Jo Weldon's New York School of Burlesque

True Confessions of a Pick-Up Artist! Beginning burlesque performer Fleur de Lis talks about what it takes to help burlesque performers keep track of their unmentionables. What does a pickup artist/stage kitten do? It's pretty simple. You basically show up looking cute and help out the producer, emcee, and dancers. You introduce yourself to each dancer and find out if they have any special needs for their act such as props that need to be set or special pieces to look for. After they come off the stage you pick up all of their costume elements from the stage. You may have some time to interact with the emcee but mostly you just want to make sure that the dancers don't have anything to worry about except what they do on stage. It's not a difficult job but an important one and if you do it right they will call you back. How did you come to be a pickup artist? I came to NYC a year ago this week from New Orleans. I had lost a whole lot in the storm and spent a yea...