New York Asian Burlesque Festival

The New York Asian Burlesque Festival brings a rotating slate of performers to LPR (Le Poisson Rouge) for a live night that sits between concert energy and stage revue, framed here in a Rock/Pop setting. Since its beginnings in New York, the festival has functioned as a public ledger of Asian and Asian American presence in an art form that has often treated that presence as novelty. It foregrounds authorship, lineage, and contemporary identity through performance rather than statement. The critical point is simple: the festival’s impact comes from consistency, not spectacle.