"Bringing Queen City [Burlesque Festival] to life had a lot to do with wanting to apply what I had learned from being on the road. I volunteered at the Burlesque Hall of Fame for several years in a row as a tech assistant; I've volunteered at the Vancouver Burlesque Festival a few years in a row as well, and I've performed there; many of my friends are producers. It was really important to me to elevate what I was seeing, or what I wanted to bring to the table, and really offer exponential and incredible, sensational art for not only for [other burlesque performers] but obviously for the theater-goers. I want people to come to a burlesque show and realize this is art, that this is passion and it's an experience; and it's not just being at a bar and everyone being hammered and taking their clothes off; it can be that and that is its own thing, [but] that [theatre] environment is what I thrive on, that is what I love to create, to offer diversity and the talent."

Burlesque artist Déjà Louve has been thrilling audiences in British Columbia for more than 9 years.  She and Viktor Devonne talk about ancestry, languages, accent marks, and running one's own festival, The Queen City Burlesque Festival. (this conversation was recorded November 21, 2023) 

• website: https://dejalouve.com/
• https://www.instagram.com/dejalouve/
• more Déjà: https://linktr.ee/dejalouve/

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footnotes: 

- About preserving the Sinixt language; https://sinixtnation.org/content/language

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