{"id":92697,"date":"2025-02-11T16:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=92697"},"modified":"2025-02-13T12:33:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T12:33:36","slug":"the-anti-valentines-day-burlesque-for-people-fed-up-with-cupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2025\/02\/11\/the-anti-valentines-day-burlesque-for-people-fed-up-with-cupid\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti-Valentine’s Day burlesque for people fed up with Cupid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whether you’re unlucky in love or in a relationship, Cardiff Cabaret Club are helping audiences celebrate<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

FOR many, Valentine’s Day conjures up feelings of warmth and excitement, mini-breaks and candlelit dinners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the more cynical, however, never-ending displays of heart-shaped cards or foil-wrapped chocolates, can conjure up feelings of dread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cardiff Cabaret Club is looking to cater to all those fed up with romance this Friday, with their sold-out Anti-Valentine’s Burlesque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people who aren’t in relationships, or maybe are in relationships and aren’t in love. Life\u2019s hard and let’s not pretend it’s not. We can still have a good time,\u201d said club founder Stephanie Gawne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show at the cabaret venue at Wales Millennium Centre will feature the troupe\u2019s unique burlesque mayhem and marks the first time the group will perform alongside headliners Eva Von Schippisch<\/a>, and mime performer Enrico Touch\u00e9.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s a smorgasbord. There’s something for everyone,\u201d said the burlesque performer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show goes far beyond the traditional idea of the “beautified Hollywood starlet dressed to the nines”, encompassing the wide range of acts that makes British cabaret and burlesque unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBurlesque means satire. It’s everything. There’s good, bad and indifferent and excellent. There’s so many different genres. I think what audiences love, especially British audiences, is pastiche and comedy burlesque,” said Ms Gawne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cabaret club challenges audience expectations. It has staged anti-Christmas events, and even “celebrated the resurrection of burlesque” on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is this willingness to challenge and have fun that has kept audiences returning to watch the club over its 18-year history.<\/p>\n\n\n

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