Java.May.2016

MISS ALEXIS
There is new wave of flash-dancing beauties
inspired by the James Bond and Elvis flicks of
a far-gone era, but these ladies aren’t donning
beehive hairdos and Nancy Sinatra knee-high
boots. We’re talking about the new generation
of go-go girls, led by queen-pin Miss Alexis
(Alexis Borja) of BOSS Entertainment.
Miss Alexis says she hires enthusiastic girls
to dance, go-go style, at all kinds of different
venues, parties and festivals. “It’s sort of like
ambient entertainment for parties,” she says.
“We are usually on stages or on top of bars, freestyling
to whatever music they throw at us.”
Prior to launching BOSS, Miss Alexis danced
with a different Valley go-go crew. She says
she started dancing in high school (Borja is
originally from the Philippines, and moved to the
Valley at age 11). She originally studied ballet,
jazz and studio hip-hop, and after high school
she performed with a hip-hop crew called
Broken Toys.
After college, she took a year off and traveled.
During her travels, Miss Alexis found herself at
an exciting EDM festival—the Electric Daisy
Carnival. She saw modern-day go-gos there in
elaborate costumes, and this inspired her to
want to do it herself.
When she returned to the Valley, she joined
a team but was disappointed by their lack of
costuming. “Three years after I worked for that
company, after pushing and pushing, I had to
just break off. I wanted people to take classes
with me and I wanted to take costuming to a
whole other level. Now that I’m doing my own
thing I can direct the girls the way I want to
direct them,” she says.
When her girls dance at District, for example,
they follow the all-American theme. “We do
a lot of pin-up costumes, pin-up hair and red,
white and blue. Sometimes camo,” she says.
For holidays they do candy cane girls. And
when they dance at Gypsy Bar at Cityspace in
Phoenix, they like to make things interesting
with themes like “dominatrix unicorn.”
BOSS Entertainment recently had a gig at
the Barrett-Jackson auto auction, and they
are preparing for a big show April 30 at Wet
Electric—a stadium event at Big Surf in Tempe,
where Dadalife will headline.
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