Honey is not currently teaching or performing but feel free to watch and read about her below.
About Honey Suckle Duvet
Photo by Peter Rufo
She sauntered onto the scene in 2005 as an exotic dance student. Within weeks she was asked to teach and for two years thereafter taught classes in striptease and exotic dance.
The winner of "Most Beautiful" award at the Greater Boston Burlesque Expo in 2009, Honey travels throughout the Northeast doing dance performances and teaching, and was a featured dancer in the 2008 runaway hit "The Slutcracker" a parody of the Nutcracker.
Honey has a BS in Theatre, Dance, and Human Services – originally wanting to use performing arts to help survivors of eating disorders and sexual assault to feel safe in their bodies. Now she uses Burlesque as her vehicle to help women (and some men) of all sizes and backgrounds learn how to feel more confident and comfortable in their bodies and freer with their sexuality.
She is also an avid Doctor Who (...and Torchwood and SJA) fan and other Sci-f Television shows and is proud to let her geek flag fly.
The winner of "Most Beautiful" award at the Greater Boston Burlesque Expo in 2009, Honey travels throughout the Northeast doing dance performances and teaching, and was a featured dancer in the 2008 runaway hit "The Slutcracker" a parody of the Nutcracker.
Honey has a BS in Theatre, Dance, and Human Services – originally wanting to use performing arts to help survivors of eating disorders and sexual assault to feel safe in their bodies. Now she uses Burlesque as her vehicle to help women (and some men) of all sizes and backgrounds learn how to feel more confident and comfortable in their bodies and freer with their sexuality.
She is also an avid Doctor Who (...and Torchwood and SJA) fan and other Sci-f Television shows and is proud to let her geek flag fly.
In her own words
When I took a pole dancing class I stripped down to granny panties and a sports bra. There were two things that led me to this class. One was an episode of the Oprah show where women were learning to pole dance and it was so freeing for them, it was freeing for me just to watch. I took my first class three days after the show aired.
The other thing that led me to a pole dancing class was actually a break in. No one was home when someone broke into the basement but it triggered a massive depression. For me this took me back 20years when I survived a trauma that left me with a horrible relationship with my body and feeling it was a place of shame.
There was no one in my life that I could talk to, either I didn't feel comfortable talking to them about this or I knew they would not be able to talk about this comfortably. I pried myself off the floor in my room and went to a therapist that specialized in helping survivors of sexual assaults. After months of talk therapy and some musical therapy I was starting to feel safe again and empowered. I wanted my healing to be a holistic process so in addition to therapy I started to return to spirituality via meditation and connecting with my spirit. It was at this time that I saw that episode of Oprah when I was in a place of pure joy with myself and my body.
A mere few weeks after my first class I was asked to teach and did for two years after. One year into my teaching job I joined a Burlesque troupe. After three years I went solo and I still danced and decided to go back to my roots of using the arts to help women but this time leaving the door open for helping women of all backgrounds who wanted a better connection with their bodies with The Burlesque for Better Body Image Workshop. I developed a one-woman show titled Genesis of Honey: Survivor To Siren, the subtitle tells the story that I survived and eventually opened up enough to become a siren without shame or fear. I am glad to now have the chance to pay my healing forward...
Years before I even knew what Burlesques was, I got my B.S. in Theatre, Dance and Human service. I wanted to go into Expressive Therapy specifically to help women who had survived eating disorders and or sexual assaults; I wanted to pay my healing forward and now using Burlesque that is exactly what I get to do.
The other thing that led me to a pole dancing class was actually a break in. No one was home when someone broke into the basement but it triggered a massive depression. For me this took me back 20years when I survived a trauma that left me with a horrible relationship with my body and feeling it was a place of shame.
There was no one in my life that I could talk to, either I didn't feel comfortable talking to them about this or I knew they would not be able to talk about this comfortably. I pried myself off the floor in my room and went to a therapist that specialized in helping survivors of sexual assaults. After months of talk therapy and some musical therapy I was starting to feel safe again and empowered. I wanted my healing to be a holistic process so in addition to therapy I started to return to spirituality via meditation and connecting with my spirit. It was at this time that I saw that episode of Oprah when I was in a place of pure joy with myself and my body.
A mere few weeks after my first class I was asked to teach and did for two years after. One year into my teaching job I joined a Burlesque troupe. After three years I went solo and I still danced and decided to go back to my roots of using the arts to help women but this time leaving the door open for helping women of all backgrounds who wanted a better connection with their bodies with The Burlesque for Better Body Image Workshop. I developed a one-woman show titled Genesis of Honey: Survivor To Siren, the subtitle tells the story that I survived and eventually opened up enough to become a siren without shame or fear. I am glad to now have the chance to pay my healing forward...
Years before I even knew what Burlesques was, I got my B.S. in Theatre, Dance and Human service. I wanted to go into Expressive Therapy specifically to help women who had survived eating disorders and or sexual assaults; I wanted to pay my healing forward and now using Burlesque that is exactly what I get to do.
