The Stripping Scholar

By: Fräulein Frauke
  • Summary

  • The Stripping Scholar podcast is a framework for artist and performer Felicia Bichard / Fräulein Frauke to explore themes and concepts in and around her own artistic practice as “a sexual woman on stage” within burlesque. Each episode focuses on a concept, digging into meaning, tradition, understanding and aesthetics that inform and have shaped burlesque, situating it as a vibrant artform within the canon of contemporary feminism, amidst the landscapes of performance, culture and academia.
    Fräulein Frauke
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Episodes
  • Episode 9 - Spectatorship - with Jonas Eklund
    Aug 21 2023

    Jonas Eklund holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from Stockholm University (2019).
    In his dissertation The Sensational Body, he explores the spectator’s experience of bodies on stage in Circus, Burlesque and Freak Show.

    What is the audience experience of burlesque and what is special about it?

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    44 mins
  • Episode 8 - Fetish - with Marnie Scarlet
    Aug 7 2023

    Marnie Scarlet is the Queen of Fetish cabaret! Renowned for her surreal shows, larger than life looks and self constructed latex costumes.
    Marnie Combines aspects of Cabaret with Drag and Burlesque, with fetish and performance art added into the mix.

    The fetish scene in transformation.

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    44 mins
  • Episode 7 - Scopophilia - with JP Bichard
    Jul 24 2023

    Experimental artist, burlesque producer and filmmaker whose work references: sexuality as a material, traditional storytelling and art historical aesthetics through the filters of contemporary culture.
    Works across media and has strong roots in art/technology research.

    Seeing burlesque through the camera lens.

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    43 mins

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