Moisture Festival Performer Interviews - Aerialist Sally Pepper

Just back from her European tour Ms Pepper returns once again for Moisture Festival. Sally exercises a dizzying array of vaudeville skills ranging from aerial expertise to hula hooping, tap dancing, stilt walking, tumbling, group acrobatics, and roller skating. Working for years with Seattle's famed Circus Contraption she also joined in on the singing and bottle-tootin' and has excelled at the art of costume making, a skill not to be taken lightly in the world of circus/variete. Welcome home Sally!

Hale's Palladium

March 31 @ 7:30pm, 10:30pm

April 1@ 7:30pm 

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Moisture Festival Interview - Stage Manager Murphy Stevens

"Stage Manager Olympics" is how Murphy, one of our fabulous stage managers, discribes working at Moisture Festival. Imaging setting the stage and prepping performers who are doing 8-10 minute routines in succession during a two hour variety or burlesque show. Murphy is one of the best, always maintaining a cool head under pressure. People like Murphy are what make Moisture Festival shows such crowd pleasers.  

Moisture Festival Volunteers Make The Festival Possible

A brief interview with Moisture Festival Volunteers Grace Jones and Danica Sheridan, who talk about their experience working for the Festival. Without many volunteers like Grace and Danica there would be no Moisture Festival. We are extremely lucky to have some of the best volunteers in Seattle working with us each year. Thank you volunteers!

Moisture Festival Performer Interviews - Tank Karo

Tank is a nimble performer who brings both a wicked and beautiful side of circus onto the stage. She is a dancer turned aerialist, who has travelled clear across the globe in her quest to perform just about everywhere. She began learning in Chicago with the Aloft Aerial Dance Company, and then spent 4 years living and working in Melbourne, Australia. She has earned a Bachelors in Circus Arts at NICA, the National Institute of Circus Arts, focusing on dance trapeze, foot juggling and fire burlesque. Tank has been featured internationally, at festivals and cabarets, and in selected magazines. She is currently based in Chicago, were she teaches and performs.

March 29 @ 7:30pm (Hale's Palladium)
March 30 @ 10:30pm (Hale's Palladium)
March 31 @ 7:30, 10:30pm (Georgetown Ballroom)

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Moisture Festival Performer Interviews - AJ Silver

Angelo “AJ Silver” Iodice, combines his world class trick roping with bullwhip artistry and boleadoras to create a unique high energy variety act. With his ropes, whips and bolas flying through the air he presents a dramatic spectacle that is visually stunning. A versatile and creative artist, Angelo has fused his roping with dance, aerial arts, comedy, rhythmic/skipping rope, burlesque and other performance arts, creating acts that have proven successful in circuses, theater stages, sports arenas, nightclubs, television, and private events worldwide.

March 29 @ 7:30pm (Hale's Palladium)
March 30 @ 7:30pm, 10:30pm  (Hale's Palladium)
March 31 @ 7:30pm, 10:30pm (Hales's Palladium)
April 1 @ 3:00pm (Broadway Performance Hall Matinee 3pm)

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Moisture Festival - Georgetown Ballroom Opens - It's A Three Ringed Circus

'It's a three ringed circus this week at Moisture Festival'

The Georgetown Ballroom venue opens this Friday night March 30th with an all ages show at 7:30pm. Then there are two shows on Saturday at the Georgetown Ballroom at 7:30pm and 10:30pm, and Sunday we will finish the run at the Georgetown Ballroom with an all ages variété Matinee at 3pm.

Broadway Performance Hall continues into its second week with Libertease Burlesque shows at 7:30pm and 10:30pm both Friday and Saturday night and a Sunday all ages variété show at 3pm. Hales Palladium opens the week on Wednesday night March 28th. There are nightly shows all week long at Hale's Palladium with two shows on Friday night, three shows on Saturday and two shows on Sunday including the matinees at 3pm on Saturday and Sunday.

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See below for age restriction information.

Note: For the complete schedules of a particular show click here. Schedules are subject to last minute changes. Libertease Burlesque shows at BPH require that you be 18 or older. Nearly all of the variété shows and matinees are for all ages with the exception that Late Night variété shows at Hale's Palladium on Friday and Saturday nights at 10:30pm which require that you be 18 or older. Georgetown Ballroom Late Night Saturday show at 10:30pm on March 31st requires that you be 18 or older.

Moisture Festival Week Three - 'Three Venues At Once' - Variete And Burlesque Shows Galore - Georgetown Ballroom Opens

MC Armitage Shanks -  Photo John Cornicello

Week three begins Wednesday night with continuing Variété shows at Hale's Palladium and then Friday, Saturday and Sunday we open the Georgetown Ballroom. Libertease Burlesque shows continue at Broadway Performance Hall on Friday and Saturday.  We will then have achieved the trick of having festival shows in 'three venues simultaneously'.  Yikes! If it seems like there are an ton of shows to choose from think about how we feel.

Variété shows take place at Hale's Palladium all week long starting on Wednesday night March 29th. Then we open at Georgetown Ballroom on Friday April 30th followed by two shows on Saturday evening and a Sunday April 1st 3pm matinee. There is also a 3pm Matinee variété show at Broadway Performance Hall on Sunday April 1st.


The Libertease Burlesque Shows continue into their second week at Broadway Performance Hall on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30pm and 10:30pm. Tickets are available for most shows especially for the late night 10:30pm shows in all venues, so get your tickets NOW. This week's variété and burlesque shows will feature an abundance of entirely new super talented performers who've just arrived plus many of the usual returning suspects.


Here is a taste of some of the new variété acts arriving this week: Baby Gramps, Bronkar and Cyndi, Dana Smith, Della Moustachella, Elizabeth Rose, Ropeworks by René, Rubberband Boy , Scot Nery, AJ Silver, David Deeble, Eric Schwartz, Kevin Joyce, Lelavision, Sara Felder, Tank Karo, Johnny Jetpack Propulsion, Nathan Arnold, Smerdyakov Karamazov, Clay Martin's Puppet Theater, Alex Zerbe, Quynbi,  Pinky d’Ambrosia, Tom Noddy, Sally Pepper, Daniel Forlano, Sisters, Tamara the Trapeze Lady and many more.

New burlesque performers in this week's Broadway Performance Hall shows include: Aviatrix, Inga Ingénue, Iva Handfull, J. Von Stratton, Jonathan Rose, Host Kevin Joyce and Blanche DeBris, Luminous Pariah, Midnite Martini, Polly Wood, Sinner Saint Burlesque, Top Hat Dancers, Jesse Belle-Jones, Karolina Lux, Sydni Deveraux, Tamara the Trapeze Lady, Karolina Lux, Babette La Fave and many more.

Finally, on Monday April 2nd we will have the FREE to the public special educational lecture and film event 'Silents Are Golden' at Hales Palladium featuring circus historian and legend Robert Mermin.