Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Adrienne Truscott
- Tanya Gagne
Biography
“Irreverent, sacrilegious, foul-mouthed and uninhibited” The New York Times
Wearing high heels and clutching cocktails, The Wau Wau Sisters, NYC’s bravest and bawdiest burlesque duo and stars of La Clique, straddle the hilarious, break-neck gap between performance art and burlesque.
Suspended in a boozy state of awe and delight,The Wau Wau Sisters careen through a show specially put together for Harvest Festival – full of surprises, dirty songs, double entendres, outlandish circus routines and guilty pop pleasures, whilst always teetering on the brink of a delicious disaster! Think old-time variety with a new twist of the knickers.
The Wau Wau Sisters unique show has shared stages, screens or jail cells with: TV On The Radio, La Clique, Le Tigre, Kiki and Herb, Phillipe Petite, Murray Hill, John Cameron Mitchell, Sandra Bernhardt, Julie Goldman, Dana Gould, Dave Atell, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Lucha Va Voom, Camp Freddy, Metal Skool, Margaret Cho, El Vez, Tom Kenney (Spongebob Squarepants) and many others!
They have made appearances at these fantastic festivals and venues: The World Famous Spiegeltent (Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Edinburgh, NYC), The Mayan Theater (Los Angeles), Olivia Cruise Lines, Feast Fesitval (Adelaide), Soho Bar (London), El Cid (Los Angeles), The Grammys (Los Angeles Staples Center), Irving Plaza (NYC), The Palms (Las Vegas), CBGB's (NYC), The Hammerstein Ballroom (NYC), Joe's Pub (NYC), The Bowery Ballroom (NYC), The Henry Fonda Theater (Los Angeles), The Pica Festival (Portland, OR), Edinburgh Fringe Festival/The Pleasance (Scotland), The Jermyn St. Theater (West End, London) , The Art House & Crown & Anchor (Provincetown, MA), The Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Philadelphia, PA), The Sydney Festival, The Aukland Festival among countless other cities and venues!!
They've been profiled or featured in the pages of: The Village Voice, The New York Post, Time Out New York, The New York Times, Jane Magazine, BUST Magazine, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Metro, VENUS, The Sun, LA Weekly, GONYC, French Vogue, Spectacle and many others!