The Soiled Dove Art Gallery
Browse original works created by the artists of The Soiled Dove Under the Tortona Big Top. Every purchase directly supports the artists who helped bring this world to life.
Meet The Curator: Layil Umbralux
Having grown up backstage with a family of creatives, Layil Umbralux's background of world building and aesthetic immersion engages a refined design sensibility to create inspiring tapestries of color and texture, weaving together the work of local artists in a harmonious and exciting collaboration of media and themes. Participating visual artists are welcomed from up and down the West Coast, gathering an array of talent that blends long time contributors and fresh faces. The thread that unifies them: building a world of suspended disbelief that showcases the color, vibrancy and eclectic styles of visual artists and performers alike. Step through our portal into a reprieve from the mundane, celebrating the talents and skills carefully honed to dazzle and mesmerize, reminding us all that a life without art is not nearly as fulfilling as one that showcases it!
Testimony
'The Soiled Dove' is more than circus or vaudeville revival. It’s beyond your wildest idea of what a burlesque dinner theater could be. It turns the concept of a historical musical like Hamilton inside out and places you in the center of the action. When you enter 'The Soiled Dove' you embark on a journey into a world of wonders that transcends time and space."
MARK METZ - Alameda Sun
What do you get if you cross a Cirque du Soleil acrobat with a Las Vegas showgirl, then have her cut loose to avant-cabaret tunes? A Vau de Vire Society performer, of course! Mike and Shannon Gaines’s bawdy, sophisticated outfit has been titillating Bay Area audiences for a decade... A Vau de Vire show delivers equal measures of eroticism, athleticism, and wit, served up with panache.
SF MAGAZINE
Tantalizing, titillating, terrifying. ‘The Soiled Dove’ is all that and more. Be prepared for an evening of thrills, trills, and toe tapping as circus performers, musicians, and dancers provide a variety of entertainment. And enjoy a sumptuous feast and tasty swill as you absorb the evening’s amusements.
VICTOR CORDELL - ForAllEvents.com
'The Soiled Dove’ spills over with talent and action for those who like their entertainment more lavish and frantic than a three-ring circus.
KEN BULLOCK - Berkeley Daily Planet
Nowhere in the Bay Area can you now see the vaudeville delights that come with a ‘The Soiled Dove’ ticket under the big top circus tent at Alameda Point. It is wild with delightful and sultry singing and dancing, a scrumptious dinner for those who can splurge and, perhaps most important, mesmerizing with acrobatic feats seen only here outside of Cirque de Soleil."
LAURA CASEY - East Bay Times
It is what The Barbary Coast might have been like in someone’s wildest fantasy. It is the sexy, talented, great food version of that era. Guests can expect an engaging evening filled with danger, decadence, circus, and a culinary spread worthy of royalty … a very unique show.
GINA WHITE - AXS
Fans of interactive theater and living history who want to commune with their inner Edwardian in a raucous, Barbary Coast bordello atmosphere need look no farther than Vau de Vire Society’s ‘The Soiled Dove.’ A dinner-entertainment event that’s similar to – but more raunchy and informal – than the late, lamented Teatro ZinZanni.
JEAN SCHIFFMAN - SF Examiner
The Players
Location
The Big Top at Radium Runway
Vau de Vire Entertainment, in collaboration with Radium Presents, is overly excited to announce:
THE BIG TOP at RADIUM RUNWAY.
an open-air arts hub that establishes the area as a cultural destination on the water’s edge of the San Francisco Bay’s Seaplane Lagoon
Connect
2163 Meeker Ave. #292
Richmond, CA 94804
info@thesoileddove.com
415-294-1591
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