As Vancouver’s Rock ’N’ Roll Flapper, Lola Frost is best known for combining her anachronistic styles of vintage and modern — a true 1920s starlet with a kiss of Ramones grit.

A passionate stripteaser since 2006, her pieces are a sensorial experience to behold, an elegant blend of dance, theatre and fervent striptease.

Performer, teacher and mentor, Lola is co-director of the Vancouver Burlesque Centre and integral member of Sweet Soul Burlesque. She has been internationally recognized at festivals such as Teaseo-Ramma, the Colorado Burlesque Festival, the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival and The Burlesque Hall of Fame, where she was awarded second runner up in the Miss Exotic World competition 2013.

A published and noted writer she has been featured in 21st Century Burlesque Magazine and in Berlesker: Handcrafted Literary Journal along with keeping her own blog with a steadily growing following.

How do you define creativity and apply it in your career?
Creativity is pulse that runs throughout your veins. The essential ingredient to taking thought into acton, the unique way you solve problems or make your projects come to life. In my art form, creativity is applied to expression and presence, to allowing yourself to be seen on all levels in an interesting, artistic, passionate and sexual way.

Where do you find your best creative inspiration?
In the moment. In nature. In the gritty. In the real. In the beautiful and breathless moments you can’t inhale. In observing your environment for the nuances that whisper to you when you least expect it.

What’s the one creative advice or tip you wish you’d known as a young person?
Trust yourself, you already have the answers. You are worthy of showing your creative expression, whatever that might be.

Who would you like to hear speak at CreativeMornings?
Sandra O’Connell: storyteller, writer, lover, visionary.

What was the best advice you were ever given?
Let them love you. Your audience doesn’t want you to fail; don’t hold back, don’t shy away, be bold, be vulnerable, be generous - let them love you.

What did you learn from your most memorable creative failure?
That some ideas and projects, while amazing and meaningful, might be best explored through an alternate medium. I learned you should always try, explore and push, but in the end it might not work. The processes is always valuable despite the outcome.

Photo by David Denofreo.