{"id":9979,"date":"2015-12-04T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=9979"},"modified":"2015-12-04T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:28:35","slug":"behind-the-scene-with-foo-foo-la-belle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/behind-the-scene-with-foo-foo-la-belle","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scene with Foo Foo La Belle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Stephanie Gawne, founder of Cardiff Cabaret Club, reveals us how she became burlesque performer Foo Foo La Belle.<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10608\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque.jpg\" alt=\"Foo Foo La Belle Cabaret Burlesque\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque.jpg\" alt=\"Foo Foo La Belle Cabaret Burlesque\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Cabaret-Burlesque-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Photo Credit: Rob W May Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stephanie Gawne pushes the door and greets me with a bright smile.\u00a0She just came back from the gym but even in her fitness clothes she still looks graceful. Ice blue eyes and pink smiling\u00a0lips, she is all in laughs and smiles. Her pink lips and maybe the aura of confidence that emerges from her might be the two only clues of the existence of Stephanie&#8217;s alter ego, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foofoolabelle.co.uk\/home.html\">Foo Foo La Belle<\/a>. But actually this is what burlesque is all about anyway: transformation. \u00a0&#8220;I mean burlesque is kind of like it\u2019s jading something,&#8221; says Stephanie, &#8220;so you\u2019re taking something and moving it to something else, jading the idea of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10015\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10015 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Portrait-Foo-Foo-La-Belle-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Foo Foo La Belle\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Portrait-Foo-Foo-La-Belle-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Portrait-Foo-Foo-La-Belle.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10015 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Portrait-Foo-Foo-La-Belle-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Foo Foo La Belle\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Portrait-Foo-Foo-La-Belle-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Portrait-Foo-Foo-La-Belle.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/noscript> Stephanie Gawne during the day and Foo Foo La Belle burlesque performer at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When she was younger, Stephanie traveled and worked abroad a lot.\u201cSo I went to Japan, I\u00a0went in China, in Hong Kong, I worked in the Swedish national circus, I worked in a tiny little circus in\u00a0Southern Italy, &#8221; she says smiling, &#8220;I did abroad work, I worked in Portugal briefly.\u201d But running away to be part of a circus is not the only interesting aspect of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie recently co-produced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwcf.wales\/about.html\">1<sup>st<\/sup> International Welsh Cabaret <\/a>which took place at the Sherman Cymru two weeks ago.She explains that she co-produced it with other burlesque performer<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/didi.curve.9\"> DiDi Curv\u2019e<\/a>. \u201cI really wanted to do a bigger festival and \u00a0I wanted it to be like a fringe festival, &#8221; she says. The international side was important to her. \u00a0\u201cWe were really lucky to be able to get a few international performers,&#8221; she explains,&#8221;it just opens things out a little bit more and kind of connects you globally a bit with what\u2019s going on. \u201c<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10017\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10017 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Oxjam-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Oxjam-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Oxjam.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10017 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Oxjam-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Oxjam-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Oxjam.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/noscript> Foo Foo La Belle ready to perform<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked which of the countries she&#8217;s been to she preferred, she lights up and answers almost immediately: \u201cJapan, I love Japan. The Japanese were\u00a0so respectful, so kind and not really what I had expected. It was a good place to be.\u201d After becoming a fitness instructor when she was 25, she then get bored of it, put some dancing and singing acts together and moved to Turkey. \u201cI ended up staying\u00a0in Turkey and then getting involved in belly dance,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>It took until her mid-30s for Stephanie to discover Foo Foo and her love for burlesque but she\u2019d always wanted to perform since she was a little child. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t to do with fame,&#8221;she says,&#8221;it was\u00a0kind of to do with that it would be my job. I had this background of musical theatre, lots of showgirl work, lots of commercial theatre work and also belly dance. When you put all that together with the burlesque revival that was happening, I mean it just seemed like a very natural step in stone to then go on and perform as a burlesque performer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She emphasizes the importance of having a message to pass through her acts. \u201cIt\u2019s important to have a message, not just sort of dance around,&#8221; she says, &#8220;You\u2019ve got to have a reason to be there so you have to have that intellectual thought of what that act is about.\u201d She explains that two Christmases ago, she produced a show called Mother Russia right at the time when Pussy Riot was in jail.\u00a0Amazingly, few days before the shows, Pussy Riot was freed. \u201cIt made what we were doing so relevant and sort of so poignant so it worked really well, &#8221; she says with excitement in her voice.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10016\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10016\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10016 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Cardiff-Cabaret-Club-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Cardiff-Cabaret-Club-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Cardiff-Cabaret-Club.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10016\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10016 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Cardiff-Cabaret-Club-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Cardiff-Cabaret-Club-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/FooFoo-La-Belle-Cardiff-Cabaret-Club.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/noscript> Stephanie teaches burlesque and cabaret classes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you decide one day to become a burlesque artist, you will need to think carefully about your name. Stephanie explains us why she chose Foo Foo La Belle as a pseudonym. She didn\u2019t want a name that would sound too much like a drag-queen. \u201cIn the UK, a lot of people know that [Foo Foo] from bottom, vagina, as a bad word so it\u2019s just, you know, that play of words and I think it\u2019s quite funny. So it\u2019s like the beautiful Foo Foo and you can take that as you\u2019d like\u201d.\u00a0 She also insists on the fact that her name works on different levels. \u201cI think a lots of burlesque, good burlesque, is clever on different levels, &#8221; she says, &#8220;and that\u2019s what I think you want your name to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in burlesque and cabaret, Stephanie runs her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardiffcabaretclub.com\/classes.html\">classes<\/a> every week in Conway Road Methodist Church. She explains that the payback for the women\u00a0following her class is huge especially in terms of self-worth. She says: \u201cAt least, you\u2019re taking people outside their norm and you\u2019re giving them this, you know, lovely sort of subplot to their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9981\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque.jpg\" alt=\"Foo Foo La Belle - Burlesque\" width=\"2009\" height=\"1258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque.jpg 2009w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-200x125.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2009px) 100vw, 2009px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9981\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque.jpg\" alt=\"Foo Foo La Belle - Burlesque\" width=\"2009\" height=\"1258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque.jpg 2009w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-1536x962.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/Foo-Foo-La-Belle-Burlesque-200x125.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2009px) 100vw, 2009px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Gawne, founder of Cardiff Cabaret Club, reveals us how she became burlesque performer Foo Foo La Belle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":10608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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