The first annual Nerdlesque Festival, produced by the Epic Win, RAWR! and D20 Burlesque crews, is about to spread four nights of sexy-dorkdom fun throughout our fair city, with a bevy of ...

Get your geek on at the third annual NOLA Nerdlesque, an erotic celebration of all things dorky. Nerdlesque is a burlesque subgenre, notable for satirizing nerd culture, and for its body-positive ...

Like the name implies, nerdlesque — a portmanteau of “nerd” and “burlesque” — combines fandom with the art of striptease. I compare it to fanfiction because we are doing more than stripping out of a ...

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The art of burlesque is hardly anything new, but a recent trend is adding something special to the age-old performance art. With a splash of Doctor Who, or a slice of Marvel Comics, possibly even ...

Nerdlesque Festival performer Stella Chuu from Houston (Photo courtesy Richard Mayer) Avant-garde arts culture has flowed down St. Claude Avenue all the way from the Marigny to Arabi. In early ...

Whether Loretta Jean is explaining her PhD thesis or stomping on a sand-covered stage to the strains of Beyoncé’s “Run the World” while her Mad Max-inspired costume gradually falls to the floor, she’s ...

There’s a little nerd in all of us, and for burlesque performers, the NOLA Nerdlesque Festival is a place to express their inner superhero, movie monster, sci-fi villain or cartoon character.