In August of 2018 I began a project with the Montréal burlesque artist Sugar Vixen. We started a live palimpsestic engagement with Nick's print and video ads to bring new attention to this history: our history.
As an erotic dancer in this city, Sugar is part of a lineage that goes back nearly a century. Her body is a "walking palimpsest", the "harlot past" of the dancers that came before her visible in her own personal style of movement, costuming and presentation. Sugar and I also share a personal connection. She began doing burlesque after I came and spoke to her class at Dawson College about my experiences stripping and doing neoburlesque. I attended Dawson College, twenty-five years before Sugar. We are women connected to M0ntréal in multiple ways. We are alive and real and present, and also a vital part of its erotic entertainment history.
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thank you to Jeremy Hechtman
for use of The Wiggle Room and
Mark Ambrose Harris for helping with filming. Chris Benisch edited the video.
Sugar Vixen as "The Tank Girl"