The legend says that Coney Bow was dancing before she even knew how to walk. She took her first dance class at age seven in her native southern France and has been dancing ever since. She has trained in jazz, contemporary, ballet, musical theatre, lindy hop, vintage jazz, precision dancing, body alignment and Pilates in Montpellier, Paris and New York and added latin to her repertoire when she moved to New Zealand. Coney has been on stage since she was 10 as part of a retro themed youth troupe and became a professional dancer for French revues when she turned 18.

Coney Bow had her first glimpse of Burlesque in Coney Island, New York in 2004. But it's only when she moved to New Zealand that she took her first burlesque lessons in 2008 and dove into the local scene. Fast forward 12 years, Coney has attended workshops and private classes with some of the best in the business (Dirty Martini, Ginger Valentine, Bazuka Joe, Ray Gunn, Kitten & Lou to name a few) and has performed in burlesque and retro events all around Europe, North America and Australasia. She has won the national burlesque competition Grand Tease New Zealand in 2016, was a featured artist at the Lyon Retro Tease Festival 2019 and was crowned Master of Masters at Burlypicks France 2020.

When she is not performing Coney is an accomplished dance, cabaret and wellness instructor. She has trained in body alignment in New York, studied a Masters in dance in Paris and has completed a physical teacher diploma and a Pilates instructor certification in the south of France.

Coney has been teaching cabaret and retro styles since 2006 and has been offering mentoring programs for the past 6 years. She has run her workshops and classes in New Zealand, Canada, Croatia, Italy and France, she was a guest instructor at Lille University in 2019, and was nominated “Favourite Mentor in New Zealand” at the Golden Garters 2017. Coney was a presenter at BurlyCon 2019 and 2020 teaching her “Warm Up 101”, “This is not a chair” and “Body Element: a journey through joint mobility” workshops.

Coney thrives on knowledge sharing and community development. Since she moved back to France in 2017 she has been offering regular classes and workshops with the non profit company Boardwalk Factory, in various cities in the South of France.

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