Gentry de Paris
French burlesque dancer
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Gentry de Paris is a Paris-based burlesque dancer, art director,[1] and playwright.
Gentry de Paris | |
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| Born | Hollywood, California, USA |
| Occupation | Writer/Performer |
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]
