Finucane and Smith present Global Smash Club from October 16 -19 at the ETU Ballroom Fringe Festival Hub, presented by Melbourne Fringe as part of Pulse.
Twenty years after Finucane and Smith’s Burlesque Hour ushered in a new wild wave of burlesque, touring 18 countries, collecting 13 awards and rave reviews in nine languages along the way, the dangerous dames are back.
Moira Finucane, described as ‘Melbourne Fringe Festival’s reigning Living Legend’ and multi-award winning Queen of Provocative Variety, musters up a posse of wild women to create a club like no other including: Maude Davey (Fringe Living Legend alumni!); dark goddess of butoh Yumi Umiumare; transcendent diva Mama Alto; Las Vegas crowned Queen of Burlesque Imogen Kelly, starlet Zitao Deng, ‘ceiling-shatterer’ Piera Dennerstein, and uber virtuoso Xiao Xiao.
Glittering drop ins will also make special guest appearances throughout the season.
Global Smash Club is part club, part happening, part transcendent ritual… and all party. Dance, burlesque, live art, song, – described as ‘wild, joyous and devilishly disobedient, ‘ taking place with elevated table seating in the Legends Lounge, a dance floor, and two bars,
Living Legend Moira Finucane said: “It will be 20 years of world famous club performance squeezed into one hour of dancing, gasping, lounging, drinking, laughing and passion.
It’s going to be a wild, visceral, massive hearted 60 minutes that you will never forget.
The Burlesque Hour was never an hour and never burlesque as we know it.
Well, this one is an hour, but we are stretching time with multiple stages, multiple spaces, and some of the hottest artists I have ever had the joy of working with.”
“Twenty years ago every gatekeeper I begged to support the show told us Burlesque Hour would ever work.
“Well it never did just work, it triumphed, set the cabaret world on fire, changed lives, inspired generations of artists, travelled the world and travelled the country.
“Spawned the longest tour of variety since the gold rush. And me, I am just getting started.
“That’s not working, that’s evolving and thriving.
“And we’re still going! Expect the best of, expect the new, expect the unexpected.”
Finucane and Smith’s Global Smash Club
October 16-19
ETU Ballroom Fringe Festival Hub, Trades Hall Place, Melbourne.
melbournefringe.com.au/event/finucane-smiths-global-smash-club/