Gentry de Paris

Gentry de Paris
Born
Hollywood, California, USA
OccupationWriter/Performer

Gentry de Paris is a Paris-based burlesque dancer, art director,[1] and playwright.

Early life and career

She grew up near Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.[1] She first started first dancing with a troupe of chorus girls who did enactments of Busby Berkeley choreographies, then she went on to solo burlesque strip tease acts.[1] Her most major influence on her style of dance is the golden age of Hollywood.[1]

She moved to Paris just after graduate school, where her master's thesis was on the expatriate artistic community in Paris between the World Wars.[1]

In 2009, Gentry wrote and starred in the TV movie musical Gentry de Paris Revue at the Casino de Paris, directed by Philippe Calvario.[2] The Gentry de Paris Revue ran for two weeks in Paris in September 2009, and it was a Ziegfeld Follies-style theatre extravaganza and the first Grande Revue in Paris 40 years.[1]

She has performed in Scarlett James' Grande Burlesque Show in Montreal, the Montreal Burlesque Festival, and in other cabarets throughout Europe and North America.[1]

Gentry is also the founder of L’École Supérieure de Burlesque, the first school of its kind in France.[3] It is a school of burlesque for women only.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Gentry de Paris (19 March 2010). "Gentry de Paris Brings Back the Glamour to Burlesque". Ultra Swank (Interview). Interviewed by Christopher. Retrieved 10 January 2016.
  2. ^ "Gentry de Paris Revue (TV Movie 2009)". IMDb. 31 December 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2016.
  3. ^ "Clases de striptease 'burlesque' para amas de casa - Mundo". elmundo.es. 24 December 2010. Retrieved 11 January 2016.


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