Triplettes de Belleville
The Dolly Sisters
The Beginning
Aila Baila (founder) and Baroness JoJo began working together as The Bee's Knees in 2004. They met through dancing Lindy Hop socially at London's many swing dance clubs. Inspired to start The Bee's Knees after seeing the triplettes from the film 'Bellville Rendezvous', sister dance act: The Dolly Sisters, and from watching old films of showgirls and flappers dancing, they have been performing their slick, vintage and eccentric dances all over UK and Europe since then.
Gig highlights
The Bee’s Knees have performed at a wide range of events, from
festivals such as Glastonbury, Bestival, Winchester Hat Fair, Lattitude, Glade, Electric Picnic, Lovebox, Lattitude, Edinburgh (La Clique) and the Brighton Fringe (Spiegle Tent); to private bookings at Claridges, The Metropoliton Hotel, The Gerkin, Tower of London, Ascot Racecourse, Wilton’s Music Hall and the
De La Warr Pavilion; for businesses including Orient Express, Tesco, Ryan Air, Goldman Sachs, Habitat, Disney, ICA, Barbican, The Curzon and the BFI, and at premier parties for Atonement and Australia.
The duo also dance regularly on the UK and European cabaret/burlesque scene at venues such as Café de Paris, Café Royal, Madam Jojo’s, Volupte lounge, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, The Tassel Club, Micca Club, Connie Douglas, Royal Vauxhall Tavern, Brighton Komedia, Pigalle, BAC and the Whoopee Club. Also participating in community events (including schools’ workshops, fairs and tea dances) for Camden, Hackney, Brent, Tower Hamlets, Sheffield and Hastings Council. These fine flappers have appeared on screen in the BBC Culture Show and Gardeners World as well as being the protagonists of a short film commission by photographer Tom Hunter for Brit Doc about the dance scene in Hackney (forthcoming).
