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Wishing you a daring Christmas…

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Happy Christmas Y’all

Whilst I’m home with my family and taking a well earned break, I want to give a heart-felt Christmas KISS to each and every person who has supported me during my first year of performing. Whether that be for booking me at a night, crowning me champion of a competition, cheering me on at a gig, liking my facebook page, following me on twitter, working with me on the ongoing development of my acts (In particular Bernadette Russell and Hotcake Kitty), filming me & taking photographs live (Ryan Evans & Ed McFadden) and giving me all kinds of opportunities to develop (Lady Cheek & India Starr), supporting burlesque as an industry every time you engage with a post or buy a ticket and ultimatley support this Zebra on the long, winding path of migration…

An extra special thank you to the fabulous Rob Sayles at Designory for designing my first ever website and being a pleasure to work with while he’s at it.

For Dares, 2013 has had its ups and downs and if nothing else has been full of unexpected surprises. With 2014 poking its mischievous head around the corner, I have no idea where I’m going to end up… quite literally. Will I fly high or fall on my ass? No one knows, only one thing is for sure – no matter what, I am sure as hell going to enjoy the journey.

Daring Shimmies and Squeezes

Ursula
xx


Prizes! From India Starr at Cabaret Nouveau including a beautiful vintage style swimming costume byt ‘Kiss me Deadly’. Looking forward to donning that in Brixton baths!


Photographs from the inspirational and charming Sin Bozkurt of myself reminding you all to Rave till you die this festive season (although not necessarily outside a police station, on a busy crossroads… wish I’d had the pictures of the stunned passers by). One Zebra in Hackney.

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Dares – Seeking housemates and inspiration

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For a while now I’ve felt like there’s something missing in my life. Well, more specifically on my living room wall. This week I found it, in the form of Liza Minnelli who now has pride of place, opposite the fish tank, overseeing everything that takes place there.

Everyone knows there’s more than a little something inspirational about this lady, I don’t need to go on.

However, I’ve been creating my third act, or rather, attempting to create my third act for a long, long, long time. Exasperatingly, I have some kind of performers block… the story of the piece is not quite coming together… all suggestions welcomed.

And so, I feel like having Liza watch over me as I work is a step in the right direction, and even if it doesn’t have the intended effect, its a damn fine poster.

This last week has been superb for me. I won best newcomer 2013 for Cabaret Nouveau, have taken bookings as far away as next September and have won tickets to several shows and lots of fabulous prizes.

I am donning a set of Christmas pudding pasties courtesy of AllGirlsAreMagpies and am seeking the most awesome housemates South of the river to share my beautiful rented Victorian, garden flat in Brixton.

Details can be found on Gumtree and Spareroom at http://www.spareroom.mobi/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id=2204671.

Know anyone looking? Drop me a line,

Daring Kiss
Ursula

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“I’m bloggin’… I’m bloggin’…”

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Ursula Dares welcomes you to the Hackney Zebras ‘diary of dares’…

Checklist 2013

  • FIRST year working on the burlesque scene – CHECK!
  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 4th (well, almost 4th) festival performance, performed! – CHECK!
  • Electrocution involving flashing vaginal lips – CHECK!
  • 7 different colours of hair – CHECK!
  • Shows nationally including London, Leeds & Leicester – CHECK!
  • Kisses, tears, stress & heart-ache – DOUBLE… CHECK!
  • Exploration of personal curiosities, teased with… – CHECK-E-DE-CHECK.
  • Hen Party Teacher for ‘the Cheek of It’ School of Burlesque – YES!
  • One Giant Egg Custard – BAKED.
  • 1st place for BEST NEWCOMER at Septembers heat of Cabaret Nouveau – F**K YEH
  • Runner up for BEST NEW ACT at September’s heat of Cabaret Nouveau – CUM ON!!

Raahhh!!! It’s a blog. It’s a DARES blog. So what is going to be in it?
Hello! My names Ursula Dares and once a week I will bring you ‘diary of dares’. Blogging is a brand spanking new event for me & I’m going to see what naturally evolves or happens when a Zebra puts a pen to paper.

I can guarantee you it’ll be full of burlesque love from the bottom rung of the ladder. I’m going to share my views on my favourite performers, interview our burlesque audience members, attempt to get into the psychology & history of the performers. It will contain thoughts, ideas, stories, and reviews on shows, industry professionals & recommendations. I’ll pop in experiences of applying for work, making contacts with other professionals, back stage action and gig dates… the blog will be, simply, wherever my mind, my mood and my pen take me.

Once a week, every Wednesday, you’ll get blogging Dares.

Daring Kiss
Ursula
(AKA Zebra)

Ursula Dares feedback from India Starr’s Cabaret Nouveau, Leicester. Dares performed ‘Zebra’ to judges Betty Blue Eyes, Dolly Rose and India Starr, scoping 1st place for ‘best newcomer’ and runner up for ‘best new act’.

Big Egg Custard, baked by Ursula Dares & Edward McFadden

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