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ABOUT

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Gaea Lady is an enchantress by nature; a force that will make you feel the earth move.

Integrating a lifetime of experience, Gaea cultivates an intentional style that is all her own. She seeks to share knowledge and empower others through her performances, events, nourishment, & instruction. She manifests community everywhere she goes, by forging connections that are grounded in inspiration, mutual support, & self-transformation.

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Ranked internationally in the top 50 of the “most influential burlesque artists” for the past 2 years,

Gaea has performed all over the globe: notably at the Burlesque Hall of Fame 2016 where she won “Best Debut” and “Most Classic”; at the 2017 & 2018 “Icons & Allstars” show; in the “Movers, Shakers, and Innovators” Showcase with the Vertical Sideshow in 2017; and in competition for the Queen of Burlesque in 2019. Gaea headlined Carnivale de Sensuale in Denver, Spellbound Burlesque in Phoenix, Indianapolis’s Private Exhibition, Dallas’s Texas Star Burlesque, & shows in Rome, Torino, & Treviso, Italy.  She graces festival stages with feature performances & instruction: including Show Me (St. Louis), Minneapolis Burlesque Festival, Envision (Costa Rica), Electric Forest (Michigan), BurlyCon (Seattle), Symbiosis (California), Oregon Eclipse (Oregon), Burningman (Nevada), and Bhakti Fest (California). In her home base of Chicago, Gaea performs regularly all over her home city of Chicago: Unbridled at Untitled, the Vertical Sideshow, the Drifter, the House of Blues, Raks Geek, the Darling, Alhambra Palace, and more.  

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Gaea brings the electric passion of her performances to her teaching,

which she has been practicing in all forms of dance since the age of 16. She aims to inspire students to express their innate magic through embodiment, presence, and technique. Traveling across the world, she has taught at BurlyCon, the New York School of Burlesque, New Orleans School of Burlesque, Studio L’amour, Minneapolis Burlesque Festival, Detroit School of Burlesque, Danyasa in Costa Rica, and in Denver, Reno, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Italy, St. Croix USVI, the San Francisco Bay Area, Ohio, & St. Louis. Currently she is extending her teaching reach by co-producing fire dancing retreats with Kiki Mason: Ignite Your Inner Flame Retreat, Shine Your Light Retreat, and Fire Alchemy Gathering make up their trio of embodied transformational fire dancing retreats that draw performers from around the world. 

Gaea is also a vegetarian chef, and she travels the globe to teach and nourish with her kitchen witchery at movement and wellness retreats. Gaea frequently facilitates & cooks for the Temple Body Arts retreats in Costa Rica with Sofiah Thom & is a certified Temple Body Artist. 

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Deepest Thanks to:

  • My loving family — and especially my parents and grandparents for encouraging and enabling my dance for years and years and years.  And for the recognition of the burning fire that is my art, despite all our differences.

  • My besties: Alyssa Martinez, Liz Campanella, Kelly Strycker, Kate Puckett, Sofiah Thom, Bella Blue, Kelsey Kazarian, Kiki Mason.

  • My lover, supporter, collaborator : Mason Jiller

  • The Savelli clan: Diane, Juliette, Jennifer, Sarah, and Guy. Linda Adolphi & Paul. Thank you for teaching me artistry in movement in all the ways.

  • The Transcateco Collective & all those in it past, present, & future.

  • All the Econauts: Egon Scheile, Christopher Breedlove, Dietrich McGaffey, Alexander Love, Lia Allen, Tiana Hunter, Nick Prince, Matthew Weber, Hala Megahy, Felissia Cappeletti, Erin Delaney, Ben Garcia-Spitz, Kelly Berry, Queen Kiki. Audrey Herrington, Tess Collins, Bhairavi Shera, Foxie la Fleur, Jenelle Thurson, Frog, Berit Godo, Foxie LaFleur, Oliver Shao, Antonia Callas, Michelle DeSantis, Jason Miller.

  •  Amanda Davis & Meg Feigal: team pussy power & oracle visionaries.

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