Gentry de Paris is a

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-based burlesque dancer, art director, and playwright.

Early life and career

She grew up near

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in Anaheim, CA. She first started first dancing with a troupe of

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s who did enactments of

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choreographies, then she went on to solo burlesque strip tease acts. Her most major influence on her style of dance is the golden age of Hollywood. She moved to Paris just after

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, where her master's thesis was on the expatriate artistic community in Paris between the World Wars. In 2009, Gentry wrote and starred in the

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musical ''Gentry de Paris Revue'' at the

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by Philippe Calvario. The ''Gentry de Paris Revue'' ran for two weeks in Paris in September 2009, and it was a

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-style theatre extravaganza and the first Grande Revue in Paris 40 years. She has performed in Scarlett James' Grande Burlesque Show in

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, the Montreal Burlesque Festival, the 8th annual

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, and in other

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throughout

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and North America. She has also performed with

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during her 2009 Kabaret tour, Arielle Dombasle for the amfAR gala in Paris, hosted by Kylie Minogue, and she has collaborated with the

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. Gentry is also the founder of L’École Supérieure de Burlesque, the first school of its kind in

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. It is a school of burlesque for women only.

References

External links

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"Gentry de Paris Brings Back the Glamour to Burlesque"

"Storming Paris’s Burlesque Stages"

"Beyond Burlesque: Dita Von Teese at the Gentry de Paris Revue"

"Si vous aimez la séduisante Dita von Teese... vous allez adorer l'élégante Gentry de Paris"

"Dita Von Teese sublime au bras de son chéri... pour une soirée sous le signe de l'effeuillage"
Living people American neo-burlesque performers People from Hollywood, Los Angeles American female dancers Dancers from California Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{Playwright-stub