Now in its 6th year, the Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret offers an inspired, curated monthly roster of thrilling music, smart comedy, amazing dance, clever storytelling, art and theater. A slice of NYC nightlife in a classic East Village venue. A night out like no other.
Making her debut at the Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret is Lola Selsky! A dynamic physical comedian, dance instructor and burlesque artist, Lola has graced the Orlando Fringe Festival, and multiple-season “dancer, entertainer, performer” in the perennial cult favorite VarieTEASE at Orlndo’s legendary The Venue. Since moving to NYC, she has worked all sides of the stage, including burlesque kitten-ing at […]
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Karen Garrett was born Karina Byakova in Kazakhstan – and born to give her gifts to the world. Studying in the Children’s Music Academy (reserved for talented youth) at Karaganda, Kazakhstan, she graduated in Studies of Violin and Piano – simultaneously. At Karaganda’s Music University, she graduated in Viola in 2014. But 2015 saw her get a special training slot […]
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TEN-FOOT RAT RECOMMENDS: Remember how great Eganam Segbefia was at the Nov. 10 Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret? His beautiful golden horn gives forth with classical baroque, jazz, moody and sweet in equal measure. Here’s an opportunity to herald the holidays with a whole concert of beautiful music featuring this gifted warm musician, with special guest, accompanying Pianist Tianyu Deng Tina. Where: […]
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Since 2013, Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret presents an inspired, curated monthly celebration of amazing dance, gorgeous music, smart comedy, clever storytelling, hot burlesque, art and theatrical vaudeville spectacle. A great show in a legendary East Village venue: A campy, classic NYC nightlife experience like no other! (Great reviews and Ticket info at bottom) Saturday Jan. 12, 10:30pm Show Features – TIPPER GORE’s TED TALK BURLESQUE The […]
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Sometimes a GREAT show takes 24 hours to recover from. Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret this past Saturday Dec. 8 was such a show! Musicians, instruments, costumes, props, comedy of all types, Mime Burlesque(!), multiple keyboards, singers, dancers, Xmas story, funk-soul rock and Broadway belting – an Insane Wonder! Let us give thanks to all who made this great beast work: Performers, in order […]
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On Saturday, Dec. 8, 10:30pm, witness one of the best bands we’ve ever heard, anywhere: SisterMonk. (Watch/Listen Here: live at Bar Nine, NYC) Led by frontwoman Kathy Deane on the African djembe drums and soaring, fiery vocals, SisterMonk creates: “slinky, undulating, wickedly danceable punk-infused funk and Middle Eastern-inspired jams. There’s no band in New York anything like them.” (New York Music Daily) Raised by Irish immigrant […]
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Since 2013, Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret presents an inspired, curated monthly celebration of amazing dance, gorgeous music, smart comedy, clever storytelling, hot burlesque, art and theatrical vaudeville spectacle. A great show in a legendary East Village venue: A campy, classic NYC nightlife experience like no other! (Great reviews and Ticket info at bottom) Saturday Dec. 8, 10:30pm Show Features – GORGEOUS MUSIC: One of the best […]
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TEN-FOOT RAT RECOMMENDS: Didja catch Jackson Sturkey at the Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret‘s big 5th Anniversary Show? Then you already know he’s a wonderful talent, a fantastically eccentric melange of demi-monde stardom: nostalgic and subversive, flirty and melancholy, bawdy and bohemian. And Jackson has his own monthly show at Under St. Marks Theater,* gathering artists with a signature Lower East Side aesthetic […]
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What a show this weekend! From the packed (sold-out!) house, roaring and laughing, to the knockout performing artists, the Nov. 2018 Ten-Foot Rat Cabaret was beyond our expectations! We had Jazz Trumpet, Blues Rock Guitar, singing, Nerdlesque Burlesque for Thanksgiving, Modern Dance, smart Comedy, fake German Scheiss, and… “David Lee Roth” rambling and wailing Sinatra! Merci Beaucoups to: Performers: David Segovia, Jess Salomon, Bill Chambers, Scarlett […]
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TEN-FOOT RAT RECOMMENDS: Take six talented dancers from various pro backgrounds – modern, jazz, tap, club, Bolly and Off-Broadway – and add three beautiful belting singers: The Sirens. Fuel it with fierce theatricality, proud sexiness, and empower it with an all-female-owned production company: That’s Guilty Pleasures Cabaret, comin’ at you with “Sexy Is,” an amazing, entertaining, and, yeah, empowering show […]
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