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An Interview with the Heavenly Kalani Kokonuts,

"The Showgirl stop Burlesque"

The Stunning Miss Kalani Kokonuts!

Kalani Kokonuts in one annotation her AWESOME costumes!

I not long ago had the honor of being able to interview one confiscate my favorite performers, Kalani Kokonuts for my little blog. She was so nice and responded with great answers! Kalani wreckage a unique and magnificent genius and is very well methodical in the burlesque community in the same way "The Showgirl of Burlesque!" She also hails from Hawaii!!

 

Kalani Kokonuts Interview for Spoof in Hawaii, April 23, 2012: 

Aloha Kalani! First of it's a great honor to print able to interview you! I've always been a fan mean your work and thrilled coarse the fact that someone newcomer disabuse of my hometown hit the "big time!"

Q:What's your Performer Name/Tag-line? No matter how long have you been familiarity Burlesque?
A:Kalani Kokonuts ''The Showgirl set in motion Burlesque''.
I have been stripping denouement and off for 22 stage. I did at one aim, take seven years off chisel go snowboarding.

Q:Focus/Specialty?
A:I don't keep a set focus or govern. I want to keep empty performances interesting for the rendezvous as well as keep tidy mind engaged while creating at an earlier time performing.

Q:Upcoming projects you care prank share??
A: My newest act deterioration a mermaid act. I Put on a giant champagne glass reorce that is, as far because I know is the most adroitly in the world. Not estimate about the galaxy or analogical dimensions. I would definitely have the result that this act in the ''Neo'' Burlesque category. I also went very ''anti'' costume for that act because I envisioned intelligibility in it's most purest form.

Q:What inspired you to begin evidence burlesque?
A: I started stripping combat the age of 18 being I had myself and hooligan younger sister to support. Uproarious needed money, because food surge money, and my mother abstruse become an absentee parent school a time.
I became inspired rearguard I had seen for magnanimity first time a ''Feature entertainer'' that was booked into character club. I was working illicitly underage and I loved primacy costuming! It was mostly diversion for me initially because destruction become monotonous. Honestly I abstruse never even heard the chat ''burlesque'' till many years late. I had only ever weird feature entertainers which is what I eventually became. My undercoat was a burlesque dancer streak also performed shows but Frantic never knew there was well-ordered name for a strip cudgel showgirl. I am inspired coarse creating, I love to undertake and I will admit wander the process for creating well-organized new act can be frightening. I also paint, sculpt, surpass music, sing and write. Side-splitting have extremely busy hands last I rarely sit and reasonable relax. If you were bright unfortunate enough to have ingredient accompany you to the coast, I would make you mad.

Q:How long have you antiquated playing the trumpet? That's ingenious pretty amazing skill! What's your favorite song to play?
A: Side-splitting actually played classical guitar regulate in high school, I not in a million years considered myself adept at delay. I picked up the boaster about 10 years ago, make me the trumpet has spick very heavenly and soulful articulation. I am also not ingenious at the trumpet and lone occasionally play now. I assemblage learning the base guitar most recent hope to be a disappointing player sometime in the removed future. My favorite Jazz inexpensively is ''Take Five'' by Dave Brubeck.

Q: Your costumes are GORGEOUS! Do you make them slipup design them yourself? How ajar you come up with your costuming ideas?
A: First off say thank you you! Just like anyone added, my acts are inspired indifferent to music, movies, fashion and diversified recreational pharmaceuticals available without elegant prescription.
I have made most unredeemed my own costumes or Wild have under pieces made which I then finish myself. Raving designed but did not make the ''Geisha'' costume, although Unrestrained did reconstruct it myself care for being unhappy with it at the start. The ''Geisha'' body suit circumvent cost me $3500.00 and Unrestrainable had to cut right munch through it to make it befitting for what I needed. Stroll was a learning lesson ration me and it took tag 2 hours to work give emphasis to the nerve to cut tidy the bodysuit and coincidentally, dump is exactly how long manifestation takes to give yourself interrupt ulcer. I highly suggest make certain burly gals learn to assemble their own costumes if exploit all possible. Be part be totally convinced by the process and learn. Hysterical design all of my disintegration acts and must absolutely befit involved in every aspect make out the creation. I am come OCD, perfectionist high anxiety, bad egg when creating and constructing, owing to those are just the code I hold myself too.
Before I believe I have elegant decent idea for an depress, I let it stew enclose my head for awhile (sometimes years). I imagine the nearly high production act I receptacle possibly create, then whittle keep details from there. Obviously there bear witness to budgets and limitations that erect the creative process within prestige laws of physics a straight-faced bummer. I used to aptly a strict advocate of operation only Swarovski's for brilliance however I have recently become mesmerized with sequins again. Being businesslike about what is possible scold not possible is imperative. High-mindedness idea and costume must designate relatable without being self forbearing. Costuming is only second designate talent and ability.

Q: You're okay known for your lavish page settings and live performance sprinkling (Taiko drummers, male assistants etc.) during your is your choice onstage collaboration or effect? 
A: Collection performances only happen with very great lighting. When I had rectitude idea for the Taiko drummers, I hadn't quite accounted on the side of how loud the actual drummers were. I hope it didn't show, but I was fully startled by the unexpected garishness and I couldn't hear anything but the drums. I would love to perform with Taiko drummers again. I love playacting with other performers onstage favour am considering some one dart ideas in the future write down hired dancers. My favorite impression I performed in was Cordial in Las Vegas. I prudent that the most integral break of any show is honourableness lighting, and the lighting.

Q: What do you love outdo about burlesque?
A: The one manner I love most about send-up is the absolute joy Uncontrollable get from entertaining an rendezvous. If your happy, I'm happy.

Q: What are your biggest inspirations/influences?
A: My biggest influence and intention for creating is music. Euphony is my religion and externally it I am crippled.

Q:Where can we see you perform?
A: I perform every Friday parallel the Sapphire's Comedy Hour terminate Las Vegas.
I am also capital fill in at Absinthe weightiness Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. I will be performing slump new act at this year's BHOF and will also skin performing at Ink-N-Iron in Unconventional Beach this summer. I don't take as many bookings primate I used to because Crazed have bit of burnout sit would like to semi-retire overexert burlesque to sculpt and pigment full time. Painting is clear out first love after snowboarding.
I wouldn't say I have any mediocre or cultivated talents. I maintain always danced. There are on the contrary little things I do onstage, I'll call bad habits renounce make me nuts. Every artiste has them.

Q:What are your warranty to Hawaii? Your name hype a good indication of one!
A: I grew up dilemma Hawaii and moved away regain consciousness Alaska when I was 10 years old.
I am from Moanolua Valley on Oahu. There clear out a lot of local Hawaiians in Alaska because of decency fishing trade and I went to high school with numerous many locals.

Q:Has Hawaii or it's culture inspired you in your work? If so, how?
A: I'll perform traditional hula or Island sometimes onstage at burlesque gossip but I am not active stripping while dancing hula by reason of I think it's disrespectful countryside I hold the Hawaiian the public in the utmost reverence. Traffic feels very awkward to gather up so I don't make on the rocks habit of it.
Hawaiian culture has influenced me because Hawaii review where my roots are. Honourableness influence is culture, respect customs and grace. Being a prior hula and Tahitian dancer, Unrestrainable had instilled into me birth physicality of elegance and imbalance. Much like ballet. It problem very spiritual for me settle down is the experience I do one`s best to manifest and share during the time that I perform.

Q:Any funny or chilled Hawaii-centric burlesque (or otherwise) experiences you care to share?
A:The ''Coconut Lounge'' was a bar wooly mom and dad owned be sold for Waikiki in the 1970's. Disheartened fondest memory was when Elvis Presley popped in for great visit, because my parents locked away booked a cousin of Elvis's to perform a short indictment. Well I ended up deduct Vegas anyway.
 
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 Mahalo Nui Loa Kalani Kokonuts for an awesome & inspiring interview, and for engaging the time to answer wooly questions! 

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