In addition to production, performance, and emcee positions, I also am very proud and honored to instruct, both as the Executive Director at the Rose City School of Burlesque and many other opportunities, including BurlyCon (annual national burlesque convention).
Here are some instruction and classes I offer:
Name: Offline Marketing for Your Burlesque Persona
Description: Learn how to make long-lasting connections the old fashioned way using offline methods: business card guidelines, branding yourself and creating a marketable package including branding and conceptual integrity; selling yourself to producers and the public and how to craft a look & feel that sells to people who haven’t yet met you!
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Name: Online Marketing & Tech Basics
Description: Making Marketing Manageable for Artists/Performers through effective self‐promotion using email,
website and social networks, as well as organizing your marketing & promotion efforts. Class also covers the tech basics to master to be savvy performer: sharing high-resolution photos; saving, editing & sharing MP3 files; organizing information to send to producers/festivals; and how to manage it all online.
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Name: Getting Started with Facebook Advertising
Description: Through the many changes on Facebook, many are left wondering how best to reach their audiences for promotional reach. This class starts with defining the difference between organic and paid advertising methods and further explains how Facebook Profiles and Pages work, the paid options for reaching ‘fans’ and how to curate ongoing advertising campaigns for shows, events and promotions.
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Name: A Peek into Production
Description: As performers, it's sometimes hard to understand a producer's motivation behind a request, decision, or requirement for their production. Let's roleplay! As a performer, instructor, and a producer of six monthly and regularly scheduled burlesque productions, in this discussion Zora shares some insight into the world of production, including perspective on how to position one's self as a bookable act, performer promotional opportunities to help a producer, and tips on making it easy to be booked again by helping the show's production!
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 60 minutes
Name: How to Sissy That Walk (Learning to Sashay in Stilettos)
Description: One of Zora's taglines is that she is a 'whirlwind on heels'... in the Stretch & Strut, learn how to stretch and warm up for wearing heels, ways to gracefully move while wearing them and some surprisingly not intuitive thoughts about balance and posture while wearing heels, as well as how to treat your feet with cool down exercises and stretch for podiatric pampering!
Experience Level: Those with limited dance vocabulary to trained dancers
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Title: The Business of Fun (lecture)
Description: This lecture discusses the ins and outs of running a successful artistry (burlesque/dance/musician/etc) business, specifically learning to transition from thinking of their art as purely artistic and how to make it a profitable construct without losing the fun of the art itself.
Title: Building a Burlesque Community AND Culture (Discussion)
Panel #2 Description: In growing and well-developed burlesque communities, there has been hard work and foundation building efforts to ensure that instead of a group of performers, there is a community and in addition to a community, a culture of like-minded creative individuals has been established. Attendees share their experiences, both challenging and learning, around the work to build this, and welcome discussion around how to champion this in attendees' areas with exercises in building community trust.
Here are some instruction and classes I offer:
Name: Offline Marketing for Your Burlesque Persona
Description: Learn how to make long-lasting connections the old fashioned way using offline methods: business card guidelines, branding yourself and creating a marketable package including branding and conceptual integrity; selling yourself to producers and the public and how to craft a look & feel that sells to people who haven’t yet met you!
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Name: Online Marketing & Tech Basics
Description: Making Marketing Manageable for Artists/Performers through effective self‐promotion using email,
website and social networks, as well as organizing your marketing & promotion efforts. Class also covers the tech basics to master to be savvy performer: sharing high-resolution photos; saving, editing & sharing MP3 files; organizing information to send to producers/festivals; and how to manage it all online.
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Name: Getting Started with Facebook Advertising
Description: Through the many changes on Facebook, many are left wondering how best to reach their audiences for promotional reach. This class starts with defining the difference between organic and paid advertising methods and further explains how Facebook Profiles and Pages work, the paid options for reaching ‘fans’ and how to curate ongoing advertising campaigns for shows, events and promotions.
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Name: A Peek into Production
Description: As performers, it's sometimes hard to understand a producer's motivation behind a request, decision, or requirement for their production. Let's roleplay! As a performer, instructor, and a producer of six monthly and regularly scheduled burlesque productions, in this discussion Zora shares some insight into the world of production, including perspective on how to position one's self as a bookable act, performer promotional opportunities to help a producer, and tips on making it easy to be booked again by helping the show's production!
Experience Level: Everyone
Time Slot: 60 minutes
Name: How to Sissy That Walk (Learning to Sashay in Stilettos)
Description: One of Zora's taglines is that she is a 'whirlwind on heels'... in the Stretch & Strut, learn how to stretch and warm up for wearing heels, ways to gracefully move while wearing them and some surprisingly not intuitive thoughts about balance and posture while wearing heels, as well as how to treat your feet with cool down exercises and stretch for podiatric pampering!
Experience Level: Those with limited dance vocabulary to trained dancers
Time Slot: 90 minutes
Title: The Business of Fun (lecture)
Description: This lecture discusses the ins and outs of running a successful artistry (burlesque/dance/musician/etc) business, specifically learning to transition from thinking of their art as purely artistic and how to make it a profitable construct without losing the fun of the art itself.
Title: Building a Burlesque Community AND Culture (Discussion)
Panel #2 Description: In growing and well-developed burlesque communities, there has been hard work and foundation building efforts to ensure that instead of a group of performers, there is a community and in addition to a community, a culture of like-minded creative individuals has been established. Attendees share their experiences, both challenging and learning, around the work to build this, and welcome discussion around how to champion this in attendees' areas with exercises in building community trust.