Parma Violet AKA Saffron Shearer-Gare began her foray into performance at the tender age of 13 when she first got up to tap dance as Columbia at a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in her home town of Glasgow. A pot of pink hair dye, a lot of sequins and some twenty years later, she discovered she had been doing Burlesque all those years without knowing it.
After an inspiring trip to TEASEORAMA in San Francisco in 2002, she and her husband Al Palooka decided Blighty needed some more Burly action, there then only being four clubs in the UK. Together they started The Candy Box Burlesque Club in Birmingham in 2006 with house gogo troupe The Candied Heels and the 13 piece Palookaville! Burlesque Orchestra with singer Imelda May. The rest is history. Despite now juggling being a mum to Tallulah Violet, working at the B’ham Hippodrome theatre and making costumes and wedding dresses, Saff still has time for Burly.
Her motto is ” Don’t Dream it, Be it” closely followed by ” Tits and Teeth, everyone!”
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