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Professional Experience

WORKING WITH A VIBRANT MIX OF PEOPLE & PROJECTS ON A RANGE OF LOCATIONS

Miss Kitty Oaks has over a decade of experience working in professional environments. Adaptable by nature, her background spans performance, production, education, client relations, beauty & wellness.

To see who Kitty creates with, explore Collaborators...

CORPORATE

Google, Honda, Cisco, Jack Daniels, Illuminated Brewing Works, Journeyman Distilleries, Archimedes Banya, The Loop SF, Sausalito Chamber of Commerce, Entire Productions, Circosphere, Catalyst Arts, Mirrorball Agency, Odd Machine, Southwest Airlines

SHOWS

Terror Ball at the Mint (SF, CA), Revive! LA w/Vau de Vire Society & Redbird (LA, CA), The Soiled Dove at Tortona Big Top (Oakland, CA), The Edwardian Ball (SF, CA), New Bohemia at the Mint (SF, CA, #QTease at the Stud (SF, CA), Burlesque Nouveau (Oakland, CA), Hubba Hubba Revue (SF, CA),
rapeze (SF & LA, CA), Risque Riot (Oakland, CA), 
Unbridled at Untitled (Chicago, IL), House of Burlesque (Chicago, IL), Clipper Cabaret (Chicago, IL)

VENUES

The Regency Ballroom (SF, CA), Vibiana (LA, CA),
The Fox Theater (Oakland, CA), The Mint San Francisco (SF, CA), The Rio Theater (Vancouver, CAN), House of Blues (Chicago, IL), Starlight Room at the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel (SF, CA), War Memorial Opera House (SF, CA), The Globe Theatre (Los Angeles, CA), The Pyschedelic Chapel at Electric Forest (MI), Untitled (Chicago, IL), The Drifter (Chicago, IL)

PERFORMANCE COMPANIES

Vau de Vire Society (SF), Fou Fou Ha! (SF), B.A.B.E. Cooperative (SF), Jazz Nocturne (Oakland), Kinetika with Gaea Lady (Chicago/SF), Trapeze (SF), TKMB (SF), Flux Vertical Theater (SF), Hubba Hubba Revue (SF), Jabberwocky Marionettes (Chicago), The Kiss Kiss Cabaret (Chicago)

FESTIVALS

Lightning In a Bottle (CA), Electric Forest (MI), Burning Man (NV), California Burlypicks (Silver Medal),   Show Me Burlesque (MO), The Pink & White Ball (MN), Mile High Burlesque (CO), Fringe Festivals (MO, MN), Alternatease Burlesque (MA), Minneapolis Burlesque Festival (MN)

PRODUCTION

Art Support Services for Burning Man LLC (BRC, NV),

Odd Machine (Chicago, IL), The Litter Box with Miss Kitty Oaks (SF, CA), #QTease at the Stud (SF, CA), Bay Area Legends Challenge (SF, CA), Burlesque Nouveau (Oakland, CA), Burlesque Brunch (Chicago, IL), Blues & Burlesque (Chicago, IL), Cirque Des Elementes (Chicago, IL)

Teaching Experience

INTEGRATING A BROAD RANGE OF TECHNIQUES AND MODALITIES

Kitty Oaks draws heavily on decades of dance training and 10+ years of professional performance experience when developing curricula and teaching in the studio.

TRAINING

  • 20+ yrs Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, & Tap 

  • Dance Major at Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

  • Yoga Teacher Training at Moksha Yoga (Chicago, IL)

  • Fan Dance Intensive at Studio L'amour (Chicago, IL)

  • ODC Next Moves Series (San Francisco, CA)

  • Additional experience with Aerial/Acrobatics, Partner Dance & Contact Improvisation

TECHNIQUES OFFERED

  • Ballet

  • Jazz

  • Modern

  • Contemporary

  • Tap

  • Yoga

  • Burlesque

  • Heels

  • Props

  • Act Development

  • Choreography

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