SOUL OVER MATTER

The first choreographed burlesque piece by Astral Rose, Soul Over Matter,  is danced to a mash of Aretha Franklin’s Daydreaming and Brenna Whitaker’s cover of Black And Gold. The piece starts out with Astral Rose entering a Daydream that hurls her into an existential crisis where she is forced to face her shadows and question her reality tainted by past traumas and societal constructs. Each peel is symbolic of revealing limiting layers of consciousness that keep up her blind to her own Divinity. As she dances and reveals her womanly figure, she remembers her expansiveness and returns to reality walking in the lightness of Spirit.

Astral Rose was born when she entered the Tease Me Burlesque School and was prompted to create her stage persona. Astral has been waiting in the ethers to be revealed for many years, but I had to remain patient as she chose a path of healing from a traumatic past that required her to build discipline and self love. Astral Rose is testament to her transformation out of the darkness, into the light, and into the expansiveness of her Divine Feminine Nature. Astral Rose is new on the burlesque scene, but her soul has danced among the stars for eons with sultry passion, love, and deep reflection. Astral was drawn to burlesque dance because of the art’s honest expression and creative freedom. The unearthing of Astral Rose has merely just begun and she looks forward to honing her style that is revealing to morph philosophical questioning with storytelling choreography to illustrate the human experience.