MAY IN HALF A MINUTE

Now that we have lived one week of June, lets have a look at May in thirtyone secon...

THE SHANGRI-LA SUMMER SHOW, THE 5th EDTION

I made a poster and next week I am putting up a show - come go bananas with us, our co-performers and our students at The Shangri-La Summer Show 2019!About 1/3 of the tickets are left, get yours from our webshop via tiny.cc/SUMMERSHOW2...

AND THEN WE HAD MARCH

Not sure how it happened, but apparently the first quarter of this year has gone by already?That can only mean that It'll be Christmas again in no time!But first, lets set our minds on spring and the eventual summer! Here's what the switch from winter to spring looked like, and everything else and  in between, a second a day in March 20...

APRIL FOOLS & RUBIES KLUBIT

Entertainment-tip for this weekend:April Fools Burlesque in Pikku Hanhi in Lahti and our RubiesKlubit: Hikiklubi at Sture 21 in Helsinki tomorrow! Come join the f...

TWENTY EIGHT SECONDS OF FEBRUARY

Because March is almost over by now, let us naturally (dum di dum...) look at the month before that; one-second-a-day: February 2019These are so fun to do and I love watching other's mini videos of their mont...

THE ATELIERI O.HAAPALA BOOK

The crowd-funded Atelieri O.Haapala book is finally here and it is so beautiful I almost want to cry!The bi-lingual book -the texts are both in Finnish and English- features the studio's portraits and distinctive style of photography from the last decade (the studio/project was active 2008-2016 and...

THE SEASON(S) APPROACHING...

Let me first start this by saying that I am definitely and foremost waiting for Halloween (and now that the second week of October is about to start I consider Halloween-season here!).But.While it is as little as 80 days until Christmas (!!!),  it is only 56 until our yearly Christmas show, which...

SUMMER CELEBRATIONS: THE SHANGRI-LA SUMMER SHOW JUNE 8!

If you want more sparkle in your life, and even if you don't, but just want to have fun and be entertained, come watch our studio's Summer Show Friday June 8th at Sture 21!Coming to a show is always a win-win -  you have a great time and help put bread on the performers' tables. Plus get your daily/weekly/monhtly...

HAPPILY EVER AFTER

You recently saw a couple of the photos we took with AskoJonathan Photography for my Happily Ever After-act.Because behind-the-scenes photos always make things better here's the set up for the series.A lot can be, and is done by photoshop, but the more you can put into the set organically the better.So...

YOUR EASTER WITCH

Ok, perhaps not exactly. But suitably for a time of growth, flowers, resurrection and Easter witches Asko and I did a photoseries for my act Happily Ever After, which is something of a reversed Sleeping Beauty ghost story.Photos by Asko Rantanen / Asko Jonathan PhotographyConcept and muah by ...

BUNNIES OFF DUTY

The Helsinki Burlesque Xmas Xtravaganza event I performed at all weekend long was truly fantastic but really sucked the juice out of me as well. Here's a Lynchian moment from when the party was over last night, with some go-go bunnies off-duty chilli...

HALLOWEEN FUN, TODAY!

What to do today?Let me help you with that:Come to Sture 21 for a set of Dr. Sketchy's and then in the evening join the best, most sparkling and craziest Halloweenn party in town, when we throw our RubiesKlubit: MÖRKÖKLUBI Halloween burlesque show.Booo...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW: SUNDAY

In a time when I kind of dream I would catch the flu so I could lay in bed and just watch Netflix  with a clean consciousness (that wouldn't be able to happen even if it did happen) a weekend off is a truly amazing thing.  Being in a rather constant mode of constantly needing to perform...

UNDER THE MISTLE TEASE

I made a poster today.And I am making an event in two months:This will be the fifth edition of Under the Mistle Tease already! Crazy how time flies.More info on the event page, tickets from our Studio Shangri-La webshop.But before that it's time for our other event; the Halloween edition of Rubies Klubit:...

À BRUXELLES!

Hello there!I am on my way to Brussels to perform and it seems I am only, or well mostly, planning on wearing green things.Must be a sign that autumn is he...

THE SPECTACLE

A couple of photos from the gigantic number we created for the tenth and final Helsinki Burlesque Festival with both of our performing student troupes from our burlesque school  -We are already on our eight and sixth season with the troupes, and so far we've created ten acts for them separately,...

RUBIES STYLE / POSING FOR LUCIE

Last November when in Prague we had a chance to do a quick (in the lobby of a dance studio) and fun shoot with fabulous photographer Lucie Kout.These costumes are from our Give it Away-act that Ira-Maria Peltoniemi/Ira's Studio made for us.Lucie will most likely be coming to Finland at some point...

FOR THE 10TH AND LAST TIME

Tonight the tenth -and final- Helsinki Burlesque Festival begins!Just checked into the hotel (staying in the city to avoid the long drive home two nights in a row, plus to be able to sip some bubbly as well ;) and will head to the venue in just a bit.Today we are opening the festival with a  gigantic...

SHOWTIME!

A few photos from a show we did last week with The Ruby Knuckles Sextet.All photos by Jani Karlss...

A SELFIE AND IT'S META VERSION

Last night at the club night I co-produce -RubiesKlubit -Nancy took a photo of me and these two gold sparkling performers, Bébe and Bent, while we were indulging in the act of taking mandatory backstage selfies.I probably have a thousand of photos like these by now in my phone, smiling fab people with...