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Stella Starr
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- What I do... (Actor, director, designer, teacher etc?)
- Actor, Director, Teacher
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- Producer/Director of Vavavavoom!, Burlesque artiste, torchy singer & graphic designer.
Stella Starr is the stage name of Stella Keen - the Founder, Director and star performer of Vavavavoom! The daughter of British 60's ‘underground' iconic filmmaker and artist Jeff Keen, and painter, Muse and Screen Goddess, Jackie Keen, Stella was born in Brighton UK. She had an extraordinary bohemian ‘beatnik' upbringing, for which she is eternally grateful. From this artistic background came a love of the Magic of Cinema – from the Golden Heights of Hollywood to the Glorious Depths of B-Movies!
A former ‘child star' of her father's films, playing alongside members of Andy Warhol's infamous Factory, Stella became acquainted from an early age with film, dance and performance art, touring nationally and internationally with her father.
As well as performing since the 1970's in arts venues such as The London Filmmaker's Co-op, ICA, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Diorama etc, Stella has also curated a number of film shows and exhibitions.
She is trained in Drama and Dance (Ballet, Jazz Dance, Flamenco, Tango, Ballroom/Latin/Jive and Egyptian), and now teaches Burlesque performance and stage craft as part of her ‘Vavavavoom! School of Burlesque'.
Stella designs all the publicity and writes all the copy for Vavavavoom. She also writes for various magazines and has just written a soon to be published short History of Burlesque. In 2003, the Courthauld Institute commissioned her to write an essay as part of a special series on various ‘celebrity' viewpoints of their art collection. See: www.artandarchitecture.org.uk/stories/starr_toulouse-lautrec.html
She has also featured in photographic exhibitions on Neo Burlesque, and in two books on the subject – “New Burlesque” by Katharina Bosse and “Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind” by Michelle Baldwin.
Stella has worked as a filmmaker and animator, creating animated sequences for the BBC and pop videos, and production assistant on (and appearances in) award winning short films “The Morning After” and “Reptile Day” (see: www.nicemedialimited.com) as well as producing her own small press comic “Lone Star Comix”.
Since the age of 14, Stella has been in and out of a variety of bands, most entertainingly as drummer with lo-fi punky pop group SEXLOVEBUSTERBABY! She now sings with her fabulous Big Band ‘The Dimestore Jive Revue' as well as performing regularly within the Vavavavoom! Shows.
Back in 1991 she co-produced “Andy Walker's Fame Frame” – a weekly alternative cabaret night at the Zap Club in Brighton, which developed into “The Billy Silver Show”. During this time she met and started working with Fezman MC Bob E. Gold and dancer/choreographer Fifi de Maintenon. Even here were the seeds of the idea for “Vavavavoom!”
Stella had always had a great love for Burlesque Striptease, incorporating it into many of her acts, whether it be whipping a cigarette out of a man's mouth or slow-dancing with a live python, to name but a few! From choreographing the ‘showstopper' finales with Fifi at “The Billy Silver Show”, came the vision for “Vavavavoom!” - a theatrical show that would encompass all these influences into an ‘old style' Burlesque extravaganza with music from the 30's-50's. In 1997, “Vavavavoom!” was born and has showcased in UK and abroad, establishing an international reputation for excellence as the foremost Neo-Burlesque theatre company in the UK.
- The first thing that inspired me in theatre...
- Meeting Lindsay Kemp at an early age
- My favourite theatre something is...
- The magical moment just before you go on stage
- The thing that annoys me about our industry...
- Snobbery
- My website
- http://www.vavavavoom.org.uk
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- http://www.stellastarr.co.uk
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