So burlesque

[Worriedmumofan8yearoldgirl]

Aibu to think its an art form?

(Just watching itv it's a good documentary!)

ha, LB, link your arms with mine (and borrow my ear trumpet)

So is that all there is to it? You dress up as somebody from the past and take some, but not all of your clothes? Could I just turn up as Spartacus and stop removing bits of gladiator costume?

Not saying it is my opinion or not.... To be honest I still don't know what my opinion is!!!!

But some people could argue that yes it is just a form of stripping, but then the female body could be seen as a form of art.

Don't bash me for saying that please, like I
Said its not necessarily my opinion!

One of our (old friendship group) friends is 'into' burlesque. She seems to think it makes her all risque and that. Also enjoys a bit of faux/lipstick lesbianism (but only when there are men/her dh around to show off to). She's the one that, on her way back from watching a burlesque show in London, had the nerve to be disgusted by someone daring to bf their newborn on the train.

Personally, don't see it as an art form. Just posh stripping.

My ex got his wife into it after the porn and swingers nights

On a personal level she is lovely but the act is dire, especially when he comes on and staples her

Anyfucker I'm now visualising you as looking like the mother from allo allo

Stapling?

worried you would be entirely correct

either that, or I am Mrs Brown personified < hitches droopy stockings and scratches balls >

Staples......

i watched a bit of that hanky panky, i cant see art, i see a crap magic show and taking her kit of to make it better coz no one would watch it otherwise.

I think it's fun and it takes skill to do it well. Art is a subjective term but I could see how burlesque could come into it.

I know a very nice couple who do a burlesque act.

I believe he's usually the Penelope Pitstop type heroine & she's the moustachioed villain roping her dh to the train track.

(I say roping - maybe they use staples!).

Haven't seen any burlesque for years though - there was a brief phase when no goth gig was complete without a bit of tassel-twirling between bands, which made a nice change from staring at roadies' bumcracks.

Then everyone got bored with it.

I am SO glad to find this thread! I just don't get it, it's just fancy stripping is it not? Why do women like it? It's a mystery...

I find it unfunny and done mostly by show offs. But then I am a grumpy fart face.

Me and about 5 friends go to a burlesque evening at the Lowry about three times a year.
It's a brilliant show and very enjoyable.

yes it is an art if done well

It's sexual, it's funny, it is erotic at the same time amusing good burlesque show is varied and very entertaining and strip tease can be an art form too

I was very, very sniffy indeed about Burlesque as a supposed art form, but I got dragged along to a performance in Soho a few years ago by some friends - very much against my better judgement, but I sort of couldn't get out of it without looking really PO, plus we were having dinner first somewhere I really wanted to go, so...

I tried and tried to hate it but......it was brilliant. It was a very professional, high quality production in a beautiful old theatre, and I was completely amazed at how good it was. The artistes were very good singers and dancers with great comic timing. They were certainly not the tacky, seedy, silicone enhanced lap dancers I was expecting. They had more in common with ballet dancers than lap dancers.

It was not what I had feared expected at all; it was thoroughly enjoyable, funny, slick, highly artistic. I don't often like to say I am wrong, but in this case I was wrong.

And the other thing I loved was the audience. I expected a bunch of leery, sad, peculiar men. How wrong was I? The crowd was eclectic in terms of age and type, but there were lots of super cool hipster/dandy types, people dressed up in amazing costumes, a roughly equal mix of men and women, quite a few gay people, fat boring housewives from Essex, that would be me then oh all sorts. I loved it.

*and so cliched all totalyl 40s/50s styled

can NO ONE change the era?*

well that is what it is supposed to be about burlesque dancers of THAT era

there was 1 on BGT at the weekend along with a chair dancer both equally bleurgh imo

But you can INVENT and improvise

so we havn't cleared up the stapling then that isn't burlesque that is something sooooo different

But you can INVENT and improvise

aye i suppose stapiling perhaps

The trouble with Burlesque though,is that when there is a sudden resurgence of popularity of something there are too many people around doing it very, very badly. And if that is your only experience of it then you will think it is a pile of god-awful crap.

I'm thinking stripping isn't just stripping otherwise people like my mum wouldn't have been to see a show at the Moulin Rouge along with thousands of other hetrosexual women. They are talented dancers with an imaginative show.
And I believe are not allowed to be surgically enhanced so a good representation of real- albeit fit- bodies.

I think it's become very popular with the whole retro/vintage fashion thing going on at the moment.

The thing about it that a lot of people just don't seem to get, is that it comes from a tradition of comedy and parody. Most of the performers are actually taking the proverbial.

Oh ,here come the downers ! at what point does anything a woman does cross from "female empowerment" to male titalation? Dita Von Tease ,anyone? imo, its fun/classy ,if done "right"