{"id":1995443,"date":"2009-12-08T02:07:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2009\/12\/08\/la-clique-is-back-in-town\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:23:54","slug":"la-clique-is-back-in-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2009\/12\/08\/la-clique-is-back-in-town\/","title":{"rendered":"La Clique is back in town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/m_49d2c1b3148e913114bdd86192bc4492.jpg\" alt=\"The Clique\" width=\"170\" height=\"212\"\/>Breathtaking, lip-smacking, jaw-dropping&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An ever-changing line-up of some of the best acts in the world, a heady cocktail of decadent circus and subversive London performance-art clubs, with a touch of burlesque and cabaret and a vibrant coat of rock music&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There&#8217;s no words really, to describe La Clique&#8217;s show. Impossible to define and impossible to resist, La Clique has returned to London for the festive season and will perform until the 17th January at The Roundhouse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The New York burlesque scene is represented through the Wau Wau Sisters, performing what the Toronto Comedy Festival has described as &#8220;Filthy Flying Fun&#8221;, while the exquisite Marawa, part Josephine Baker and part Betty Boop, with her leopard print unitard and large pink flower in her hair, mesmerizes the audience with a spectacularly sexy Hula Hoop act.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/m_784b743ef8fdd541aaaea9649ecf730b.jpg\" alt=\"Ursula Martinez\" width=\"170\" height=\"226\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Saying that Ursula Martinez, writer and actress as well as cabaret performer, treads where few performers dare to go, is definitely not a cliched expression to sustain the conversation &#8211; and her cult striptease act, with its mischievous disappearing hanky, is a genuinely jaw-dropping sensation.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Other highlights include The Skating Willers, who spin at breakneck speed on the tiny circular stage in a highly dangerous roller-skating act that leaves the spectator with the feeling they&#8217;ve never seen something like that in their whole life. It&#8217;s also the London debut of mesmerising Sam Alvarez and his incredibly fascinating flying acrobatics performance in chains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/theGalleryLarge_legateauchocolat-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"theGalleryLarge_legateauchocolat\" width=\"300\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/theGalleryLarge_legateauchocolat-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/theGalleryLarge_legateauchocolat.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>On the comedy side, let&#8217;s not forget Mario Queen of the Circus, a leather-bursting reincarnation of Freddie Mercury (well, kinda), the Ikea-country fellow Carl-Einar Hackner and of course Le Gateau Chocolat, an opera-singing diva with an obvious penchant for lycra and tulle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you miss the delightful taste of decadence on your tongue, if it&#8217;s been too long since the last time you took a walk on the wild side, don&#8217;t wait one minute more&#8230; Book your tickets now! And by the way, it&#8217;s strictly age 18+ only.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Laurie Guillem<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>La Clique London at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH &#8211; 20th November 2009\/17th January 2010. For further information and to book tickets, it&#8217;s  <\/em><em>here<\/em><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathtaking, lip-smacking, jaw-dropping&#8230; An ever-changing line-up of some of the best acts in the world, a heady cocktail of decadent circus and subversive London performance-art clubs, with a touch of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30090],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1995443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luxsure-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}