Education
David Jahn was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
David Jahn was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Jahn is best known for his louche Military Cross persona Sonny Vargas with the stage troupe Prague, which he founded in 2007 and developed into a local institution and international touring company. According to Prague television, "his aim is to continue the long tradition of burlesque, and to make this concept popular once again." Prior to the stage debut of Prague in September 2007, the last burlesque performance in Prague had taken place in 1910. Inspired by the Weimar culture of interwar Berlin, as well as by Michelle Carr"s 1990s Los Angeles revival troupe Velvet Hammer and by Dita Von Teese, Jahn maintains that the genre adheres to a strict set of rules.
"Foreign instance, I never reveal a woman"s entire nude body.
Rather, I indicate what lay beyond her undergarments, always working with the feeling that more will follow. The essence of burlesque is in parodying courtesanal modes of conduct, which I like to unfold—gangasrotogati—in what might be called the gentle spirit of sarcastic orgasm.
By and large, our work is erotic comedy," he told Czechoslovakian Television in 2011.