Floating Kabarette

“… The risqué Floating Kabarette show at Galapagos Art Space will put an end to your weekend woes for good.” - DailyCandy

“If you want your low necklines with a highbrow gloss, head for Galapagos to catch the Floating Kabarette.”— Brooklyn Paper

“Some of New York City’s best performers.“
— The New York Times

Floating Kabarette is a unique weekly variety show featuring the very best of New York City’s cabaret, burlesque, music, circus, skill & feats, aerial/trapeze, and performance art communities. Its polished, well-produced show fills up the space with alluring narratives of society and culture. Check our events page for a detailed  description of performers for each night.

Regular Performers include:

Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies

Jenny Rocha is the artistic director and choreographer of Rocha Dance Theater.  She is also a dancer, teacher, and costume designer. Rocha Dance Theater’s current work includes The Pistol Pretty Project and The Painted Ladies Project.  As a resident artist at Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO Brooklyn Rocha Dance Theater presents “Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies”.  This performance project is a fusion of dance, physical comedy, percussion and burlesque-creating Rocha’s modern day vaudeville. A Galapagos favorite, skillful, sensual, communicative bold work.

“Fierce self-confidence … authoritative work.” Jennifer Dunning – New York Times

Madame Rosebud

Madame Rosebud is burlesque’s Eastern Muse. Her specialty: the creation of worlds in which you may comfortably be seduced. As a striptease artist, actor, dancer and storyteller, she has brought her graceful, elegant work to audiences all over the East Coast.

Freddy Malaboca

Freddy Malaboca presents his psychotherapeutic and insulting cabaret: A man with a rabbit mask and a microphone invites the audience to create a space of freedom where they can insult him and be whatever they want to be.

Ms. Tickle

Miss Tickle, crowned the “Queen of gags and gimmicks” for her sorceress-like ability to design and create gorgeous and unparalleled costumes.

The Red Hook Ramblers

The Red Hook Ramblers are a New Orleans-style hot jazz band, coming straight out of Brooklyn! They are intent on preserving the music that permanently changed the American cultural landscape in the early part of the 20th century and bringing live traditional jazz to new audiences around the world.

“Brooklyn’s excellent Red Hook Ramblers make vintage jazz that conjures a delicious speakeasy vibe: You’re just a step away from flappers, fancy shoes and illicit booze.” -Time Out New York

Suspended Cirque

Suspended Cirque’s debut show “Across the Water” played at the Galapagos Art Space this past April to a standing-room-only audience three nights running. Suspended Cirque is an exquisite group of performers who create breathtaking theatricaly-based aerial acrobatic performances. The performance takes place above, around, below, among the audience — no part of the Galapagos Art Space is left unexplored, and the audience is an integral part of the event.

“… [Suspended Cirque's] sense of fun and play, the company’s sheer exuberance is contagious.” – Lauren Wissot, TheaterOnline.com

“…there was poignant intimacy in the daredevilry.” –Leigh Witchel, Dance Writer – NY POST Ballet Review

Harvest Moon

Harvest Moon, also known as The Sultry Siren of Burlesque, began her career by founding the legendary dance troupe The Cantankerous Lollies in 1995. Miss Moon’s troupe quickly became San Francisco’s premiere showgirl act, known for their Montmartre-style cabarets, including rousing Can-Cans which would’ve made Toulouse Lautrec proud. Harvest has also performed with members of Cirque Du Soliel in the 2005 production of “The Love Show”.

Joseph Keckler

Joseph Keckler is a trained painter and opera singer, and he is an established singer, performance artist, and avant-monologist in New York City. In the past year, his multi-media extravaganzas, plays, and concerts have been presented by The New Museum, Joe’s Pub, Envoy Enterprises, La MaMa ETC, The Players Club (in conjunction with a commission from Cinema 16 and in collaboration with violinist Dan Bartfield), Ars Nova, and The Transmodern Festival, among others. Joseph has been awarded a residency at Yaddo Artist Colony to develop new work and just recorded an EP, Featured Creatures.

“Think: David Sedaris meets Diamanda Galas” -The Village Voice

Lady Scoutington

Lady Scoutington is a burlesque performer/comedienne with the wide-eyed innocence of a child and the drinking habits of a priest, bringing joy wherever she removes her clothes. Hi, How Can I Help You? her original one-woman musical, debuted in August 2010 at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was developed thanks to a grant from Brooklyn Arts Exchange and recently appeared in the New York Frigid Festival. Her work has been featured on The Howard Stern Show, CBS Radio, and The Miss America Pageant.

Empress Olga & Backdoor Bjorn

Floating Kabarette hosts Empress Olga and Backdoor Bjorn make up the principals of Theatre Reverb, a company of interdisciplinary artists from the United States and Central Europe that specializes in the creation of hybrid performance and media spectacles. The New York Press has called their unique brand of pageantry: the “pre-postmodernism of Tristan Tzara and Dada”; “fringe theatre at it’s very best”; “spontaneous, endearingly eccentric and extremely funny”; and a “strip tease /garbage fest /dance party.” When Olga and Bjorn are around you never know what will happen or who you’ll go home with and you better watch out because they can charm their way right into your heart and dance their way right into your pants.

“so funny you almost pee your pants” – Cultural Capitol

“Hilarious” – Brooklyn Exposed

“sheer ridiculosity” – Cultural Capitol

“they can simply lift an eyebrow and get laughs” – NyTheatre.com

The World Famous *BOB*

Known for her over-the-top blonde bombshell image and incredible ability to mix martinis in her cleavage, The World Famous *BOB* has captivated audiences all over the world with her unique burlesque stylings, humorous performance art, and MC skills. Believing that television is “the theatre for the poor,” *BOB* is a huge fan of the boob tube and has appeared on A&E’s The History of Cleavage as well as HBO’s Real Sex. She has graced the pages of over 50 national and international publications including The New York Times where they referred to *BOB*’s art as “poignant.”

Bastard Keith

Bastard Keith is the quadruple threat singer-host-performer-writer who can be seen providing his uniquely volatile charm to burlesque shows, saucy readings and theatrical stages around New York City. Keith started out in the renowned Sweet and Nasty Burlesque, though then he was known only as “Keith”. It was in “Blasphemy!”, the debut episode of Pinchbottom’s Subconscious, that he first performed with the honorific “Bastard”. Behaviorally and genetically correct, it stuck like a hot flannel. After perfecting his subtle blend of music, alcohol, extreme dance moves, porn and violence, he formed a double act with the great and absolutely ridiculous Naughtia Nice. Keith himself is the host of the steamy, wicked, classy Revealed Burlesque. Bastard Keith: a polysexual reprobate you can believe in.

“A variety favorite.” - Time Out New York

“The burlesque scene’s darling…he’s a delight and a wonderful host with great charisma, and could be a whole show himself.” – The Fab Marquee

“An affable fellow who, between sips of the finest rotgut whisky from Philly, even managed to get a laugh out of mentioning 9/11. No mean feat.” - New York Press

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