebrate the local Burlesque community and facilitate creative links with international and interstate artists. The festival is supportive of the Perth Burlesque community as a whole, and is committed to enabling useful and inspiring ways for local performers to develop, open doors, and realise their uniqueness as artistes on the international scene.

Through performance, workshops, and social networking opportunities, the festival endeavours to provide an exciting event that is of personal and professional value for both local and touring artistes.

Above all, we look forward to presenting festival-goers with 2 weeks of unforgettable days of titillating, mind-boggling, spectacular entertainment!

The Producers

A'dora Derriere

A'dora Derriere is the director of Sugar Blue Burlesque and has been performing, teaching and producing burlesque shows since 2007 after working as a costumiere and lingerie designer and production manager for 7 years. She is also the producer of the Miss Burlesque Western Australia and England competition as well as has been an associate producer for the Perth Fringeworld Festival in 2011 and 2012. Her desire to produce a burlesque festival in her home town of Perth came from experiences of performing at various burlesque festivals around the world such as Australian, London, Paris, Montreal, New York and Stockholm. She has been living in the UK for a couple of years now which has given her the inspiration to create this huge event through meeting amazing performers and producers around the world. It has been a great way to encourage international performers to come to Perth shores!

Coco Poppin

Coco Poppin is Co-producer of the Perth International Burlesque Festival with A'dora, as well as manager and core troupe member of Sugar Blue Burlesque. She has directed numerous acclaimed and sold out Burlesque shows, and coordinated events for Perth Fringeworld. Coco is also a trained Brazilian Samba performer and instructor, and her samba troupes have performed at festivals, on stage and on screen.

About Sugar Blue Burlesque

The Perth International Burlesque Festival is presented by Perth’s premier Burlesque troupe and academy, Sugar Blue Burlesque. Based in Perth, Western Australia, Sugar Blue Burlesque is both a performance troupe and a burlesque Academy, established in 2007 and is one of the leaders in the Australian Burlesque Community today. Reminiscent of the 1920's through to the 60's, Sugar Blue Burlesque presents a unique blend of classic burlesque and elaborate vintage costumes, with authentic vintage dances, circus, comedy, music and crowd pleasing theatricality! Check out 2011 Perth Fringe World showreel here: