Butterfly Zoo
Lavishly designed as a1930’s Shanghai jazz/cabaret club, Butterfly Zoo invites you to become Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong in ‘Shanghai Express’ or Tang Wei and Tony Leung in Ang Lee’s ‘Lust Caution’. In a city where war and revolution were unable to repress glamour, the glitz of Hollywood’s golden age draped satin arms around sultry-eyed Chinese starlets and European ladies and gentlemen crossed social and political lines. Dress to express yourself for exclusive entry to the most gorgeously dangerous and risque twisted-cabaret club of the era…
Hosted by our lounge lizard, Monsieur B Savage [who is this dashing and mysterious Master of Ceremonies?], let him whisk you away from the world outside and present to you an exotic array of dancing girls, cabaret, chinese fan dancers, burlesque opera, fire breathing aerialsits and freaks of nature. Let Lili La Scala, The VaVaVooms and the tortuous Passion of Pascal among other rare creatures astound and seduce your senses..
This sumptuous and decadent, visual and aural feast is headlined by London’s neo-burlesque, internationally infamous and critically acclaimed Empress Stah, the beautifully dark side Dita von Teese never knew she had…Your evening of indulgence will be sweetly strung together by the 5-piece French-inspired jazz quintet starring the divine Miss Tui…
A Word of Caution
Ladies, to those of you gentle women of a more delicate nature, some of the acts you will see here tonight may result in fits of fainting, hysteria and ecstasy. European ladies may be particularly predisposed to such reactions, and would be advised to retire early. Gentlemen, to our distinguished gentlemen clientele - we ask that you behave appropriately towards our exquisite female performers. Any crude or louche behaviour will result in immediate exile to the outer provinces.
Club Rules
The Butterfly Zoo requires all guests to be properly attired in fine evening wear.
No elephants, gorillas,warthogs or marsupials allowed - this Zoo is a display of exotic creatures, not of wild animals.
All guests are kindly requested to smoke cigarettes, cigars and opium pipes outside in the Bamboo Garden.
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Empress Stah
Empress Stah is an internationally renowned Trapeze Artist, Neo-Burlesque Starlet and Twisted Cabaret Performer whose work has taken her form London to New York to Tokyo, Moscow & Sydney. Stah’s work is aimed exclusively at a liberal adult audience and is at times humorous, blasphemous, pornographic, light hearted, challenging, camp, politically incorrect and above all entertaining. ‘Swinging from the Chandelier’ is Stah’s signature performance for which she received a Jerwood Circus Award in 2003.
The Songbird of Trafalgar Square, aka Lili la Scala
Lili la Scala is a swellegant, elegant vintage bombshell who thrives on her feline glamour-puss image. Like a freshly drawn pin-up she loves all things feminine. She has been entertaining and entrancing audiences with her nightingale-like tones since she was seven. Now, although she hasn't grown much in height she continues to captivate young and old alike. Her free spirit carries her around the world, where she takes opera onto the streets and also bewitches the demi-monde of cabaret and burlesque.
The Va Va Vooms
The Va Va Vooms are a sexy threesome of feathers, tights and highheels. Dancing up a fandango storm through the eras of the 20's to the 70's - burlesque with more cheeky than cheek! Choreographed by the infamous Wilhemeena Gordon and Company.
Ms Mmmmmm
Ms Mmmmmm performs "Still Hungry" ....
known by other names, and for her"out of the hat" performances, experimental films, spectacle events and vocal explorations... Ms Mmmmmm re-emerges with a transforming little number...this a taste or more mad Mmmmm to come.
"She is in fact a one-women spectacular whose imagination, so graphically on display for well over two hours, is frightening" NZ Herald
"an extraordinary vision both celebratory and profound"NZ Herald
The Fan Dancer - Xiahui Lu
The dance is about Chinese calligraphy. The movement of the dance is to represent the moving style of a brushstroke for Chinese characters, which is gentle, smooth, powerful and passionate. A Chinese traditional fan represents a writing brush. The fan creates beautiful and powerful flow and movement with dynamic traditional Chinese music.
Pascal Ackermann
Sam Wills
Sam Wills, New Zealand's foremost funny freak makes his 2008 Splore debut with more stunts, more mayhem and more stupidity than you could shake a stick at! With cucumbers, orange juice and various weapons of (not so) mass destruction, Sam is a one man recipe for disaster that will have you in stitches … no really, he may actually have you in stitches. Seriously.
With multiple awards that include ‘Best Show’ at the New Zealand Comedy Festival and the prestigious Billy T James Award, Sam is a crowd favourite with audiences at home and abroad. Quite simply, he’s a freak you could take home to your mum.
